Modus Operandi– In Quest of a Different Way „არტისტერიუმი“

თანამედროვე ხელოვნების საერთაშორისო გამოფენა

„Modus Operandi – განსხვავებული გზის ძიებაში“

4-9 ნოემბერი,თბილისი,2008 წელი

Forum-----------------------------------Director Iliko Zautashvili

Curators Magda Guruli Lika Mamatsashvili Nino Tchogoshvili

Coordinator/Supervisor Tamar Lordkipanidze

Public promotion Natia Murachashvili Sophia Kilassonia

Organization Centre for Global Coordination of Culture and Art Centre for Visual Researches Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport of Georgia Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum ‘Karvasla’

Exhibition-----------------------------------Exhibition concept Iliko Zautashvili Magda Guruli Archil Turmanidze

Logistic technical services Kote Jincharadze Vakhtang Gvetadze Gela Kintsurashvili Luka Zautashvili

Parallel projects Baia Tsikoridze Karaman Kutateladze Guela Tsouladze Rusudan Oat

Catalogue-----------------------------------Main concept Magicon Group

Concept design, layout SYNTHESIS ad

Translation Magda Guruli Servane Laine

English proofreading Ian Joyce Guy Harrington Archer

Website-----------------------------------SYNTHESIS ad Eto Gabashvili

Aknowledgments-----------------------------------Thanks to the following people: Werner Wöll Joel Bastenaire Lena Milosevic Cynthia Whittlesey Paul Doubleday Naira Gelashvili Shota Iatashvili Patricia London Ante Paris Marina Khatiashvili Valeri Kocharov Nino Sturua Guram Tsibakhashvili Mariam Kveselava Tamta Gochitashvili Natia Mikeladze-Bakhsoliani Maia Kipshidze Nino Gagua Nino Mariamidze

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ARTISTERIUMInternational Exhibition of Contemporary Art‘Modus Operandi – In Quest of a Different Way’

The Ministry of Culture,Monuments Protection andSport of Georgia

Goethe-InstitutGeorgien

Dumas French Cultural Centre, Tbilisi

Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum ‘Karvasla’

Tbilisi State Academy of Art‘Academy+’ Art Gallery

Art Villa Garikula New Art Union

BritishCouncil inGeorgia

Culture Ireland

ARCI Art Gallery

The Caucasian House of Tbilisi

Embassy of theUnited States,Georgia

საქართველოს კულტურის პოლიტიკის ერთ-ერთ მნიშვნელოვან მიმართულებას თანამედროვე ხელოვნების მხარდაჭერა და მისი პოპულარიზაცია წარმოადგენს.

თბილისში თანამედროვე ხელოვნების საერთაშო-რისო ფორუმის ჩატარება განპირობებულია ვიზუა-ლური კულტურის განვითა რების ტენდენციების, შე-მოქმედებითი პოზიციების მრა ვალფეროვნებისა და საქართველოს მსო ფლიო სახელოვნებო კონტექსტში წარმოჩენის აუცილებლობით. მით უფრო დღევანდელ დღეს რუსეთის აგრესიის შედეგად შექმნილ მძიმე პოლიტიკურ ვითარებაში მყოფი საქართველო მეტ საერთაშორისო მხარდაჭერას საჭიროებს.

ამ დღეებში ჩვენს დედაქალაქში თანამედროვე ხელოვნების ფორუმის „არტისტერიუმი“-ს ფარგლებში გაიმართება გამოფენები ქართველი და მსო ფლიოს 16 ქვეყნიდან მოწვეული ცნობილი კურა ტორებისა და მხატვრების მონაწილეობით. ახალგაზრდა ხელოვ-ანთათვის ფორუმში მონაწილეობა შესაძლებელს ხდის ინ ფორმაციული ჰორიზონტის გაფართოებასა და კონ ტაქტების გაღრმავებას. ასევე აძლიერებს ინტელექტუალურ მუხტს, შემოქმედებით იმპულსს და სახავს ერთობლივი სახელოვნებო პროექტების განხორციელების პერსპექტივებს.

საქართველოს კულტურის, ძეგლთა დაცვისა და სპორტის სამინისტრო მიესალმება ფორუმში მო-ნაწილე ხელოვანებს – მხატვრებსა და კურატორებს, არტკრიტიკოსებს, ფორუმის თანაორგანიზატორებსა და პარტნიორ ორგანიზაციებს და უსურვებს მათ შემდგომ შემოქმედებით წარმატებებს.

ნიკოლოზ ვაჩეიშვილი

საქართველოს კულტურის,ძეგლთა დაცვისა და სპორტის მინისტრი

კაცობრიობის ისტორიის მნიშვნელოვან ეტაპებზე, განვითარებისა და პროგრესის წინაპირო-ბას მოულოდნელი გადაწყვეტილებები ქმნიდნენ. დღეს, სამწუხაროდ, ცხოვრების წესი და ურთიერთობები მუდმივი კონფრონტაციის პირობებში ყალიბ დება. წინ მხოლოდ დაპირისპი-რებებისა და წინააღმდეგობების გზით მივიწევთ.

მხატვრები ის ადამიანები არიან, რომლებიც საზოგადოებას განსხვავებულ რეალობას თავა-ზობენ, სადაც ყველაზე მოულოდნელი დასკვნები და გადაკვეთებია შესაძლებელი. ხელოვნება, როგორც მენტალური და ფსიქიკური რეფლექსია გარემო სამყაროზე, მოდელირებას უკეთებს ე.წ. აღმოჩენილ რეალობას. განსხვავებული გზის ძიება, ადამიანის მოღვაწეობის ყველა სფეროში, ხელს უწყობს წინააღმდეგობების გადალახვას და ახალი შესაძლებლობების გამოვლენას.

ღონისძიების სათაური ინსპირირებულია იგივე სახელწოდების არტ-კლუბით, რომელიც, თბილისში, გასული საუკუნის 10-ან წლებში, ჟურნალ „არსთან“ მისივე შენობაში ფუნქციონირებდა. კლუბი „არტისტერიუმი“ ცნობილი იყო ავანგარდული გამოფენებით, პოეზიის საღამოებით, ლექციებით, მრავალფეროვანი სახელოვნებო აქტივობით, რომლებიც თანადროულ მოდერნისტულ და კუბო-ფუტურისტულ ტენდეციებს ეხმაურებოდნენ.

გამოფენის თემა „Modus Operandi – განსხვავებული გზის ძიებაში“ მიზნად ისახავს ისეთი პლატფორმის შექმნას, სადაც სხვადასხვა ქვეყნებიდან მოწვეული მხატვრები და კურატორები შეხვედრებისა და ურთიერთგაცვლის საფუძველზე შემოქმედებითად გამოიკვლევენ საერთოს და განმასხვავებელს, გაეცნობიან თბილისის არტ-სცენას. ღონისძიება ხელს შეუწყობს მონაწილეთა შორის ღია, უშუალო დიალოგის ჩამოყალიბებას, თანამედროვე ხელოვნების პოპულარიზაციას და მონაწილეთა შორის ხანგრძლივი შემოქმედებითი კონტაქტების დამყარებას.

„განსხვავებული გზა“ არტისტერიუმის ძირითადი თემაა. ხანგრძლივი დროის განმავლობაში თანამედროვე ხელოვნებაში გარკვეული წესები, კანონები და სქემები ჩამოყალიბდა. ძალზედ მნიშვნელოვანია, ის, რომ დღეს ეს წესები ინერგება ქვეყანაში, სადაც ახალი სოციალურ-პოლიტიკური გარემო ყალიბდება. საქართველო, ისევე როგორც მთელი სამხრეთ კავკასია, მსოფლიო თანამედროვე ხელოვნების რუკაზე დღეს საკუთარი ადგილის ძიებაშია. განსხვავებული მიდგომების ძიება დაგვეხმარება აღმოვაჩინოთ მხოლოდ ჩვენთვის დამახასიათებელი პრეზენტაციის, არტ-პრაქტიკისა და ურთიერთობების გზები, რომლებიც უკვე არსებულ, პოზიტიურ გამოცდილებაზე იქნებიან დამყარებული. ამდენად, „განსხვავებული გზის“ იდეა მრავალფეროვნე-ბას, არა-სტანდარტულ გადაწყვეტილებებსა და შემოქმედებითი თვითგამოვლენის განსხვავებული გზების ძიებას გვთავაზობს.

ილიკო ზაუტაშვილი

თანამედროვე ხელოვნებისსაერთაშორისო ფორუმი

„არტისტერიუმი“დირექტორი

The support and popularization of contemporary art is the one main direction of the cultural policy in Georgia.

The necessity of presenting Georgia in the world’s art con-text, creative diversity of Georgian artists and the latest ten-dencies of contemporary visual art defined the importance of hosting the International Forum of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi. Today more than ever, bathed in this complex political situation brought by the Russian aggression, Georgia needs strong international support.

Artists and curators from 16 countries will be holding the exhibitions and presentations for five days within the frame-work of the International Forum Contemporary Art ‘Artiste-rium’. It is even more important for the younger generation of artists. It will produce a new creative impulse, will help to extend an artistic horizon and will provide new contacts for new perspectives and future projects.

The Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport of Georgia greets all the artists, curators, art-professionals, organizers and partners participating in the forum and wishes them a great creative success.

Nikoloz Vacheishvili

Minister of Culture,Monument Protection andSport of Georgia

„Modus Operandi – განსხვავებული გზის ძიებაში“

Table of Contents

Throughout human history, unanticipated decisions have created the conditions and motivation for progress. Nowadays society remains in a state of permanent confrontation. We move forward pushing off or repelling each other. In such a way, we communicate, compete, play and live.

Artists are the people who offer an experimental reality in which the most unexpected assumptions and intersections are possible. Art as the sphere of a mental (psychical) reflection on the surrounding reality models a different, detected reality. A quest for an alternative, different way in all spheres of human activity may stimulate the overcoming of contradictions to reveal new possibilities.

‘ARTISTERIUM 2008’ is composed of international art exhibitions, projects, individual art activities, conference, educational and cultural programs.

The Title of the event refers to the art club functioning at the art magazine ‘ARS’ in the 10-s of the 20th century in Tbilisi. The club was famous for the avant-guard exhibitions, poetry evenings, lectures and other artistic activities responding to the modernist and cubo-futuristic tendencies of the time.

The theme of the exhibition ‘Modus Operandi – in quest of a different way’ aims at creation of an exchange platform where International artists are brought together to explore artistic differences whilst celebrating commonalities. Participating artists and curators will meet and exchange and international art professionals will become familiar with Tbilisi’s art-scene. It is intended that the event will contribute to the development of an open dialogue, to the popularization of contemporary art and culture and to establish long-term and fruitful rela-tions between the participants.

‘Different Way’ is a proposed thematic focus for ‘ARTISTERIUM’. During a prolonged, rules, patterns, and systems in contemporary art have been established. It is especially important to realize when such rules appear and are being rooted in the new countries, with new political and social formations. Georgia as well as the whole of the South Caucasus is in the process of defining its place on the world contem-porary art map. By searching different approaches, we try to discover ways of presentation, practice and relations that are based upon positive experience. The idea of ‘Different way’ is to promote diversity, the search for non-standard decisions and the revelation of creative potential.

