Tbilisi InSights goes Tbilisi
at Gallery Nectar / TBILISI (Georgia)
9.10.2014 - 30.10.2014

NOW TBILISI INSIGHTS GOES TBILISI!

Tbilisi InSights aims to outline a non-linear, personal perspective on the transformations of daily life in Modern Georgia. Architecture, when not explored as a merely functional assemblage of speechless elements which compose inhabited spaces, incorporates life, therefore Tbilisi InSights considers, as the very foundation of architecture, people. People who need places to live and work, who build and envision, who inhabit and change the given and future architectural structure.

Hence the project presents glimpses into personal, unintentional archives of those living within Tbilisi's architecture, a collection of various media and different forms, yet extending this insight into the past to imaginary concepts and critical alternatives of living within the modern city today.

The individual tends to be set in an inadequate dichotomy of private and public spaces which we are made to believe are for the people's good, yet state structures as well as those created by private enterprises disrupt not only the understandings of dichotomous space, but even more so interactions within. These are phenomena to be observed in building tendencies throughout the city as well as in funding opportunities and decision making for artistic and architectural projects, generating a process shaped by local but also Western financing connected to their respective agendas only, leaving the city with blanks when it comes to a common envisioning of its future.

After the exhibition the collective will work together with London based P.E.A.R magazine on a special issue, additionally inviting other contributors. The publication will be launched in Tbilisi and London in Spring 2015. The project is conceptualized and initiated by the Tbilisi InSights collective after deciding to proceed with an adapted version of the proposed project for the Georgian Pavilion for the 14th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Defeated in all efforts to secure funding for the adapted project, Tbilisi InSights is presented between concept, process and imagination. The collective consists of four Tbilisi based members: Public Space with a Roof artist Tamuna Chabashvili, anthropologist Data Chigholashvili, architect and Tbilisi Moare researcher Gvantsa Nikolaishvili and artist and curator Katharina Stadler. Italy based curator and theorist Lucrezia Cippitelli has been invited for collaboration.

Credits: Tbilisi InSights Collective



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