Heritage at Risk - Agros
Heritage At Risk was a collaborative and participatory project initiated by the artist Márcio Carvalho and presented in the framework of Xarkis festival 2022/23 in Agros, Cyprus. According to Unesco, "Heritage At Risk" is a concept created to preserve objects such as buildings, statues, monuments or memorials consider to be the carriers of culture. Carvalho’s project starts with the believe that “perhaps what is at risk is the knowledge that was not embed in those material cultures, a knowledge that belongs to people, that is passed through oral traditions”. Thus, the project deals with Agros flora and how to use art methodologies and its forms of conviviality to help citizens to sustain and keep native knowledge about plants and healing systems alive.