Iliko Zautashvili

Director of theInternational Forum of Contemporary ArtARTISTERIUM

Georgian National Museum,Tbilisi History Museum ‘Karvasla’---------------------------------------------------------------------Yeshim Agaoglu 10Chingiz Babaev 12Breda Beban 14Isabel Becker 16Tina Bepperling 18Nino Chubinishvili 20Nika Machaidze 20Cló, Art from Ireland 22 Bernadette Cotter 22 Bob Rasmussen 22 Francis Hegarty 23 Andrew Stone 23 Ian Joyce 24 Oona Hyland 24 Sarah Lewtas 25 Ian Gordon 25 Kevin Mc Gee 26Teimur Daimi 28Dalia Dudenaite 30Misha Gogrichiani 32Mamuka Japharidze 34Temur Javakhishvili 36Kote Jincharadze 38Gela Kintsurashvili 40Ira Kurmaeva 42Levan Chogoshvili 44Niko Lomashvili 46Natalia Mali 48Miriam Nabarro 50Zura Narmania 52Patricia London Ante Paris 54Video Art from Poland 56 Anna Molska 56 Pawel Althamer 57 Artur Zmijewski 58 Kuba Bakowski 59Prasto 60Koka Ramishvili 62Maka Razmadze 64Ana Riaboshenko 66Caravansarai dans/in Karvasla 68 Gregoire Philipidhis 69 Alexander Yterce 70 Arnaud Contreras 71 Bruno Fournier 72 Florence Gonot 73 Francois Daireaux 74 Khaled Khafez 75

Shalva Khakhanashvili 76 Sitki Kosemen 77Nino Sekhniashvili 78Sabina Shikhlinskaya 80Murtaz Shvelidze 82Kote Sulaberidze 84George Sumbadze 86Thea Telia 88Vato Tsereteli 90Niko Tsetskhladze 92Guram Tsibakhashvili 94Neriman Polat, Evrensel Belgin 96Archil Turmanidze 98Iliko Zautashvili 100Luka Zet 102Martin Zet 104

Goethe-Institut, Georgien---------------------------------------------------------------------Simone Westerwinter 108

ARCI Art Gallery---------------------------------------------------------------------Waist Deep in the Big Muddy 112Adriane Colburn 114Yoon Lee 115Bill Daniel 116David Maisel 117David Gurman 118Mark Thompson 119Sheila Ghidini 120Ledoh 121Walter Kitundu 122Anthony Cedras 123

‘Academy+’ Art Gallery---------------------------------------------------------------------Jean Dupuy 126Emile Laugier 127Guela Tsouladze 128

Collateral Projects---------------------------------------------------------------------Pascal Leopold 132Justyna Mielnikiewicz 134Art Villa Garikula 136David Chikhladze 138Newart Cafe 139

Index of the Artists[recent exhibitions, events, awards] 140

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10 11Yeshim Agaoglu What is good in War2003, installation, photographs of various sizes, paper

index page: 140 White tracks of the Military Jets2007, installation, photographs, a4

12 13Chingiz Babaev My hi-story2008, photo installation, three b/w prints on canvas, 45X72 cm

index page: 140 it is a brief history of my life, which i call ‘hi-story’. it consists of three black-n-white photo prints. With the help of familiar signs, each of them represents three different epochs. the black open mouth is the symbol of hunger for freedom and truth. a background of any system is similar and familiar. that’s why the shouts are silent…

14 15Breda Beban the Most Beautiful WoMan in gucha2007, two-screen film

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16 17Isabel Becker espresso, asparagus and green2008

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„000000“, „Black“],[„000080“, „Navy Blue“],[„0000C8“, „Dark Blue“],[„0000FF“, „Blue“],[„000741“, „Stratos“],[„001B1C“, „Swamp“],[„002387“, „Resolution Blue“],[„002900“, „Deep Fir“],[„002E20“, „Burnham“],[„002FA7“, „International Klein Blue“],[„003153“, „Prussian Blue“],[„003366“, „Midnight Blue“],[„003399“, „Smalt“],[„003532“, „Deep Teal“],[„003E40“, „Cyprus“],[„004620“, „Kaitoke Green“],[„0047AB“, „Cobalt“],[„004816“, „Crusoe“],[„004950“, „Sherpa Blue“],[„0056A7“, „Endeavour“],[„00581A“, „Camarone“],[„0066CC“, „Science Blue“],[„0066FF“, „Blue Ribbon“],[„00755E“, „Tropical Rain Forest“],[„0076A3“, „Allports“],[„007BA7“, „Deep Cerulean“],[„007EC7“, „Lochmara“],[„007FFF“, „Azure Radiance“],[„008080“, „Teal“],[„0095B6“, „Bondi Blue“],[„009DC4“, „Pacific Blue“],[„00A693“, „Persian Green“],[„00A86B“, „Jade“],[„00CC99“, „Caribbean Green“],[„00CCCC“, „Robin‘s Egg Blue“],[„00FF00“, „Green“],[„00FF7F“, „Spring Green“],[„00FFFF“, „Aqua / Cyan“],[„010D1A“, „Blue Charcoal“],[„011635“, „Midnight“],[„011D13“, „Holly“],[„012731“, „Daintree“],[„01361C“, „Cardin Green“],[„01371A“, „County Green“],[„013E62“, „Astronaut Blue“],[„013F6A“, „Regal Blue“],[„014B43“, „Aqua Deep“],[„015E85“, „Orient“],[„016162“, „Blue Stone“],[„016D39“, „Fun Green“],[„01796F“, „Pine Green“],[„017987“, „Blue Lagoon“],[„01826B“, „Deep Sea“],[„01A368“, „Green Haze“],[„022D15“, „English Holly“],[„02402C“, „Sherwood Green“],[„02478E“, „Congress Blue“],[„024E46“, „Evening Sea“],[„026395“, „Bahama Blue“],[„02866F“, „Observatory“],[„02A4D3“, „Cerulean“],[„03163C“, „Tangaroa“],[„032B52“, „Green Vogue“],[„036A6E“, „Mosque“],[„041004“, „Midnight Moss“],[„041322“, „Black Pearl“],[„042E4C“, „Blue Whale“],[„044022“, „Zuccini“],[„044259“, „Teal Blue“],[„051040“, „Deep Cove“],[„051657“, „Gulf Blue“],[„055989“, „Venice Blue“],[„056F57“, „Watercourse“],[„062A78“, „Catalina Blue“],[„063537“, „Tiber“],[„069B81“, „Gossamer“],[„06A189“, „Niagara“],[„073A50“, „Tarawera“],[„080110“, „Jaguar“],[„081910“, „Black Bean“],[„082567“, „Deep Sapphire“],[„088370“, „Elf Green“],[„08E8DE“, „Bright Turquoise“],[„092256“, „Downriver“],[„09230F“, „Palm Green“],[„09255D“, „Madison“],[„093624“, „Bottle Green“],[„095859“, „Deep Sea Green“],[„097F4B“, „Salem“],[„0A001C“, „Black Russian“],[„0A480D“, „Dark Fern“],[„0A6906“, „Japanese Laurel“],[„0A6F75“, „Atoll“],[„0B0B0B“, „Cod Gray“],[„0B0F08“, „Marshland“],[„0B1107“, „Gordons Green“],[„0B1304“, „Black Forest“],[„0B6207“, „San Felix“],[„0BDA51“, „Malachite“],[„0C0B1D“, „Ebony“],[„0C0D0F“, „Woodsmoke“],[„0C1911“, „Racing Green“],[„0C7A79“, „Surfie Green“],[„0C8990“, „Blue Chill“],[„0D0332“, „Black Rock“],[„0D1117“, „Bunker“],[„0D1C19“, „Aztec“],[„0D2E1C“, „Bush“],[„0E0E18“, „Cinder“],[„0E2A30“, „Firefly“],[„0F2D9E“, „Torea Bay“],[„10121D“, „Vulcan“],[„101405“, „Green Waterloo“],[„105852“, „Eden“],[„110C6C“, „Arapawa“],[„120A8F“, „Ultramarine“],[„123447“, „Elephant“],[„126B40“, „Jewel“],[„130000“, „Diesel“],[„130A06“, „Asphalt“],[„13264D“, „Blue Zodiac“],[„134F19“, „Parsley“],[„140600“, „Nero“],[„1450AA“, „Tory Blue“],[„151F4C“, „Bunting“],[„1560BD“, „Denim“],[„15736B“, „Genoa“],[„161928“, „Mirage“],[„161D10“, „Hunter Green“],[„162A40“, „Big Stone“],[„163222“, „Celtic“],[„16322C“, „Timber Green“],[„163531“, „Gable Green“],[„171F04“, „Pine Tree“],[„175579“, „Chathams Blue“],[„182D09“, „Deep Forest Green“],[„18587A“, „Blumine“],[„19330E“, „Palm Leaf“],[„193751“, „Nile Blue“],[„1959A8“, „Fun Blue“],[„1A1A68“, „Lucky Point“],[„1AB385“, „Moun-tain Meadow“],[„1B0245“, „Tolopea“],[„1B1035“, „Haiti“],[„1B127B“, „Deep Koamaru“],[„1B1404“, „Acadia“],[„1B2F11“, „Seaweed“],[„1B3162“, „Biscay“],[„1B659D“, „Matisse“],[„1C1208“, „Crowshead“],[„1C1E13“, „Rangoon Green“],[„1C39BB“, „Persian Blue“],[„1C402E“, „Everglade“],[„1C7C7D“, „Elm“],[„1D6142“, „Green Pea“],[„1E0F04“, „Creole“],[„1E1609“, „Karaka“],[„1E1708“, „El Paso“],[„1E385B“, „Cello“],[„1E433C“, „Te Papa Green“],[„1E90FF“, „Dodg-er Blue“],[„1E9AB0“, „Eastern Blue“],[„1F120F“, „Night Rider“],[„1FC2C2“, „Java“],[„20208D“, „Jack-sons Purple“],[„202E54“, „Cloud Burst“],[„204852“, „Blue Dianne“],[„211A0E“, „Eternity“],[„220878“,

„Deep Blue“],[„228B22“, „Forest Green“],[„233418“, „Mallard“],[„240A40“, „Violet“],[„240C02“, „Kilamanjaro“],[„242A1D“, „Log Cabin“],[„242E16“, „Black Olive“],[„24500F“, „Green House“],[„251607“, „Graphite“],[„251706“, „Cannon Black“],[„251F4F“, „Port Gore“],[„25272C“, „Shark“],[„25311C“, „Green Kelp“],[„2596D1“, „Curious Blue“],[„260368“, „Paua“],[„26056A“, „Par-is M“],[„261105“, „Wood Bark“],[„261414“, „Gondola“],[„262335“, „Steel Gray“],[„26283B“, „Ebony Clay“],[„273A81“, „Bay of Many“],[„27504B“, „Plantation“],[„278A5B“, „Eucalyptus“],[„281E15“, „Oil“],[„283A77“, „Astronaut“],[„286ACD“, „Mariner“],[„290C5E“, „Violent Violet“],[„292130“, „Bas-tille“],[„292319“, „Zeus“],[„292937“, „Charade“],[„297B9A“, „Jelly Bean“],[„29AB87“, „Jungle Green“],[„2A0359“, „Cherry Pie“],[„2A140E“, „Coffee Bean“],[„2A2630“, „Baltic Sea“],[„2A380B“, „Turtle Green“],[„2A52BE“, „Cerulean Blue“],[„2B0202“, „Sepia Black“],[„2B194F“, „Valhalla“],[„2B3228“, „Heavy Metal“],[„2C0E8C“, „Blue Gem“],[„2C1632“, „Revolver“],[„2C2133“, „Bleached Cedar“],[„2C8C84“, „Lochinvar“],[„2D2510“, „Mikado“],[„2D383A“, „Outer Space“],[„2D569B“, „St Tropaz“],[„2E0329“, „Jacaranda“],[„2E1905“, „Jacko Bean“],[„2E3222“, „Rangitoto“],[„2E3F62“, „Rhino“],[„2E8B57“, „Sea Green“],[„2EBFD4“, „Scooter“],[„2F270E“, „Onion“],[„2F3CB3“, „Governor Bay“],[„2F519E“, „Sapphire“],[„2F5A57“, „Spectra“],[„2F6168“, „Casal“],[„300529“, „Melanzane“],[„301F1E“, „Cocoa Brown“],[„302A0F“, „Woodrush“],[„304B6A“, „San Juan“],[„30D5C8“, „Turquoise“],[„311C17“, „Eclipse“],[„314459“, „Pickled Bluewood“],[„315BA1“, „Azure“],[„31728D“, „Calypso“],[„317D82“, „Paradiso“],[„32127A“, „Per-sian Indigo“],[„32293A“, „Blackcurrant“],[„323232“, „Mine Shaft“],[„325D52“, „Stromboli“],[„327C14“, „Bilbao“],[„327DA0“, „Astral“],[„33036B“, „Christalle“],[„33292F“, „Thunder“],[„33CC99“, „Sham-rock“],[„341515“, „Tamarind“],[„350036“, „Mardi Gras“],[„350E42“, „Valentino“],[„350E57“, „Jag-ger“],[„353542“, „Tuna“],[„354E8C“, „Chambray“],[„363050“, „Martinique“],[„363534“, „Tuatara“],[„363C0D“, „Waiouru“],[„36747D“, „Ming“],[„368716“, „La Palma“],[„370202“, „Chocolate“],[„371D09“, „Clinker“],[„37290E“, „Brown Tumbleweed“],[„373021“, „Birch“],[„377475“, „Oracle“],[„380474“, „Blue Diamond“],[„381A51“, „Grape“],[„383533“, „Dune“],[„384555“, „Ox-ford Blue“],[„384910“, „Clover“],[„394851“, „Limed Spruce“],[„396413“, „Dell“],[„3A0020“, „Toledo“],[„3A2010“, „Sambuca“],[„3A2A6A“, „Jacarta“],[„3A686C“, „William“],[„3A6A47“, „Killarney“],[„3AB09E“, „Keppel“],[„3B000B“, „Temptress“],[„3B0910“, „Aubergine“],[„3B1F1F“, „Jon“],[„3B2820“, „Treehouse“],[„3B7A57“, „Amazon“],[„3B91B4“, „Boston Blue“],[„3C0878“, „Windsor“],[„3C1206“, „Rebel“],[„3C1F76“, „Meteorite“],[„3C2005“, „Dark Ebony“],[„3C3910“, „Camouflage“],[„3C4151“, „Bright Gray“],[„3C4443“, „Cape Cod“],[„3C493A“, „Lunar Green“],[„3D0C02“, „Bean „],[„3D2B1F“, „Bistre“],[„3D7D52“, „Goblin“],[„3E0480“, „Kingfisher Daisy“],[„3E1C14“, „Cedar“],[„3E2B23“, „English Walnut“],[„3E2C1C“, „Black Marlin“],[„3E3A44“, „Ship Gray“],[„3EABBF“, „Pelorous“],[„3F2109“, „Bronze“],[„3F2500“, „Cola“],[„3F3002“, „Madras“],[„3F307F“, „Minsk“],[„3F4C3A“, „Cabbage Pont“],[„3F583B“, „Tom Thumb“],[„3F5D53“, „Mineral Green“],[„3FC1AA“, „Puerto Rico“],[„3FFF00“, „Harlequin“],[„401801“, „Brown Pod“],[„40291D“, „Cork“],[„403B38“, „Masala“],[„403D19“, „Thatch Green“],[„405169“, „Fiord“],[„40826D“, „Viridian“],[„40A860“, „Chateau Green“],[„410056“, „Ripe Plum“],[„411F10“, „Paco“],[„412010“, „Deep Oak“],[„413C37“, „Merlin“],[„414257“, „Gun Powder“],[„414C7D“, „East Bay“],[„4169E1“, „Royal Blue“],[„41AA78“, „Ocean Green“],[„420303“, „Burnt Maroon“],[„423921“, „Lisbon Brown“],[„427977“, „Faded Jade“],[„431560“, „Scarlet Gum“],[„433120“, „Iroko“],[„433E37“, „Armadillo“],[„434C59“, „River Bed“],[„436A0D“, „Green Leaf“],[„44012D“, „Barossa“],[„441D00“, „Morocco Brown“],[„444954“, „Mako“],[„454936“, „Kelp“],[„456CAC“, „San Marino“],[„45B1E8“, „Picton Blue“],[„460B41“, „Loulou“],[„462425“, „Crater Brown“],[„465945“, „Gray Asparagus“],[„4682B4“, „Steel Blue“],[„480404“, „Rustic Red“],[„480607“, „Bulgarian Rose“]

