Militarized Landscapes: Artist Talk with Stelios Kallinikou + Tom Seymour Evans

Wie verändern militärische Anlagen unsere Umwelt. Stelios Kallinikou und Tom Seymour Evans gehen dieser Frage anhand ihrer Arbeit nach. Kallinikou betrachtet in seinen Fotografien die britische Militärbasis Akrotiri auf Zypern. Er zeigt die Schnittstelle zwischen ökologisch wertvollem Feuchtgebiet und militärischer Infrastruktur. Tom Seymour Evans ergänzt die Perspektive durch seine Recherchen zu Testgeländen und Stützpunkten. Gemeinsam analysieren sie, wie sich Orte unter Überwachung durch Fotografie und Text erfassen lassen.

In this Artist Talk, Cypriot artist Stelios Kallinikou and British writer Tom Seymour Evans discuss the (in)visibility of military presence, taking the example of Akrotiri in southern Cyprus—a British military base that is also an ecologically significant wetland. For several years Kallinikou has been exploring a landscape in his photographs and films, where nature, military infrastructure, and geopolitical interests intersect. Evans, too, focuses on sites of military power. For his book This Is Not An Exercise (The Bodley Head, 2027), he spent several years visiting test sites, training grounds, and military bases. Together, Kallinikou and Evans discuss landscape as a site of geopolitical negotiations and how photography and writing can engage with places that are under surveillance, difficult to access, or hidden.