The joy of creation, the joy of imagining what nobody else can bring to you. And then the urge of sharing your dreams, bringing to others what is your dream. The dream in you that is your reality but that cannot be seen by others unless they, too, can touch it.
Nader Khalili, 2003, Racing Alone (p.118), Cal-Earth Press
ABOUT
My name is Mina Kouvara (Koo).
I am an artist and researcher with a background in architecture.
My interests focus on investigating the potential of vernacular practices and non-Western cosmologies towards a paradigm change. For the last few years I have been investigating the traditional arts & crafts and technologies of remote mountain regions. I am also practicing Taoist internal arts (martial arts, qigong, guqin).
I am affiliated with the research collective P2P Lab. And, I am a founding and former member of the NGO Boulouki, focusing on the traditional building techniques.
During the lockdown in 2020 we created the artistic duo Quokka with my sister(soul), artist Alkistis Voulgari. Together we make art for here & now, and certainly for fun, to speak about social, political and environmental matters.
We follow three principles: resist perfection - express from the heart - enjoy the process. We dream of a world where adults learn from children, and envision a substantial repopulation of the countryside. We fight desperation by following the words of Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi) and dare to imagine a universal community that has recovered its disturbed relationship to Nature, History and Beauty.
Access
to Landscape, Knowledge
& Culture are fundamental
to my approach in Life,
Art & Science.
I would be happy to hear from you!