espresso, asparagus and green

Nowadays, a lot of activity seems to be dedicated to the invention of color names. Programmers use crazy names to identify colors of enterprises (‘Porsche’ is a skin-color), wall-colors and other technical colors. Sometimes names are rather serious. I want to make clear that I did not make up these names. I found out the RGB-values of the reproductions and then looked for the corresponding names in the color-lists. I selected the ones I liked. In the end, I interpret art works. I refer to what people associate with colors not only on the level of a reference to real things but also on the sound level of language.

18 19Tina Bepperling georgian Wallpaper1994-2008, installation, video projection, wooden benches

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georgia, april 1994 – dur-ing my first journey, one could still clearly see the traces of the coup and civil war in the streets of tbilisi…

I had a nightmare: A woman veiled in black appeared, scuf-fling slowly along my bed with horrible groaning.

georgia, august 2008 – from the perspective of a central eu-ropean: in svaneti, we heard the news of the russian invasion. the nightmare was turning into reality… a conflict over territo-rial claims, over geographic – and soon to be revealed – also psychic borders. immediately, the evacuation of all foreign-ers commenced, the diplomatic machinery ran full-speed. given the panic, an understandable re-flex…

By and by, these small wood-en seating constructions caught my attention, the most made out of a wood plank and a tree stump, lopsided but neverthe-less functional. To understand bircha (keep up-to-date), I need-ed to travel several times across Georgia, from east to west, north to south. Every time, I saw some men or women gathered here or there along the streets – some seated, others squatting – be-ing lost in history, absorbing the trauma… stoically. … however, i felt i just evacu-ated myself from europe, and now i should go back? Back to a world i deemed empty and ex-hausted for a long time despite its material dominance and pow-er. i chose to stay. diplomatic protection in exchange for ndoba (trust). Just consider me naïve!

tbilisi, september 2008

20 21Nino Chubinishvili, Nika Machaidze Journey2008, video animation, dVd, loop

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22 23Cló, Art from Ireland index page: 140 Bernadette Cotter,Bob Rasmussen

idir2006, performance installation for ionad cultúrtha, Baile Mhuirne, co. cork, ireland

the word idir means between: the space and time between. in this collaboration between artists of different disciplines, we are drawn especially to the power of Gobnait and her influence on us. We go to her shrine, to her well, and draw inspiration and strength from that powerful place, a place apart, a place between worlds. We visit naomh aban’s grave, gougane Barra, and the many holy wells and sacred sites around Muskerry in our at-tempts to communicate with the ‘other’ heavenly sphere and with our own inner World. Bernadette ní choitir, Bob rasmussen, eibhlín ní lionáird, ferghus Ó conchúir, Bernadette iglich, Bríd cranitch, iarla Ó lionaird & chris hurley.

Francis Hegarty,Andrew Stone

orienteer [a Z, daWn to dusk]2000, video projection, a commission for Birmingham in association with the ikon gallery

Much of our work represents transformed versions of public spaces, where the aim is a rendering of the source, which is revelatory in some way. Digital video/audio editing, and techniques of staging and presentation make it possible to suggest such revelations in a fleeting way. this is appropriate since the work often alludes to {im}possibilities or desired transformations. We want to suggest the manner in which intimations, sensations or imaginings might arise in a given location.

24 25Ian Joyce, Oona Hyland

art of naVigation1997-2007, international collaborative project, installation view at the hugh lane Municipal gallery of Modern art

the art of navigation is a visual arts project conceived as a european journey: the title is a transposition of a medieval manual entitled, the arte of navigation, 1561, Martin cortes; trans richard eden {1521 – 76}.

Sarah Lewtas,Ian Gordon

trasnu2005, project documentation, artists in residence exchange supported by ealaín na gaeltachta

26 27Kevin Mc Gee cealla dearg/cealla Bana2007, Madghie hughie eoghan scholarship

a singular and driven form of individuality dedicated to image and object making. Being more unsure than ever, as to what art is, helps in the making of things that we are trying to make. now as then, not fully knowing, makes it easier to realise those formative creative impulses.

28 29Teimur Daimi idyll2008, color video with sound, dV/dVd, 12’

index page: 140 under coVer2002, color video with sound, dVd, 6’58”

30 31Dalia Dudenaite difference BetWeen VerBena and rosMarin sMell2007, video projection, loop

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32 33Misha Gogrichiani BoB Marley in second-hand2006, oil on canvas, 80X140 cm

index page: 140 press conference of a hoMeless Man2006, oil on canvas, 110X90 cm

34 35Mamuka Japharidze naVi-niaVi2008, video, dVd, 0’20”, loop

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36 37Temur Javakhishvili dreaM of russian politician2004, object, bedroom slippers, the map of Georgia, 43Х27Х12 cm

index page: 140 untitled2005, photograph, 40Х60 cm

38 39Kote Jincharadze glass house2008, object, iron, glass, 80X80X180 cm

index page: 141 politics die when a war breaks out. interests become obvious. the mechanisms of total control unveil. the world gets similar to a glass house. Millions of dwelling houses lose the status of a ‘fortress’ and become transparent as an aquarium.

40 41Gela Kintsurashvili point of VieW2008, object, 21X29X30 cm

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42 43Ira Kurmaeva self-conception2007, photo series, 40X60 cm

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44 45Levan Chogoshvili 84 years2008, mixed media

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ქველმოქმედთა ფონდებს, ბიზნესმენებს, მთავრობის წევრებს

მიმართვა

მოგახსენებთ, რომ 2003 წლის 15 ივნისს ვენეციაში იხსნება თანამედროვე ხელოვნების ბიენალე, რომელიც საერთაშორისო სახელოვნებო სამყაროში ავტორიტეტულ ფორუმად ითვლება და მრავალ საერთაშორისო სახელის მქონე მხატვრისათვის არტისტული კარიერის წარმატებულ დასაწყისად იქცა. იგი

ისეთივე მნიშვნელობისაა მხატვრობაში, როგორც კანის, ვენეციისა თუ ბერლინის კინოფესტივალები! ეს ის მთავარი ფესტივალია, რომელიც ხელოვნების, ბიზნესის, სარეკლამო საქმის წარმომადგენლები მუდამ ესწრაფვიან, როგორც მსოფლიო მნიშვნელობის მოვლენის ეპიცენტრს.

ხელოვნებათმცოდნე ვიქტორ მაზინი ჟურნალში “ХЖ” (№34/35, 2000) wers, “Биеналле в Венеции отнюдь не просто смотр того, что происходит в сегодняшней визуальной культуре. Венецианский биеннале – мероприятие в ряду других, таких как Уимблдон, Каннский кинофестиваль, гонки Формулы-1’, церемония вручения Оскаров, матчи Лиги чемпионов.”ბიენალეზე მხატვრები წარმოდგენილნი არიან ცალკეულ ნაციონალურ პავილიონებში და მათი ნამუშევრების ექსპონირება ქვეყნის სახელით ხდება. ამ ათწლეულების განმავლობაში უამრავმა ქვეყანამ (მათ შორის, ამ ბოლო წლებში, რუსეთმა და სომხეთმა) საკუთარი სტაციონალური პავილიონები შექმნა ან შეიძინა. ერთ-ერთ სამწუხარო გამონაკლისს ამ მხრივ საქართველო წარმოადგენს, რომელსაც არც პავილიონი აქვს და არც შესაძლებლობა მუდმივად მიიღოს ბიენალეში მონაწილეობა.

ამ უკანასკნელი თორმეტი წლის განმავლობაში, 70 წლიანი საბჭოთა პერიოდის შემდეგ ვენეციის ბიენალეში მონაწილეობის მიღება შესძლო მხოლოდ სამმა ქართველმა მხატვარმა. ეს მათთვის მხოლოდ იმიტომ გახდა შესაძლებელი, რომ ისინი საზღვარგარეთ მოღვაწეობენ და იქ შესძლეს დაფინანსების მოპოვება,

რომელიც საკმაოდ სერიოზულ თანხას შეადგენს. 1999 წელს ერთ-ერთი მათგანი დააფინანსა “მერსედეს-ბენცმა” და ახლაც მას “კრაისლერი” აფინანსებს. დანარჩენებიც უცხოური ფონდების მიერ დაფინანსდნენ.

წელს მე, საქართველოში მცხოვრებ მხატვარს, საშუალება მომეცა მონაწილეობა მივიღო ამ ცნობილ ფორუმში. საქართველოს მხრიდან დაფინანსება, ჩემი აზრით, უმნიშვნელოვანესი აქცია იქნება მორალური თვალსაზრისით. ამასთან, ეს არის ერთ-ერთი აუცილებელი გზა ქართული კულტურისა და ხელოვნების ინტეგრაციისა საერთაშორისო სახელოვნებო სივრცეში და ქვეყნის პრესტიჟის ამაღლების საშუალება.

რა თქმა უნდა, ჩვენ არ ვითხოვთ ბიენალეს მთელი ღირებულების თქვენს მიერ დაფარვას. ნებისმიერი თქვენს მიერ გაღებული თანხა დიდი დახმარება იქნება პროექტის განხორციელებისთვის.

ცნობისთვის მოგახსენებთ, რომ მაისის შუა რიცხვებში უკვე უნდა მოხდეს მოლაპარაკება მიენალეს ადმინისტრაციასთან საექსპოზიციო სივრცის გადასახადის თაობაზე.

განმცხადებლის ხელმოწერა ------------------------------ თარიღი 2003

P.S. განაცხადი უკვე გაგზავნილია სამ მხატვარზე. ერთის ნამუშევარი უკვე ბიენალეს კატალოგშიცაა დაბეჭდილი. იტალიური მხრიდან ფინანსური თვალსაზრისით დიდი დათმობაა შემოთავაზებული სივრცის დასაქირავებლად

46 47Niko Lomashvilidigital landscapes – dehierarhiZationfrom the project ‘defundamentalization, dehierarchization, deterritorialization, decentralization, depersonification’, 2005-2008, print, color pencil, 7 pieces, 35X35 cm

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48 49Natalia Mali sono straniera/i aM a foreigner2006, photographic series, 6 c-prints, 60X80 cm

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50 51Miriam Nabarro Moonscape guerella 12008, digital image, 240X50 cm

index page: 141 Moonscape guerella 22008, digital image, 240X50 cm

52 53Zura Narmania takes2007, 4 pieces, inject print on aluminum, 43,3X80 cm

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The pictures represent takes of the film that show X-ray check-up of baroque paintings in a scientific lab. Subtitles are used to describe the off-screen comments of the scientists. X-rays usually show the oldest layers of a painting. in ‘takes’, pop-culture images (Japanese Manga and comics) suddenly appear under the much older baroque layer. it creates a time inversion and critically approaches the subject of original-ity. In a way, it is a parody on scientific discourse, a parody on evidential rightness.

54 55index page: 141Patricia London Ante Paris three contriButions on coMMunicatiVe action (after Jurgen haBerMas) 2008

56 57Video Art from Poland Anna Molska tanagraM2006/2007, video projection, dVd, 5’1”

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The presentation of four films, which is proposed by the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, is a small part of the gallery’s collection that has been cre-ated since 1990. What is more, it includes the works of the most representative of contemporary Polish artists. In more or less direct ways, the films relate to the theme of the exhibition ‘Modus Operandi – in quest of a different way’.

