Assistant professor Vicky Pericleous’ practice-let research work, investigates her long interest in the Production of Space and Perceptions of Place, in respect to Post and Neo-Colonial Situations, extending into ideas and plausibilities of Meta-Geographical Relations and Cultural Imaginaries. Her work moves within interdisciplinary areas and diverse media. It includes site-specific installations, happenings and performances in off gallery venues, involving the urban and socio-political landscape. It encompasses a variety of means and mediums, such as collages, drawing, installations, site-specific interventions, mixed media, performace and video. In both her research and practice, a variety of media, agents and mechanisms are being employed to examine how different modes of production, affect the image’s perceptions and its reading(s). These creative processes distant themselves from traditional art disciplines, while establishing critical proximities and reflections in relation to them, in errant manners. The idea of the fragment as well as notions around spatio-temporal speculations are negotiated throughout her artistic oeuvre. An open and ongoing interrelationship of her practice as an artist and as an academic in the pedagogy of the Arts has determined, informed and shaped her critical and creative input in both areas for the past twenty years. Through this interconnected relation she has pushed forward over the years, imaginative exchange of ideas, concepts, knowledge production -and their dissemination-, bringing forth synergies between students, cultural producers and cultural bodies; implementing expertise, as well as develop imaginative positions on an array of relevant academic, administrative and socially engaged contexts.She has acted out as the first co-ordinator of the MA Contemporary Art Practices Program of the Fine & Appied Arts Department of Frederick University.
Vicky Pericleous has been an active member of multiple artistic and academic bodies, art-led research communities and has been actively engaged in artistic platforms, art collectives and art associations, both locally and internationally.
To expand on the most significant, she has been a member of the Noise of Coincidence Group, an active art platform for Exhibitions, Theory & Discussions, and Collaborations. Noise of Coincidence Group has acted out as a diverse cultural network of artists from different countries (Cyprus, France, Serbia, Netherlands, Greece etc). Its intense research and art practice has been mainly focused in producing a pluralistic cultural body and space from artists to artists in and beyond the Mediterranean. Several exhibitions, actions, happenings, symposiums, presentations and talks took place in Cyprus, the Netherlands, Serbia and Iceland, Mexico thus, developing strong art and critical (resistance) network across communities of artists and cultural bodies. Pericleous initiated the international research project UNCOVERED (2010-2013), curated by Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou, -the project included site-specific research/exhibition/book publication/seminar/panel discussion, activating art & theory cultural synergies and collaborations amongst highly established cultural producers of the international art scene, from various countries and cultural foundations. The project was presented in important cultural institutions such as Salt, Istanbul and Sharjah Biennale and was supported by cultural institutions The Open Society Foundation, Faros Trust Foundation. (please refer to http://basaksenova.com/pdf/UNCOVERED.pdf), bringing forth critical cultural proximities. Pericleous has been engaged in the development of European Funded Programs, (includingHorizon and Creative Europe programs, closely collaborating in inter-institutional manners with professionals, academics, cultural bodies and communities. Currently she is the coordinator of work package 3, Artistic and Creative Expression. Creative Europe: EMPACT (Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain), coordinated by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). She has also been involved in the Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest, a two-year research project (2017–2019) [Exhibition/Publication], curated by Sarah Tuck and Louise Wolthers, Yiannis Toumazis and Imran Ahmad and hosted by The Hasselblad Centre, Gothenburg & Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University, Sweden, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan & the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Cyprus. The project was funded by The Hasselblad Centre, Gothenburg & Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University, Sweden. She has been an active member of the international project UNACCOMPANIED – In the context of a three year program integrated the dissemination activities of the European Cultural Learning Network (ECLN), in collaboration with "Hope For Children". UNCRC Policy Center (ECLN partner organisation in Cyprus). Funded by ECLN and hosted by “Hope For Children” UNCRC Policy Center and supported The Cyprus Library and the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Cyprus Republic . Pericleous co-founded and, co-organised and co-run the Visual Arts Lab of the Arts and Communication Department, Frederick University (2008-2022). Currently she has developed an academic synergy and collaboration between her taught units in the Fine Art Department of CUT University, and the Painting Studio of the Fine Art Academy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the head of the Studio and assistant professor Vasilis Zografos.
FAR 360 _ Creative Studio Art Practice I
FAR 361 _ Creative Studio Art Practice II
FAR 460 _ Creative Studio Art Practice III
FAR 461 _ Creative Studio Art Practice IV: Final Year Project and Exhibition