open call for participitants

2007-08-07T03:32:00.000-07:00

From 80’s alike every post soviet country in Georgia also had begun the process of the deconstruction of the established mentality and its replacement with the indistinct ‘capitalism’.
Infinite changes of formations mainly served to establish totally vague ‘novelties’ for the general society. Soon this process was accompanied by the war for the national and geographical entirety. Nevertheless no one won this war, it still continues until today. The goal of this war was not defense of the human rights or creating contemporary national heroes – in Georgia, as in the whole Caucasus, one still fights to defend/strengthen the borders, to destroy/expand them or even to liberate from them. Origins of all the problems and misfortunes of this region during these last years are hidden in the political and mental borders of its society. They still can’t divide the territories and even the border between ‘us’ and indefinite ‘west’ still can’t be found and outlined.

Caucasus, despite being the crossroad of the east and west, more often appears not as a conductor but merely as a border between such different and sometimes even opposed civilizations. Political and geographical borders much vividly appear in the mind of its inhabitants and especially in the creative ones’. The most part of the artists who participate in this project clearly remember how the ‘perestroika’ was changing the forms and the borders of their countries, formation of their conscious was accompanied by the infinite analyze of the phenomena of the border.

“BORDER” is not concentrated only on the problems of the local basis; by inviting artists from the worldwide we tend to generalize the problems and outline the similarities/differences between societies of a different historical culture and mentality, to help to generous exchange of experiences among the artists. The project is also interested to expand the role and the area of the artistic activities and responsibilities of the artists themselves, offering every participator to promote the project in the country of their origin/recent activity.

working group and works will be sleceted after the dialogue between the organisers and the artists; also will be decided the form and shedule of the realisation and presentation of the project.

all the creative minds and suggestions are widely welcomed. please post your proposals/comments direcly here or contact us by e-mail:

Sophie Kilasonia: skilasonia@gmail.com

Levan Mindiashvili: imindiashvili@yahoo.com

sazgvari / border / frontiere / frontera / graniza

open call for participitants