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In ‘Tanagram’ by Anna Molska, the transformation of classical geometrical forms into a sphere of reality constitutes the body of the film. When the main characters are for example playing with chinese tangram, the vision is accompanied by alexandrov choir, whose highlight its connection to the black square of kazimir Malevich.

Pawel Althamer the Video clip2004, video projection, dVd, 7’51”

pawel althamer works with young people on the margins of society. in a ‘Video clip’ he questions them as much about their prospects for life, plans, dreams than the image they have of the world or the values they believe in. the awareness of such information (prospects for life, etc.) very often places us in a specific position towards other people and decides on our openness and tolerance.

58 59Artur Zmijewski our songBook2003, video projection, dVd, 13’30”

‘Art is a fierce fight for human consciousness’ – as Artur Zmijewski claims. His film ‘Our Songbook’ deals in particularly with the passing of time but it also gives us an opportunity to look at polish – Jewish relations from a different perspective.

Kuba Bakowski the flag2002, video projection, dVd, 4’38”

‘the flag’ of kuba Bodzianowski is a humoristic commentary on a phenomenon that occurs in a social sphere like the appropriation of national symbols by specific groups of society.

60 61Prastoplay on clay2007, installation, ceramic plaster object 130X38 cm, video, 4’2”,music, rachmaninov, piano concerto no. 3

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62 63Koka Ramishvili War froM My WindoW1991-92, 12 piece photo series, b/w photographs on aluminum, 50X60 cm

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64 65Maka Razmadze froM annals to anal2008, video, dVd, loop

index page: 141 annals – history, books, folios... anal... the history of mankind – from annals to anal. from logocentrism to biocentrism. from theorization to body practices. the video represents compatibility (or incompatibility) of a human body (more exactly an anal) with annals, with the world history, with ‘big narrations’ in general. a postmodern man witnesses a death of the latter.

66 67Ana Riaboshenko sWeet kills2008, installation, looped slide show on candyfloss

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68 69Caravansarai dans/in Karvasla index page: 141-142 Gregoire Philipidhis Madeleine2008, photograph on aluminum, 60X50 cm, detail

70 71Alexander Yterce in the sky of shanghai2005, photograph, 100X57 cm Arnaud Contreras postcard to Jack kerouac

2008, photographic series, 50X35 cm

72 73Bruno Fournier the Jailphotograph, 2007, 50X50 cm Florence Gonot inc landscape

2005, photograph, 100X70 cm

74 75Francois Daireaux surface2006, video dVd, 15’51”, loop Khaled Khafez unity

2007, photograph, 2007, 50X40 cm

76 77Shalva Khakhanashvili Boarder line2007, b/w photograph, 60X40 cm Sitki Kosemen ottoMan eMpire

2007, 4 pieces, photograph, 50X40 cm

78 79Nino Sekhniashvili portraitswood, printer’s ink

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80 81Sabina Shikhlinskaya dangerous red2008, video, dVd, 3’00”

index page: 142 in the monotonous silence of everyday life there exists a danger of violence, aggression and death. at any moment, the static may be turned into dynamics, quietness - into catastrophe.

82 83Murtaz Shvelidze diploMat2007, oil on canvas, 43X46 cm

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84 85Kote SulaberidzetBilisi-sochi, the train that left foreVer...1999-2000, installation, 4 paintings, gouache, oil, cardboard, 45X75 cm each, train label 12X117 cm

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in my childhood, i often traveled to sokhumi on the tbilisi-sochi train. it was a typical soviet train: sleeping cars, compartment carriages and reserved seats. departure time was 10:10 p.m. despite the fact that the train was not comfortable at all, i loved to sleep in it as a child. i would listen to the train’s creaky sounds while the shaking wagons advanced towards the seaside. at dawn, you could see the sea from the window. We woke up very early to look at the sea. this train left forever...

86 87George Sumbadze polygon2007, photo series, 6 pieces, a3

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88 89Thea Telia diarieson going project, artist’s book, mixed media

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90 91Vato Tsereteli khMaura2007, photograph, 100X130 cm, edition 1/3

index page: 142 daVos2001, photograph, 100X130 cm, edition 1/3

92 93Niko Tsetskhladze no coMMent2008, photo installation, 3 color photographs, 50X60 cm

index page: 142 criMinal tV2008, video, dVd, loop

94 95Guram Tsibakhashvili genetic MeMory2008, unlimited photo series, 70X60 cm

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96 97Neriman Polat, Evrensel Belgin lesson: deMocracy2008, digital photographs, 150x180 cm

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lesson: democracy

=nationalism=conservatism=socialism=liberalism= ideologies, as the representation of generally accepted truths, have the main function of homogenizing differences and concealing contradictions and relations of interest. ideologies share this same blood that constitutes their essence, derive from each other and multiply themselves in our individualities. this single dimensional reality created by ideologies mutilates from the beginning our relationship with the world around us. this is how we accept our desperation and even if we don’t make peace with this complex system that seems never-changing, we learn to live it with the threat of isolation, oppression, confinement and othering: ‘To emphasize the complexity of the circumstances frees us from the responsibility of reacting’ (Slavoj Zizek).

We are all being called to unite in the ideal of democracy even though it does not have a single significant achievement across the world. And when we realise that this ideal that is eternal, above all circumstances and subjectivities and the most suitable rule for humankind, that equips us with these pedals (voting, claiming justice, taking part in a demonstration, calling for a strike etc.), is the one that mutilates us in the first place, when we face this menacing and sinister, pitch-black darkness that hides behind it, will we go on pressing the same pedals as we used to?

For over a year now, Neriman Polat, Evrensel Belgin and Deniz Erbaş have shared the experience of producing, working and thinking together within numerous art collectives. For the first time in this exhibition, they have developed their capacity of creating a unique work out of their shared sensibilities, intuitions and visual language. conscious of the fact that it is impossible to say anything new, that it is futile to search for or suggest a way out or an alternative, preserving their belief in standing together and knowing that the only tool that remains in our hands is to repeatedly expose the system and the order of things, they have produced this lesson in democracy.

deniz erbas curator

translation: Nazım Dikbas

98 99Archil Turmanidze ready for laBeling2008, c print, 32X60 cm

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100 101Iliko Zautashvili caucasian Manifesto2008, color photographs, 90X60 cm

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102 103Luka Zet reVelation2008, video, dVd, 3’, loopindex page: 142

104 105Martin Zetask your neighBor 2006, installation view, exhibition ‘shadows of humor’, Moscow‘is the crucifiXion only a second of an eMBrace?’

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‘in autumn 2006, czech artist Martin Zet came to Moscow to participate to the ‘shadows of humor’ exhibition of czech and slovak contemporary art (curator William hollister). against a background of deteriorated russian-georgian relations, a mass deportation of georgian citizens, having lived many years in russia before the repressions took place in Moscow at that time. Martin could not remain indifferent to the open racism and discrimination endured by the georgians. he refused to show the works he had originally prepared for the exhibition and proposed a new one. the work consisted of an intricate inscription on a wall, written with wavy georgian letters. By means of answering the visitors’ recurrent question, ‘what does it mean?’ Martin simply pointed to the title of the work saying ‘ask your neighbor’. Visitors were left feeling confused and ashamed as not a single ‘neighbor’ was left in Moscow that could tell what the inscription meant.’

alena Boikacurator, czech republic

the Barrel of holy Water2008, object, 160 liter barrel, holly Water

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112 113Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

Co-curated by Laurie Lazer, Co-Director of The Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, California and Lydia Matthews, Academic Dean

/Professor at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City

Co-curated by Laurie Lazer, Co-Direc-tor of The Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, California and Lydia Matthews, Academic Dean /Professor at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City

In the 1960s American folk musician Pete Seeger wrote a song entitled “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” about a platoon of soldiers in training for World War II. Their captain ordered them to continue wading downstream through the middle of a mud-dy river until they found themselves up to their necks, realizing they were potentially at a point of no return as they watched their commander drown. Seeger’s ballad became a legendary and controversial anti-war statement of the Vietnam era. It functioned as a metaphor for that critical moment when you can either rise up out of a dangerous scenario or become en-gulfed by it forever. It was also a prophecy of doom for foolish authoritarian leaders around the world.

At the precise moment of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, we find ourselves at a “waist deep” tipping point on numerous fronts. We have hope that the direction of history will soon change. In the spirit of contemplating a range of aesthetic strate-gies for action and healing amidst dire cir-cumstances, we have assembled an inter-generational group of cross-disciplinary artists, many of whom have immigrated to North America. Most live in cities on the country’s east and west coasts and look across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as part of their daily experience. Some com-bine aesthetic forms from their cultural roots with more recent influences, while others create works to help them empa-thize with cultural conditions in other parts of the world. Still others make art as a criti-cal meditation on abstract systems that dominate and often disintegrate contem-porary life. In the face of our omnipres-ent military, ecological and economic ca-tastrophes--including seemingly endless brutal wars, devastating climate changes,

crumbling global stock markets, and the daily psychic disorientation caused by colonial legacies and globalization--these artists offer a variety of creative responses to a tenuous yet urgent state of being.

Adriane Colburn collects geographical and historical data to produce meticulous cartographies of vast oil and gas pipelines that traverse the planet, including Geor-gia’s Caspian oil-line. A twelfth generation American who was born and raised in Ver-mont, she recently joined a team of scien-tists in Antarctica to study the landscape the polar region, now drastically changing due to global warming. Connecting topo-graphical locations with their subterra-nean infrastructures, she constructs deli-cately hand-cut paper maps, reconfigured in lace-like installations filled with light and shadows. Both informative and ambigu-ous, they allude to highly engineered yet largely invisible superstructures—the very mechanisms that enable excessive con-sumer lifestyles, which in turn decadently fuel ecological disasters and military con-flicts throughout the world.

Yoon Lee works in a much more sub-jective manner, but also addresses both visible and invisible realities in her paint-ings. She regularly chronicles the visually assaulting flux that she experiences in her daily life as an internationally active con-temporary artist. Born in Pusan, Korea and raised in San Diego, California, her work at first appears elegant and exuberant, but when viewed more closely, it becomes evident that her seemingly spontaneous marks are actually thoroughly mediated. Lee layers computer-generated and pho-tographic images onto sheets of glossy translucent mylar, painstakingly executing traces of fast-moving freeway systems, railroads or engineering structures. Her glossy, layered marks evoke the hyper-speed at which information and electronic signals travel through space, making vis-ible the forces of globalization that shape our urban environments.

Both Bill Daniel and David Maisel have used their cameras to represent disasters, but tell stories through vastly different visu-al vocabularies. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit and the levees protecting the city of New Orleans broke. Daniel, a Texas-born, self-trained itinerant filmmaker and photogra-pher and a New Orleans resident at that time, captured bleak images of the city’s devastation, where over 800,000 people--predominantly African Americans--were forced to evacuate their homes. Many lost their lives, loved ones and livelihood in the largest displacement of people since the great Dust Bowl migrations of the 1930s.The world watched the media coverage in horror, shocked by the disaster’s magni-tude, the political neglect that had caused the urban infrastructure’s failure, and the slow, inept response of the government’s Homeland Security recovery efforts. Dan-iels shot his images with an 8x10 camera with 16 mm film and developed large scale, low-tech black and white images that echo the horror, confusion and haphazardness of this tragic series of events, whose rami-fications continue today.

David Maisel visually investigates an-other water-related disaster zone: the in-famous Owens Valley in California, one of the world’s most polluted sites. Unlike Daniel, however, Maisel produces scrupu-lously controlled, color-saturated, visually luscious images through his creative pro-cess. Flying in a small airplane high above the toxic desert landscape, he shoots aer-ial views of the devastated scenery below, revealing a distressing history that is the stuff of California legend: a story of en-gineers, politicians, and big land owners working together in the beginning of the 20th Century to divert water to the rapidly growing desert city of Los Angeles, thus generating a thriving agricultural industry and a monumental environmental disaster in the process. Maisel’s images are simul-taneously spectacular, seductive and hor-rifying, manifesting a contemporary ver-sion of the sublime.

David Gurman also monitors human influence on remote landscapes. He taps and fuses various technologies to bet-ter understand another dangerous des-ert location: namely, the experience of men and women engaged in combat in Iraq. Whether grafting surveillance photo-graphs of Washington D.C. and Baghdad onto one another through the visual cre-ation of a singular Tigris/Potomac river, or downloading soldiers’ field recordings off the internet in order to generate ripples from within a water tank caused by real-time gun shots and IED explosions in Iraq, Gurman startles the viewer into recogniz-ing how delicately connected the digital and physical worlds can be. His medita-tive work demonstrates the way natural substances like water can actually register traumas occurring on the other side of the globe—a form of visualizing empathy.

Mark Thompson is a sculptor, bee-keeper, and legendary art teacher who often uses his body to investigate actual as well as metaphorical relationships be-tween cultural and natural communication systems. In this videotaped performance, Thompson mimics abstract hand signals used by commodities brokers to buy and sell financial futures on the Chicago Stock Exchange. Bees slowly swarm around Thompson’s hands, which have been saturated with bee pheromones, and the two communication systems compete for prominence until the biologically de-termined instincts of the bees inevitably overcome the culturally constructed logic of their human counterpart. Through this enigmatic and mesmerizing video, the artist reveals his distrust of this highly abstracted and non-sustainable model of capitalist exchange, describing it as “a speculative form of farming and tending that had little direct relationship to any-thing real.” The work is particularly poi-gnant at this historic moment when people are witnessing the monumental collapse of the American economy, a profoundly disruptive phenomenon now reverberat-

ing across the globe.

Like Thompson, Sheila Ghidini uses her body as a vehicle to counteract the mal-aise of urban alienation. Rather than com-municating with nature, in these works she focuses on deepening her local social networks. By asking friends and acquain-tances who have immigrated to her neigh-bourhood to teach her their favourite in-digenous dances, she has learned a range of traditional movements from many cul-tures, including Native American, Israeli, Italian, and Chinese. Using a pigment that relates to the cultural origins of the dance (for example, a spice like turmeric spice or cinnamon), she covers the bottoms of her feet and performs the dance on paper, producing a Rorschach-like image that in-vites the viewer to literally step into some-one else’s bodily experience.

Ledoh also uses his body to evoke nar-ratives through multi-media performances. He immigrated to the United States to flee the ethnic cleansing of his Ka-Ren people at the hands of the Burmese military dic-tatorship, and later trained in Japan under Butoh Master Katsura Kan, a member of the radical 1970s collective BYAAKOSHA. During the social upheaval and rapid West-ernization of Japan following World War II, Butoh emerged as an avant-garde dance practice that offered both a new means of expression and a fundamentally different way of life in post-Atomic-bomb Japan. At once grotesque and humorous, Butoh art-ists explore issues such as decay, devasta-tion and the loss of nature. Having directly experienced both brutal oppression and the new immigrant’s archetype of America as a land of freedom, Ledoh’s new work uses sustained tension, explosive punc-tuations and expansive tempos to suggest how violence is created through the cumu-lative effect of constant low-grade threats and small-scale manipulations.

Walter Kitundu creates sculptural in-stallations and original musical instru-

ments that navigate the boundary between live and recorded performance. Born in Tanzania and raised in the midwestern city of Minneapolis before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area, his objects and performances lure the viewer into an inter-action that defies sculptural expectations and offers new sonic realities. Kitundu believes that the physical properties of a record are a natural link to the exploration and interpretation of the world around us. His elaborate hand built turntables have been powered by the wind and rain, fire and earthquakes, birds, light, and the force of the ocean’s waves and tides. Fus-ing traditional African stringed instruments with hip hop culture’s turntable technolo-gies, he pays homage to Asian, African and African American cultures that were once colonized and marginalized, charting a new hybrid form that is “both/and” rather than “either/or.”

Anthony Cedras also synthesizes cul-tural traditions and musical genres through his approach to accordion, harmonium, keyboard and guitar. Born in Cape Town, South Africa but based in New York, he has toured and recorded throughout the world as a longstanding member of Paul Simon’s band, as well as with Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Ziggy Marley, Henry Threadgill, Milton Nascimento, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cassandra Wilson, Gigi and Jonathan Butler. Before joining Paul Simon during his Graceland tour, Cedras traveled throughout the world performing as an anti-Apartheid cultural ambassa-dor for “Nelson Mandela’s People” in the Amandla cultural ensemble in exile. Like Pete Seeger, Cedras has always under-stood and deployed the power of music to unite people so that they feel something deeply, dance together, and ultimately take other forms of action. Like all the other artists in this exhibition, his creative practice represents a compelling way to imagine various exit strategies out of The Big Muddy.

114 115Adriane Colburnpiped in, hooked on2008, detail, paper, aluminum, ink and latex paint 274X1128X91 cm (variable dimensions)

index page: 143 Yoon Lee suBatoMic VerVe, #92007, acrylic on frosted mylar, 76X107 cmindex page: 143

116 117Bill Daniel house, car, neW orleans2005, black/white photograph, 107X157 cmindex page: 143 David Maisel

lake proJect #1, #6, #11, #142001-2002, c-print, 76,2X76,2 cmindex page: 143

118 119David Gurmanreflector proJect: 33.20n, 43.55e – 2006installation: tigris-potomac ikonos satellite View – 2008, fuji crystal archive prints, 112X244 cm. IPOD/MP3 player, head phones, overhead projector, subwoofer, amplifier with frequency filter, head phone amplifier, acrylic, aluminum. Field recording made by members of 3rd Battalion first Marines – in operation phantom fury al fallujah, iraq – 11.14.2004

index page: 143 Mark Thompson the siXth sense (closing a sale)2005, digital installation, dVd with sound, 13’00”index page: 143

120 121Sheila Ghidini sun dance2001, turmeric on paper, 109X173 cmindex page: 143 Ledoh

colorMeaMerica2007-08, performance documentation, 57’00”, ledoh & salt farm with perry hallinan

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122 123Walter Kitundu Blue phono harp2003, wood, string, electronics, turn table, 67X122X7 cm

Vision oVer people: a string that Binds2008, musical performance with guitar, accordian, trumpet and vocalsindex page: 143 Anthony Cedras index page: 143

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index page: 143 Emile Laugier hiMalaya2008, installation

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132 133Pascal Leopold reportage froM georgia, august2008, slideshow

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134 135Justyna Mielnikiewicz reportage froM georgia, augustarmy vehicle with russian soldiers, most likely irregulars took a quick drive out from gori, approximately 1 km in towards tbilisi. august 14, 2008

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136 137Art Villa Garikula garikula 1st international art festiVal2008

138 139David Chikhladzeheru-ra-ha el Mundo2 series of the theater of lexicon, Version 4, Margo dekorableva kinotheatre ensemble, directed by david chikhladze. for artisteriuM, club 33a

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A Conceivable and a commentary, as the extended edges of the play main text body, normally is considered as only a prerequisite or the reflection of the stage production; not so often these parts are symbolically used in a pre- or post-performance time. this project deals with immanent open-endedness of the text phenomena, taking the theory as the play source while emphasizing dominant visual communication in theater poetics in the new frame of our internet and Jpeg narration times.

Newart Cafe artists to artists2007-2008, films by Oleg Timchenko and Misha Shengelia, Producer, Rusiko Oat

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Georgian National Museum,Tbilisi History Museum ‘Karvasla’-------------------------------------------------------Yeshim AgaogluLives and works in Istanbul, Turkey

2008, 3rd International Festival of Contemporary Art, Kappadokia, Turkey; Fabrica art workshop, Genoa, Italy; 2007, 6th Korean-Turkish Exchange Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey; Artist Residency Program, Dresden, Germany; 2006, International Caravansarai Festival, Heartgallery, Paris, France; 2005, 5th Experimental International Artists Meeting, Zbaszyn, Poland; Poetry books published: Purple Secret (2007), Yitik Ulke Publications, Istanbul, Heaviness of the Roses (2007), Baku, Azerbaijan.

Chingiz BabaevLives and works in Baku, Azerbaijan

2008, Oh, International Public Art Symposium and Workshop, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic; Sketches, drawings, paintings and photos, (solo), Verona, Italy; 2007, OMNIA MEA, the Pavilion of Azerbaijan, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy; 2006, Transfusion, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland; The Third International Ceramic Tile Triennial (Elite-Tile 2006) Museum of Modern Art (MAM), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; 2005-2006, ‘Border Dialogues’, the Barents Art Triennial, Neiden, Kirkenes (Norway); 2005, The Tile Project, International Project, Destination: The world, Public Art, USA – Azerbaijan.

Breda BebanLives and works in UK

2008, The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha, Lightbox, Tate Britain, London, UK; Breda Beban Nights, Visninsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway; 2007, Galerie Aline Vidal, (solo), Paris, France; Zoo Art Fair, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK; Video_DUMBO, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Centre, New York, US; 2006, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, (solo), Rijeka, Croatia; personal cinema presenaiton, Cinemateque, Split, Croatia; 2005, Insert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia; Premieres, Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US; 2004, Strangers to Ourselves, 201 St John Street, London, UK; Mario Flecha Gallery, (solo), Jafre, Spain; 2003, Little Films to Cry To, (solo), Peer, London, UK; A Century of Artists, Film in Britain, Tate Britain, London, UK.

Isabel BeckerLives and works in Vienna, Austria

2008, ussische Originalversion, Schauraum, (solo) curated by Gerald Zahn and Matthias Haydn, Vienna; 2007, exactly without - Venice, Gallery Spiazzi, (solo), Venice, Italy; Theodor Körner Art Price, Austria; 2006, Sussmann Art Price, Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt, short artist in residence, Berlin; Riss/ Lücke/ Scharnier A, concept of Heinrich Dunst, Gallery nebst St.Stephan, Vienna; 2005, Public Purchase Federal Chancellery, Austria; 2004, Public Purchase Kupferstichkabinett, Albertina, Vienna; 2002, an evening with FO/GOlab, Das Experiment, Seccession, Vienna; 2001, First Story – Women Building / New Narratives for the 21st Century, (solo), curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Galeria do Palacio, Porto.

Tina Bepperling Lives and works in Vienna, Austria;

2003, The ViPs, SKC Gallery, Belgrad; 21er, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna; 2002, The Video Marathon, Center of Contemporary Art, Chisinau, Moldavien; metabole, Secession Vienna; 2001, Unter

freiem Himmel, Skulptur im Schlosspark Ambras, Veranstalter: Galerie Elisabeth und Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck; Real Presence, SKC, Belgrad; 2000, Chiquita, Galerie Cachet, Vienna; 1997, Habitus, Abito, Abitare/Progetto Arte, Semperdepot, Vienna; Umfeld/Agenda, Kunstburo 1060 Wien; 1996, Habitus, Abito, Abitare/Progetto Arte, Museo Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy; The Vienna Moving Kitchen, Kulturmanagement Hausler, Munchen; 1995, Graphisches Kabinett, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Skizzen, Modelle, Notizen, Raum aktueller Kunst-Martin Janda, Vienna.

Nino ChubinishviliLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2007, Disfunctional, young designers exhibition, Rotondel, Luxembourg; 1998-2005, a member of artistic group Gislab, music, film, video, design, Tbilisi; 2002, Russian Silhouette, the presentation of collection, Monte Carlo; 2001, Russian Silhouette, Grand Prix on the International Fashion Contest, Moscow; 2000, Lines, (solo), Tbilisi; 1999, Airlines, (solo), State gallery, Tbilisi; 1998, Subtopic, International Fashion Snow, Batumi, Georgia; Rice Letter, The contest of young photographers, 3rd prize, Tbilisi; Dead Army, (solo), First International Avantgarde Fashion Show, 3rd prize, Tbilisi.

Nikoloz MachaidzeLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, Music for play Hunting for Stalin By L.Bugadze. Tbilisi State Rustaveli Theatre; 2007, Music for feature film subordinacia By Achiko Kavtaradze; Music for play Kakuca Cholokashvili By A.Kartvelishvili. Tbilisi State Marjanishvili Theatre; Music for play seagul By A. Chekhov. Tbilisi State Marjanishvili Theatre; 2006, Music for short-film komendantis saati By Zaza Rusadze; 2005, LP Rock with me with Thomas Brinkman and Marcus Schmikler, lable Max-E, Germany; CD album Erast Cyberpunk LaboratoryInstinct, Berlin –Tokyo.

Bernadette CotterLives and works in Ballingeary, Co.Cork, Ireland

Bernadette Cotter was born in Ballinageary, Ireland and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, enabling her to study at the San Francisco Art Institute, USA, graduating in 1989 with a Masters Degree in Sculpture. Cotter works mainly in installation and performance and has exhibited in the USA, France, Korea and Ireland.

Bob RasmussenLives and works in Ballingeary, Co.Cork, Ireland

Robert Rasmussen was born in Oslo, Norway. He received his BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1959 and an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1970. Robert taught ceramic sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1971 to 1998. He has exhibited extensively in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Seoul {Korea} and in Ireland. Robert received a National Endowment of the Arts grant in 1981.

Frances Hegarty & Andrew StonesLive and work in Sheffield, England

2007, Tactically Yours, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; 2006, Ex Machina, presentation, empty industrial space, Carlow; 2005, Ex

Machina, commissioned for Visualise Carlow, Ireland; 2001, Overnight Sensation, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; 2003, Extra, Bradford Film Office, Bradford; 2000, Orienteer (A to Z, Dawn to Dusk, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; 1998, Seemingly So Evidently Not Apparently Then, Site Gallery, Sheffield; 1997, For Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art /Nissan Art Project, the first collaborative practice.

Ian JoyceLives and works in Min a Lea, Co. Donegal, Ireland

Recent exhibitions of his work have taken place at Museum Villanovaforru in Sardinia (2005), at Karavanserei, Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia (2006), at the Hualien International artist’s workshop, Taiwan (2006) and the Gyumri Biennale of Contemporary Art, Armenia, 2008. Ian Joyce founded Cló in 1999, a residential art and media workshop attended by artists and curators from all over the world.

Oona HylandLives and works in Min a Lea, Co. Donegal, Ireland

Oona Hyland founded Cló with Ian Joyce in 1999, an international art and media workshop located in the Donegal Gaeltacht, Ireland. In addition to many receiving many awards for her work she has exhibited widely internationally, including in Finland, India, China, Sardinia and Spain. In 2005, she participated in Úr, an exhibition of contemporary Art of the Gaeltacht and Leabhar Mor na Gaeilge/Gaidhlig, an international touring exhibition of Art and poetry from Ireland and Scotland. Oona runs the International residency programme at Clo.

Ian GordonLives and works in Dunlewey, Co. Donegal, Ireland

Living in Dunlewey Co. Donegal for nearly 30 years en plein air painter Ian Gordon has been building a reputation for himself with his oil landscapes of Cloughaneely and Gweedore in the Gaeltacht region of Co. Donegal. Having trained at Wimbledon School of Art, London in the early 70’s as a conceptual artist, he has gradually returned to traditional media. He has exhibited steadily since 1995, with Solo exhibitions in Ireland, U.S.A and Canada. With his partner Sarah Lewtas he is participating artist in Marlartu, an artist in residence exchange between the Irish Gaeltacht and the Caucasus, supported by Ealain na Gaeltachta. Ian Gordon and Sarah Lewtas will be accommodated at artist in residence apartment in Gabashvili Street, Tblisisi.

Sarah Lewtas Lives and works in Dunlewey, Co. Donegal, Ireland

Sarah Lewtas has been living in the Gaoth Dobhair Gaeltacht for nearly 30 years. Originally from the south of England, she trained in fine art at St Martins College in London. Equally adept as a painter and sculptor; she has recently branched out into artist’s books and film making. She has had a number of solo exhibitions in Ireland, and she has taken part in many group exhibitions in Ireland and in England, France, Germany, Italy, Georgia and Armenia. With Ian Gordon, she is participating artist in Trasnú an artist in residence exchange between the Irish Gaeltacht and the Caucasus supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta. This is an exchange residency with Georgia using the artist-in-residence house and the Cló workshop facility and also using the Artist-in-residence

apartment in Georgia.

Kevin Mc Gee Lives and works in Gortahork, Co. Donegal, Ireland

He trained at and was awarded a National Diploma in Art & Design in 1994. He has exhibited widely in Ireland since 1994.

Teimur DaimiLives and works in Baku, Azerbaijan

2008, Group exhibition of the Azerbaijan visual art, Dresden, Germany; 2007, Time to live, presentation Black Paradise, International Social Cinema Forum Petersburg, Russia; Heterotopias. Other spaces, I International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica, Greece; 52nd Venice Biennale, in the status of art critic, Venice, Italy; 2006, Ecotopia: Contemporary Art and Nature in the Caucasus, II stage, Berlin, Germany; Presentation Geo-Creation, Athens Video Art/Film Festival, Athens, Greece; Presentation, Black Paradise, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Georgia; XXVIII Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Media Forum, Russia, Moscow; Stars of Shekin, presentation The Temple’s Heart, International Film Festival, Almati, Kazakhstan; Festival Est-Ouest, Die, France.

Dalia DudenaiteLives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania

2008, solo exhibition, Kultflux art platform, Vilnius; 2007, BA, final work exhibition INTRO gallery, Vilnius; Crosskick international project Die ideale akademie/Idealna akademia/ Ideali akademija, Münster Kunstverein; 2006, 15 art students 18 days in Zagare, Zagare, Lithuania; Lost Projects, ARTCORE gallery, Vilnius; 2005, 10 art students 14 days in Zagare, Zagare Lithuania.

Misha GogrichianiLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2007, Culture, New Art Gallery, Tbilisi; Bona Fide, Edinburgh Art Festival, Patriot hall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Georgian Artists in Support of Temi Community Orphanage, Spectrum London, UK; 2005, Apartment 1110, Unitarian Church Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA, US; 2004, Art Caucasus, Tbilisi; 2003, The Last East European Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Transmission, Galleria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia;2001, 21st Century, UNESCO, Paris, France.

Mamuka JapharidzeLives and works in Tbilisi and Bristol, UK.

2008, Journey to Tbilisi, Chapelle de l’Oratoire, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France; 2007, Pea Musha, Bad Chairs in cooperation with Andro Semeiko, public space project, Green Man-Free House, London, UK; Atmosphere 41 Degree, parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; Interpretation of Dreams, Aluminium, 3rd Biennial of Contemporary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan; 2006, KHOJ, international artists workshop, Kolkata, India; Still Life after Life, public space project, Visual Art Festival, Ganja, Azerbaijan; 11 Drum Street, presidency program, former base of the City of London Symphonic, UK.

Temur JavakhishviliLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, International Art Exhibition,

Index of the Artists [recent exhibitions, events, awards]Marburg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Germany; 2007, International Actual Art, France; 2006, Atmosphere 41 Degree, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Festival Est-Ouest, Die, France; 2005, Beyond Stereotypes, Art Caucasus, Tbilisi; Tbilisi Impronte, Gallery Borgo Arte, Italy; 2004, Caravansarai, International Forum of Visual art, Tbilisi; 2003, Caucasian Photography, Video, Film, Strasbourg-Milos; 2001, Cross Road, international art project, Samara; Arch of Stability, Museum of Blockade, Leningrad, Russia.

Kote JincharadzeLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, Concentration – Page I, 2008, ARCI Gallery, Tbilisi; 2007, Love and Work, Contemporary Art Festival, Ganja, Azerbaijan; Georgian Plain Air, international artists workshop, Racha, Georgia; 2006, Rodinoba – The Time to Beating Water, Geneva, Switzerland; Rodinoba – The National Celebration of Absurdity, Tbilisi; Silence is a Sing of Consent, action, VIII Round, Istanbul, Turkey; 2005, Time Structure, Gallery Ruin, Geneva, Switzerland; 2004, Kicci Zicci and Nina Ricci, Old Gallery, Tbilisi; 2003, Ghost, Old Gallery, Tbilisi; 2002, The Great Georgian Wall, State Art Gallery, Tbilisi; Silence, Club Basement, (solo), Tbilisi.

Gela Kintsurashvili Lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2007, Atmosphere 41 Degree, parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; 2006, Art Caucasus, International exhibition, Tbilisi; 2003, Appendix II, international contemporary art exhibition, Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla; 2001, Arch of Stability, Museum of Blockade, Leningrad, Russia; 1995, Cartesian Thoughts and Experience of Heart, Gallery Kashira, Moscow.

Ira KurmaevaLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, Concentration – Page I, 2008, ARCI Gallery, Tbilisi; 2007, Atmosphere 41 Degree, parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; 2006, Atmosphere 41 Degree, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; 2005, Beyond Stereotypes, Art Caucasus 2005; 2004, Neo Geo, Art Moscow, M. Guelman Gallery together with maf, Tbilisi; 2003, Aspects of Contemporary Photography of Southern Caucasus, Museum of Photography, Thessalonica, Greece; More Transparent, Museum Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan; 2001, solo exhibition, Club Base-ment, Tbilisi.

Niko LomashviliLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia, Washington, USA

Levan ChogoshviliLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2007, Top and Bottom Salt Tower/Hit Eat Gods, two-men show, Elene Akhvlediani Gallery, Arts Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, Tbilisi; 2006, Let’s Stay Alive Till Monday, curated by Daniel Bauman, Elene Akhvlediani Gallery, Arts Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, Tbilisi; 2005, Wednesday calls the Future, curated by Daniel Bauman, National Art Centre, Arts Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, Tbilisi; 2004, Double Bottom, international exhibition Tuesday is Gone, curated by Daniel Bauman, Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla. Arts Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, Tbilisi; Where is the King of Poland?, Gallery Elektor,

Warsaw, Poland.

Natalia MaliBorn in Dagestan, lives and works in Berlin, London

2008, Museum Night, Kiel, Germany; 2ème Edition du Parcours Parisien de la Photographie 2008, Gallery Stanislas Burgraie, (solo), Paris, France; I Hire you To Do My Homework, (solo), Centre for Contemporary Performing Arts, Galata Perform, Istanbul, Turkey, Performance Can´t Take My Eyes Off You, video Performance, (solo), Lipoli&Crechi Window Shop Gallery, Rome, Italy; 2007, Royal Academy of Arts, Zoo Art Fair, Gallery Matthew Bawn; II Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia; Caucasica, Centro Culturale Candiani, Venice, Italy; IFA, solo shows in Galleries of Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany, Moscow House of Photography, Russia; 2006, Biennale of Sidney, Sidney, Australia; Galerie Art Digital, (solo), Berlin, Germany.

Miriam NabarroLives and works in London, UK

2009, Palace of the End, scenography, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; Macbeth by Shakespeare, adapted by C. Heap, scenography, National Theatre, London; 2008, Tombstone Tales, scenography, Arcola Theatre, London; Dr. Korzcak’s Example, scenography, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; Artist in Residence, Bundanon, Arthur Boyd AIR complex, NSW, Australia; Sonic Postcards in collaboration with the British Council and Damascus Capital of Culture 2008; 2007, Arts Unwrapped: Memoryscreens and landscapes, (solo), Space Studios, London; ID 1000, 8 large scale site-specific devised performances for NYT ReAct, London Bubble Salon Locale, Gallery Space, London.

Zura NarmaniaLives and works in Winterthur, Switzerland

2007, Dezemberexhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Winterthur; 2006, Dezemberexhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Winterthur; Winterthur surch the Superstar, Kushalle Winterthur; 2005, Eulach art exhibition 05, Eulachhallen, Winterthur; 2001, Eulach art exhibition 01, Eulachhallen, Winterthur; 1998, Art Flow 98, Rhenaniahallen Koln, Germany; Spirit of the Age, Appolinaris Bad Neunahr, Germany.

Patricia London Ante Paris Lives adn works in Munich, Germany

2008, eine schwarz-weisse Angelegenheit, Goethe-Institut Georgien; Future Flowers, creme, Munich, Zukunft findet Statt, Rathausgalerie, Munchen; Zeitgenossische Kunst am Wittelsbacher Platz, performance zum 850.Geburtstag, Munich; Munich Revisited, zk-max, Munich; 2007, auch nicht und nicht nur das, Stadt. Artothek, Munchen, pope’s palace, Vienna; Under the Table On Dimitri, performance, cumbo club, Tbilisi; 2006, Pseudoperformance in Park, Central Park, New York; Conversation with Art, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo; 2005, Es hilft, Stadt.Galerie Esslingen; Encuentro Internacional de Pintores, La Alberca; The Apfele Land, Kunstverein Munchen.

Anna MolskaLives and works in Warsaw, Poland

2008, Art in General, (solo), NYC, USA; 5th Berlin Biennale, Germany; Paso Doble, Split, Croatia; Photography, BWA Zielona Gora, Poland; New films from Poland, New Museum, NYC, USA; 2007, Variants, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw;

Transvizuala, Gdynia, Poland; Biopower, c2c Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; Samsung Art Master 4, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, G-point, Warsaw; 2006, Cross-eyed Perspective, (solo), Ursula Walbroel Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany; Free Fest Festival, Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw, Poland; Start, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.

Pawel Althamer Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland

2008, Double Agent, Institute of Con-temporary Arts, London; Mimetisme, Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium; 2007, Sculpture project, Munster, Germany; One of Many, (solo), Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy; Black Market, (solo), Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany; The Present, The Monique Zaifen Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Present: The Monique Zaifen Collection - The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London, UK; 2006, Au Centre Pompidou, (solo). A space 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; 1,2,3,... Awangard,Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; The New Reality of Europe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.

Artur Zmijewski Lives and work in Warsaw, Poland

2007, Ausgewählte arbeiten, (solo), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany; DOCUMENTA 12, Kassel, Germany; II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; 2006, CCA Wattis, (solo), Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA; Impossible Theatre, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; [S]ELECTION.PL, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; 2005, Repetition, the Polish Pavilion at the 51st International Venice Biennale, Italy; Artur Zmijewski, (solo), Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Irreducible, Centre for Contemporary Art, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA; 2004, Artur Zmijewski, selected works, 1998-2003, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, USA.

Kuba BakowskiLives and works in Warsaw, Poland

2006, Tu bylem, Bakowski…, Street Stickers in the Wuyishan Mountains, individual project, Wuyishan Mountains, China; Light One in Ether, (solo), Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Florence, Italy; Air Sculptures and Other Flying Objects, (solo), Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystock, Poland; Muzeum Ziemi na Erosie 433, open-space project - posters on City lights, NASA photos with author’s texts, Warsaw; 2005, Museum of Earth on 433 Eros, 22 poster, Rialto Santambrogio, Rome, Italy; Unexpected Disorders of Sports Activities, (solo), Potocka Gallery, Krakow, Poland; Egoistic, Immoral, Obsolete, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Boys, Boys, Boys, Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland.

Prasto (Vazha Mikaberidze)Lives and works in Pietrasanta, Italy

2007, International sculpture project, Monument to George Balanchine, Tbilisi, St. Petersburg, New York; 2006, Dla Piper, Sculpture installations, Moscow; 2005, ERNST & YOUNG, Sculpture installations, Moscow; 2004, Monument to Sergei Parajanov, Tbilisi; 2000, Galleria la Subbia, (solo), Pietrasanta, Italy; 1997, Monument to Pirosmani, Pirosmani museum, Mirzaani,

Georgia; 1996, Ville D’ Avray, Pirosmani museum, France, dedicated to Camille Corot.

Koka RamishviliLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, Journey to Tbilisi, Chapelle de l’Oratoire, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France; The Other Book, (solo), Mitterrand+Cramer/Fine Art, Geneva, Switzerland; 2007, Diary of the Artist, parralel event of the II Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia; My Backyeard, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, USA; Progressive Mostalgia, Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy; Atmosphere 41 Degree, parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; 2006, Atmosphere 41 Degree, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Post Soviet Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK; 2005, Forbidden Sculptures, (solo), Gallery Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland.

Maka RazmadzeLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, Concentration – Page I, 2008, ARCI Gallery, Tbilisi; 2007, Atmosphere 41 Degree, parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; Views/Bridges, (solo), Gallery Kopala, Tbilisi; 2005, Beyond Stereotypes, Art Caucasus 2005, Tbilisi.

Ana RiaboshenkoLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, The World One Minute, video screening, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Le Visiteur, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Rustaveli Drama Theatre, director Gosha Gorgoshidze, Tbilisi, Georgia (scene painting, costumes, light); 2007, Art Digital 2006: Board Situation, II Moscow Biennale, Gallery Mars; 2006, Terror, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, project Baby Series; MULTIPLICITIES, CO City /Colorful City/ interactive art project, Transit Passengers, France, Sweden, Switzerland; 2006, One minute Video festival, Amsterdam.

Alexander YterceLives and works in Paris, France

1999, Carrousel du Louvre, Art Paris, Paris Photo; 2001, Retrospective in Bad, (solo), Hamburg, Germany; 2005, French years in China, Urban Museum, Shanghai, China; 2006-07 exhibitions in Heartgallery, Paris; 2007, Heterotipia, I Thessalonica Biennale, Greece; East–West Crossroad, Photo Festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Urbanconnections, Karsi Sanat, Istanbul; 2008, solo exhibition, Berlin, Germany.

Arnaud ContrerasLives and works in Paris, France

2007, Heterotipia, I Thessalonica Biennale, Greece; Urbanconnections, Karsi Sanat, Istanbul; East–West Crossroad, Photo Festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; 2005, Caravansarai, Baku, Azerbaijan, Istanbul, Turkey; 2003-2004, Caravansarai, International Forum of Visual Arts & Art Events, Artistic Exchanges Caucasus-Europe, Tbilisi.

Bruno FournierLives and works in Paris, Frame

2007, Nude in Motion, (solo), Paris, France; Heterotipia, I Thessalonica Biennale, Greece; East–West Crossroad, photo festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; 2006, OFF, photo

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Florence GonotLives and works in Paris, France

2007, Heterotipia, I Thessalonica Biennale, Greece; East–West Crossroad, Photo Festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Urbanconnections, Karsi Sanat, Istanbul; 2006 – 07, exhibitions in Heartgallery, Paris; 2005, French years in China, Urban Museum, Shanghai, China.

Francois DaireauxLives and works in Paris, France

2009, Gallery of Artotheque, (solo), Caen, France; Tout commence par les pieds, (solo), Art Center Villa Tamaris, La Seyne sur Mer, France; 2008, Goodbye, (solo), Art Center Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint-Ouen l’Aumone, France; 2007, Point de rencontre, (solo), College of Fines Arts, France; Fiat Lux, La Petite Surface, (solo), Faches-Thumesnil, France; 2006, Duchamp Rama, (solo), Gallery Duchamp, Yvetot, France; raccorder, tracer, (solo), Art Center La Chataigneraie, Flemalle, Belgium; tracer, raccorder (solo), Gallery Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium; Extinction, (solo), Art Center les Chartreux, Brussels, Belgium; Le salon marocain, (solo), Gallery BudA, Asse, Belgium.

Khaled KhafezLives and works in Cairo, Egypt

2008, Gwangzhoo Tiennale, Guandong Museum of Art, China; Neighbors in Dialogue, Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Skenderija Centre Sarajevo, Bosnia; Cairoscape: Images, Imagination and Imaginary of a contemporary Mega City, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; Trilogie Mediterraneenne: from Athens to Marseille to Cairo, Palais des Arts, Marseille, France; Arab Artists between Italy and the Mediterranean, Italian Cultural Institute, Damascus, Beirut & Cairo; 2007, Contact Zone, Bamako Museum of Art, Bamako, Mali; Sharjah Biennale, UAE; This Day, Tate Modern, London, UK; 2006, Singapore Biennale, Singapore; Dakar Biennale, Senegal; Images of the Middle East, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2005, Mediterranean Encounters, Messina, Italy.

Shalva KhakhanashviliLives and works n Paris, France

2007, Heterotipia, I Thessalonica Biennale, Greece; East–West Crossroad, Photo Festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Urbanconnections, Karsi Sanat, Istanbul; SLIK, Contemporary Art Fair in Paris Bellevile; DIVA Digital & Video Art Fair, Louvre des Antiquaires in Paris; Doucement nous sommes presses… , Heartgalerie, Paris; 2006, Atmosphere 41 Degree, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; 2003-2005, Founder & Artistic Direction of Caravansarai – Artistic Exchanges, International Forum of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Sitki KosemenLives and wrosk in Istanbul, Turkey

2007, Heterotipia, I Thessalonica Biennale, Greece; East–West Crossroad, Photo Festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Urbanconnections, Karsi Sanat, Istanbul; 2005, I am Listening to Istanbul with My Eyes Closed, video project, Istanbul; 2002, Inspiration, (solo), Istanbul; Pervari, (solo), Istanbul.

Nino SekhniashviliLives and works in Tbilisi

2008, CHUDO, (solo), Arci Gallery,Tbilisi; ORTung, exhibition and symposium, The cultural department of the goverment of Salzburg, Austria; Mao, (solo), Akademie Schloss solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; 2006, The Culture of Fear, ACC Gallery, Weimar together with foundation Federkeil, Leipzig and Knut Birkholz, Rotterdam); The Culture of Fear, Hall 14 Baumwollspinerei, Leipzig, Germany; Luft Holen, Artisthouse Klagenfurt and Art centre Unikum, Klagenfurt, Austria; Alternatiwe Visions, 3 artist fron Caucasus, Gallery Art point, Vienna, Austria, Art Without Borders, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia.

Sabina ShikhlinskaiaLives and works in Baku, Azerbaijan

2008, 3rd International Festival of Contem-porary Art, Cappadokia, Turkey; Steps of Time, Dresden Museum, Germany; USSR-remix, International art project, Center of Contemporary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan; Sarajevo Winter, International Festival, Bosni-Herzegovina; 2007, 3rd International Biennale of Contemporary Art Aluminium, Shirvanshakh’s Palace, Baku, Azerbaijan; 52nd Venice Biennale, Pavilion of Azerbaijan Republic, Venice, Italy; One Stop, Art Caucasus 2007, International Contemporary Art exhibition, Tbilisi; 2006, Caravanserai, exhibition of the Azerbaijani Art, Museum of Archeology, Stavanger, Norway; Station K, exhibition of Azerbaijani artists in residency, Sandnes, Norway; Hamam, (solo), Center of Contemporary Art, ‘Tou Scene’, Stavanger, Norway; 4th International Painting Biennale of the Islamic World, Teheran, Iran.

Murtaz ShvelidzeLives and works in Tbilisi

2007, Pro Art, ProCredit bank, Tbilisi; 2006, Sporting Stadiums, art cafe Tapiri, Tbilisi; Atmosphere 41 Degree, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia; Gyumri Biennale, Armenia; 2005, Beyond Stereotypes, Art Caucasus, Tbilisi; 2004, Point of Intersection, Art Caucasus, Tbilisi; Wind from Caucasus, international symposium, Art-Villa Garikula, Georgia; 2003, Cultural Policy, Gallery Universe, Tbilisi; 2002, Utopian Projects, Old Gallery, Tbilisi; Documents of Travel, Gallery Art Synthesis, Tbilisi; 2001, Arch of Stability, Museum of Blockade, Leningrad, Russia.

Kote SulaberidzeLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, April Project, (solo), Silk Museum, Tbilisi; Something about a Ham, (solo), Baya Gallery, Tbilisi; 2007, Time of Storytellers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Finland; 11 Georgian Artists, Gallery Spectrum, London, UK; Progressive Nostalgia, Centro per L’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy; 2006, Internationla Festival of Art, Gianja, Azerbaijan; 2005, Art Caucasus, International Convention of Contemporary Art, GTC, Tbilisi; 2004, Information Public Box, art propject, Tbilisi Art Academy; Neo Geo, Art-Moscow 2004, Marat Guelman Gallery, Central House of artist, Moscow.

George SumbadzeLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2005-2006, Anabechdi magazine, graphic design, Tbilisi; 2004, Neo Geo, Art-Moscow 2004, Marat Guelman Gallery, Central House of artist, Moscow; 2003, Stroy-DiStroy, Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla;

Appendix II, international contemporary art exhibition, Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla; Polextension, urban intervention, with Caroline Lavoie, Berlin; 2002, Out of Focus, Tabla, Kunstverein Perron, Vienna, Austria; 2001, Locus Focus, Sonsbeek9, Arnhem; Supervision, Sakhalin/Moscow; Appendix I, international contemporary art exhibition, Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla; 2000, Artgruz, OGI, Club Moscow, Moscow; Goslab presents, Gallery Orient, Tbilisi.

Thea TeliaLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia.

2007-2008, Three Houses, feature film, production designer, independent film project; 2006, Digital Stories, Gallery of Tbilisi Art Academy; 2005, He likes, video screening, Feminine Fantasies, N Gallery, Tbilisi; 2004, The Way, video screening, Art Caucasus, GTC Centre, Tbilisi; 2003, Red Magic, Small Gallery, International Forum of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi.

Vato TsereteliLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia.

2008, Nature and a City‚ Cumberto exhibition space, Tbilisi; Voyage a Tbilissi, Musee des Braux-Arts de Nantes, France; 2004, Neo Geo, Art-Moscow 2004, Gallery Marat Guelman, Central House of Artist, Moscow; 2003, Appendix II, international contemporary art exhibition, organizer and participant, Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Georgia; 2002, Structural Changes. Documents, h’Wit Blad Gallery, Watou, Belgium; TABLA, Georgian Week, WUK, Vienna, Austria; ‘Stroy-DiStroy’, Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Georgia.

Niko TsetskhladzeLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, Concentration – Page I, 2008, ARCI Gallery, Tbilisi; 2007, Atmosphere 41 Degree, parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; 2006, Digital Story, Gallery of Academy of Arts. Tbilisi; 2005, Group Exhibition for Christmas, Paris, France; Beyond Stereotypes, Art Caucasus 2005, Tbilisi; Outlaw, international artists’ symposium, National Art Centre, Tbilisi; 2004, Double Bottom, Club 22, Tbilisi; Solo Exhibitions, Gallery Universe, N-Gallery, Tbilisi; Wind from the Caucasus, international artists’ symposium, Art-Villa Garikula, Georgia; 2003, Transmission, Gallery Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava.

Guram TsibakhashviliLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2008, Journey to Tbilisi, Chapelle de l’Oratoire, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France; 2007, Heterotipia, I Thessalonica Biennale, Greece; Caunas Photo 2007, Caunas, Lithuania; Atmosphere 41 Degree, parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; 2006, Transfusion, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Basel, Switzerland; Atmosphere 41 Degree, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia; Transboarder – exclusion, inclusion, Mond Photographia, Basement Exhibition Hall, Vienna, Austria; 2005, Beyond Stereotypes, Art Caucasus, exhibition hall of GTC Centre, Tbilisi, Georgia; 2004, Life-n-Style, Art Caucasus, exhibition hall of GTC Centre, Tbilisi.

Neriman PolatLives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.

2008, Father’s Home Apartment, (solo), Pi

Artworks, Istanbul; 2007, 2+1 Apartment Project, 10th international Istanbul Biennial, Your eyes bigger than your stomach, Hafriyat Art Group, Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul; On the Outside, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany; 2006, Strangers with Angelic Faces, Space Gallery, London, Istanbul, Aksanat Art Centre; 2005, Visions, Contemporary Art Show, Kappatos Gallery, Athens,Thessaloniki, Greece; Hospitality Zone, Hafriyat Art Group, Production Fault, Antrepo, 9th International Istanbul Biennial; 2004, …for Art, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul; The Sphınx will Devour you, Karsı Art Group, Istanbul.

Evrensel BelginLives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.

2008, Makul, Hafriyat, Istanbul; 2007, Comtenporary Istanbul 2007, RHMD, Istanbul; Fear of God, Hafriyat, Istanbul; Be realistic, demand the impossible!, Cur: H. Altındere, Karsı Sanat, Istanbul; Alternative Election Posters, Hafriyat, Istanbul; Nothing is on its Way, Apartman Project, Istanbul; 2005, Consumption of Justice, Cur: B. Madra, DSM, Diyarbakır; Tele-City, Cur: M. Graf – B. Senova, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul; Web Biennial 2005, 2003; 2004, 23 Emerging Artists Exhibition, Cur: E.Danon–A.Lederer–B.Genova, DSM, Diyarbakır, Akbank-Sanat, Istanbul; 2003, News on communication, Mg-Art Studio, Istanbul.

Archil TurmanidzeLives and works in Tbilisi

2005, Art Director, National Art Centre, Georgia; Europe, Artists Open Your Heart as a Carpet, international artists encounter; Vienna-Garikula, international artists’ symposium, Garikula, Georgia; Beyond Stereotypes, Art Caucasus 2005, Tbilisi; Outlaw, international artists’ symposium, National Art Center, Tbilisi; 2004, The 9th Venice Architectural Biennale, the project Garikula-Center for the Arts; 2003, Robert Kapa in Georgia, photo exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre, Tbilisi; 2001, Art Director, Fund of Revival and Development of Shida Kartli, Georgia.

Iliko ZautashviliLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia.

2008, Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York; Journey to Tbilisi, Chapelle de l’Oratoire, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France; 2007, Nine Dragon Heads, 12th International environment Workshop and Art Symposium, Cheongju, Geoje, Seoul, South Korea; Atmosphere 41 Degree, parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; International Artists Workshop and Exhibition, Hweilan, Taiwan; 2006, Transfusion, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland; Atmosphere 41 Degree, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Visual Immortality, International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Shumen, Bulgaria; Caravansarai - Station Paris, Heartgalerie, Paris, France; Nuit Blanche, International (outdoor) exhibition of contemporary art, Paris, France.

Luka Zet/ZautashviliLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

2007, Manifatura, Contemporary Arts and Crafts Days at Unkapani, parallel event of the parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale; Preferred Idea in Preferred Technique, workshop, lecturer: Dmitri Gutov, Russia, International Academy of Education, Armenian Open University Changes through Exchanges 2, Yerevan, Armenia; One stop, Art Caucasus 2007, video screening She’s

Thinking He’s Thinking, Literature café, Tbilisi, Georgia; Interpretation of Dreams, Absheron Gallery, Realities of Dreams, 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art Aluminium, Baku, Azerbaijan.

Martin ZetLives in Libušín, Czech Republic

2008, EGALITE, (solo), Piomonti Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Deadly Serious, (solo), Divus Unit 30, London, GB; Mediations, Zendai MOMA Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China; Totalitarian Landscape, Mayrau Museum, Vinarice, Czech Republic; 2007, Video screening, 24th Film festival Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic; Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, England; Prague Biennale 3, Prague, Czech Republic; Alytus Biennale, Alytus, Lithuania; Depression, Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland; Potemkin Village, Break festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2006, Martin is not Funny, (solo), National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania; Video screening, Solistas, Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico; 2004, RED FALL, Station Museum, Houston, U.S.A.

Goethe-Institut, Georgien-------------------------------------------------------Simone WesterwinterLives and works in Stuttgart, Germany

2008, Sweet Structures, (solo), Simone Gallery Parrotta, Stuttgart, Berlin; Pietro Sanguineti, ZKMax, Munich; Maximin, The Daimler Coilection/ Fundazion Juan March, Madrid, Spain; 2007, Da Bauhaus (Agora!), The Daimler Collection/Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, Sao Paulo; 2006, Conversation with Art, on Art. bauhaus to Contemporary Art The Daimler Collection/ Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo; 2005, Celebration, Halle fur Kunst, Luneburg; Angekommen, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Offentlichkeit als Medium II - Videos und Dokumentationen, ZKMax, Munich.

ARCI Art Gallery-------------------------------------------------------Adriane ColburnLives and works in San Francisco, California USA

2008, Pacific Light: California Watercolor, 1908-2008, Nordic Watercolor Museum, Skarhamn, Sweden; Sedimentary Emergence, (solo), Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT; An Affair With Artists, Michael Rosenthal Contemporary Arts, Redwood City, CA; Eureka Fellowship awarded by the Fleishhacker Foundation; Artist in Residency at The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping in Durham, New Hampshire; 2007, In the Fullness of Time, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA; An Affair With Artists, Michael Rosenthal Contemporary Arts, Redwood City, CA; Fellowship Award, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA; 2006, Paper, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA; International Waters, Steven Wolf Gallery, San Francisco; Artadia Award Exhibition, CCA San Francisco, CA.

Yoon LeeLives and works in San Francisco, California USA

2008, Recent Work, (solo), Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY; Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Lousiana; Pierogi et al, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase, New York; Out of the Fog, Art, Works Downtown, San Raphael, CA; The Prom, Lawrimore

Projects, Seattle, Washington; 2007, In the Fullness of Time, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Red Hot, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Selections from New American Paintings: MFA Annual, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA; (Un)Natural Selection, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY; Swab, DCKT Contemporary, Barcelona, Spain; The Armory Show, Pierogi, New York, NY; Euphorion: Art from San Francisco, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany; Eduardo Carrillo Prize from San Jose Museum of Art; Artist Residency at 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica, California.

Bill DanielLives and works in Braddock, Pennsylvania USA

2008, After Nature, New Museum, New York; In the Fullness of Time, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Sunset Scavenger, (solo), Get This Gallery, Atlanta, GA, and Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY; Wheelchair Epidemic, Gallery Lombardi, Austin Texas; There is a House, abandoned house, Braddock, Pennsylvania; Guggenheim Fellow Award; 2007, Sunset Scavenger, (solo), mural photoprints from Sausalito and NOLA, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA; Life Raft, sculpture/video/photo, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee; 2006, Punk Pix, (solo), Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA; 2005, Elevation, Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA; Who is Bozo Texino?, film on the secret history of hobo graffiti (director/photographer/editor) Creative Capital Grant Award.

David MaiselLives and works in Sausalito, California USA

2009, Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; First Light: Optical Confusion In Modern Photography, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; 2008, Oblivion, (solo), Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Library of Dust, (solo), Portland Art Museum, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon; First Light: Confusion in Modern Photography and the Environmental Debate, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Prix Pictet, Palais de Tokyo Paris, France; We Remember the Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, Walter McBean Galleries; Shifting Landscapes, Powerhouse Arena Gallery, New York, NY.

David GurmanLives and works in San Francisco, California USA

2008, We Remember the Sun, San Francisco Art Institute: Walter & McBean Gallery, Curated by Mary Ellyn Johnson, San Francisco, CA; Maker Faire, Curated by Philip Ross, San Francisco, CA; 2007, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Swarm Gallery, San Francisco, CA; CCA Graduate Exhibition, San Francisco, CA; Media Arts Now, Oliver Gallery, Oakland, CA; Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Studio Award, Sausalito, CA; Toby Devan Lewis MFA Fellowship, San Francisco, CA; 2006, What’s the Story?, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 50/50: Fifty States, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX; Interface, Nahl Hall, Oakland, CA; 2004, Drones Royal Jelly, Light Based Sculpture, Lakonishok Residence NY, NY.

Mark ThompsonLives and works in Orinda, California USA

2009, The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; 2008, Seeing Double, Galerie Thomas Zander, Koln, Germany; CCA Faculty Development Grant;

2007-2008, Artists Of Invention: A Century Of CCA, Oakland Museum of CA; 2006, Bug City: Immersion, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; CCA Creative Capital Faculty Workshop; 2005, Southern Exposure, Practice Makes Perfect: Bay Area Conceptual Craft, The Sixth Sense (Closing a Sale), San Francisco, CA; 2001-2002, Fast Foward: Recent Acquisitions, (collaboration with Jon Rubin and Harrell Fletcher,) Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; CCA, Faculty Development Grant.

Sheila GhidiniLives and works in San Francisco, California USA

2008, Mission Viejo Park, Passages, A Public Art Commission , Aurora, Colorado; 2007, Wings, Drawing Installation, University of California Extension Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Close Calls, (solo), Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; 2006, Here: A Public Art Commission for the 911/OES Building, San Francisco, CA; 2005, Marking Time, 2-Person Drawing Exhibition, Monterey Peninsula College Gallery, CA; Black and White and Read, (solo), Drawing Exhibitions, Cabrillo College, CA; 2004, Marking Motion, Installation, (solo), The Lab, San Francisco, CA; Ohlone Memorialization Project: A Public Art Commission for A Redevelopment Agency, Emeryville, CA.

LedohLives and works in San Francisco, California USA

2008, Color Me America (Premiere), ODC Theatre’s For the Record Festival, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA; 2007, Riparian Grove: site-specific installation, Maxwell Regional Park, Sonoma, CA; Captivity Concealed/Revealed, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; Signature Required: Red Sketch, DiRosa Preserve for Art and Nature, Napa, CA; 2006, Signature Required: White Sketch CHIMELive!, Margaret Jenkins Dance Laboratory, San Francisco, CA; Signature Required: Blue Sketch, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA; 2005, Parasols, Yerba Buena Center Gardens, San Francisco, CA; Blue Scale, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA; Blue Scale, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.

Walter KitunduLives and works in San Francisco, California USA

2008, MacArthur Foundation Genius Award; Wornick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Wood Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco Damn Your Eyes: The Infinite Dimension of Sound, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Field, Machine Project, Los Angeles, California; Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; 2007, Performed with the Kronos Quartet, San Francisco Jazz Festival; Performed with Daniel Alexander Jones, Book of Daniel, Austin, Texas; Performed with Matmos and So Percussion, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Beats Per Minute: American Artists Influenced by Craft and Folk Art Practices, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA; Performed at Galatos Theatre, AK07, Aukland New Zealand.

Anthony CedrasLives and works in New York

2008, Pan Jazz with Garvin Blake, Lincoln Center, New York City; Hugh Masekela: Live, Hawaii Cultural Center, Maui, Hawaii; Paul Simon Summer European Tour, In Europe: Reykjavik Iceland; Liverpool, UK;

Birmingham, UK; Oxford, UK; NordSee Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Holland; Palais de Sport Paris, France; Montreux Jazz Festival, Stuttgart, Germany; Koln, Germany; Cork Ireland; Taromina Sicily; Rome, Italy; Residency At Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM) with Paul Simon (additional musicians included David Byrne, Lucia Sosa, Vusi Mathlasala, Cyro Batista, Josh Groban, Ladysmith Black Mombazo, the Roaches, Steve Gadd, Kaissa); Solo performance: Madiba Restaurant, Brooklyn, New York; 2007, Paul Simon Fall North American Fall Tour (Vancouver, British Columbia; Seattle, Washington; Portland Oregon; Greek Theater, Berkeley, California; Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles; Beacon Theater, New York; Orpheus Theatre, Boston, MA; Washington DC; Chicago; Detroit; Richmond Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia.

‘Academy+’ Art Gallery-------------------------------------------------------Jean DupuyLives and works in Paris, France

Recently he has picked up some stones on the beach of Nice and then presented them in Paris together with some other works created in New York in the 70-s.

Emile Laugier lives and works in Paris, France

He is a multimedia artist. His art activity is well known in Paris and New York.

Guela TsouladzeLives and works in Tbilisi and Paris

2007, Light Box, tapestries for the French Ambassador in Georgia; Atmosphere 41 Degree, parallel project of the 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Siemens Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; 2005, House of Caucasus, Paris, France; 2004, I auction sell at Tajan, lot #772, Paris; 2003, En attendant la guerre et la St.Valentin, Comitè de Salut Artistique, Paris; Liberte, for the Rose Revolution, Tbilisi; 2002, Carpet &Design, Siroux-Taki Gallery, Paris; 2001, Sardapi Gallery, (solo), Tbilisi; 2000, Les Trones, Santa Barbara, LA, USA.

Collateral Projects-------------------------------------------------------Justyna Mielnikiewicz documentary photographer based in Tbilisi since 2002.

While covering news regularly cooperates with New York Times and Newsweek Poland among others.

Pascal Leopold French documentary photographer. Lives and works in Paris, France.

David ChikhladzeLives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia, New York, USA

2006, The Book of Reality, City University of New York, New York; 2004, Audit, video installation for theater et al, The Chocolate Factory, NY; Notable Theater, film and performance in NY; 2002-03, Theatre Season Reviews; 2002, Fundamental, video for the theater et al, inc., HEREArts Center, New York; An American Avant Garde: Second Wave An Exhibit, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Seductions, theatrical installation, Collective: Unconscious, New York; 2000, For 2D Theatre, Collective: Unconscious, New York; 1996, Esoteric, Robert Faires, Raving About Theatre, Austin Chronicle.

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The publishing and printing of the catalogue has been made possible through the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport of Georgia, The United States Embassy in Georgia, Culture Ireland, Parsons The New School of Design.

Published on the occasion of the international forum of contemporary art ARTISTERIUM© CGCCA, 2008.© CfVR, 2008.

Printed by the CGS inan edition of 800 copies.Tbilisi, Georgia, 2008.

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