PERFOMANCE DAYS TBILISI 2020: IT’S UP TO US

25 – 27 December 2020
Tbilisi, Georgia

In the times of a pandemic, when both touch and closeness become risky and even frightening, we decided to celebrate an artistic approach – performance – without the real presence of the performers. This main theme of the festival is you, us. We as an audience create or become an essential part of a performative work. As an audience, we complete the artistic process. We as an audience look for presence and live interaction with artistic practice. Come to explore, to play, to amuse, and to acknowledge.

PHYSICAL OBJECTS
OPENING: 25 December 2020
LOCATION: D.ABASHIDZE 10, Tbilisi
TIME: 16:30

SHAKHTA
by David Brodsky
An installation in a public space, dedicated to all the lonely, homeless and solitary people.

• DAY 1
  18:00 – 25 December, 2020
  Sound Performance at performative installation SHAKHTA by Ben Wheeler
• DAY 2
  18:00– 26 December, 2020
  Sound Performance at performative installation SHAKHTA by BUSF
• DAY 3
  18:00 – 26 December, 2020
  Sound Performance at performative installation SHAKHTA by Hundred Tapes

NOTHING SPILLS
by Zizi Adamia

This installation represents a transformation of traditional fountains in which I create objects of my own and integrate them with the items I find outside, on the streets, construction sites, and so on. Every object goes beyond its initial purpose and has no strictly defined rule of usage. Everything is wrapped together with the element of water, which enlivens the whole installation, makes it dynamic, and gives new meaning to the objects. I wanted the whole experience to be liberating for viewers. Supposedly giving them the freedom to adapt to the installation and whole space themselves.

SILVER TAMBOURINE
by Mariam Gabritchidze & Sandro Sulaberidze

City as a living organism keeps many historical legends and
secrets. On legends unfamiliar and familiar for many:
dragons, eternal brotherhood, new Moon, subway station snails…

Silver Tambourine is a kaleidoscope-like object, it embarks on a journey much like a cosmic ship in the infinite world filled with hazards and adventures.

The information that tambourine stores is transmitted just like a seasonal virus, from a person to person, living from viewer to viewer, and is an emergency tool in this extreme period of a pandemic for socializing and exchanging cultural ideas.

FILM SCREENINGS
LOCATION: ART & INNOVATIONS HUB – D.ABASHIDZE 10, Tbilisi
TIME: 16:30

• 26 December 2020; 16:30
  SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
  dir. Pierre Coulibeuf
  Year: 2004 / Duration: 70min

An experimental film portrait by Pierre Coulibeuf that transposes the research of choreographer Meg Stuart into fiction.

The film re-creates the behaviours and gestures of individuals in everyday life: the strange or unusual attitudes of a couple of unconventional figures, of two girls in their flat, of a couple in a half-destroyed house, of a girl in an underground parking garage, of another girl who wants to settle in Switzerland and live more or less traumatic experiences… These characters are also the material of research that is both choreographic and cinematic. The title, Somewhere in between, intends to suggest the idea of vagueness: that of places; of the identity of the film’s protagonist as well as the other participants; of situations or relationships between all the individuals who move in the film. Vagueness is just as constitutive of Meg Stuart’s choreographic work as it is of Pierre Coulibeuf’s films, affecting the entire reality of a film that perches on the boundary of humour and gravity. The choreographer’s imaginations inspired Pierre Coulibeuf to create a discontinuous film tale, like a mental projection.

• 27 December 2020; 16:30
  BYPASS
  by Zura Tsofurashvili
  Year: 2020 / Duration: 55 min

The submitted video documentation is the footage (GoPro) captured during the trip to the certain locations suggested by the artist in the frames of sound exhibition – listening to the city. The footage taken while moving fast, describes different areas of the city from a traveler’s perspective. The video reportage, considering the specifics of the camera and the process itself, allows direct communication with the urban environment and creates the illusion of sharing one’s own and private space.

RADIO PROGRAMME

Common Waves Wesbite
Community Radio Tbilisi

DAY 1; 25 December 2020

• 18:00
  Live broadcast of a performance by experimental musician, composer, and ethnomusicologist Ben Wheeler at performative installation SHAKHTA
• 22:00
  Interview with Georgian artist Lado Darakhvelidze Empathy and Tact by Lali Partenava (in Georgian)
  The interviews are for an archive of performance art in Georgia. The interviews present views of artists on the notion of avant-garde and their self-acceptance as performance artists.

DAY 2; 26 December 2020

• 18:00
  Live broadcast of a performance by experimental musician BUSF at performative installation SHAKHTA
• 22:00
  Interview with Georgian artist Andro Dadiani by Lali Partenava (in Georgian)
  The interviews are for an archive of performance art in Georgia. The interviews present views of artists on the notion of avant-garde and their self-acceptance as performance artists.
• 23:00
  Performance for a radio – MTA
  MTA – First Dance Performance for the Radio Community Radio Tbilisi Choreographer: Barbora Gallo; Performer: Nutsa Khizanishvili; Music: Zura Tsofurashvili / Aleksi Soselia / Ilia Makharadze – Touristic Trip;
• 24:00
  Radio Visits with American performer, choreographer, a teacher in National Dance Academy in Rome and Feldenkreis practitioner Teri Jeanette Weikel about Feldenkreis method.

DAY 3; 27 December 2020

• 18:00
  Live broadcast of a performance by Tbilisi based cassette tape label focusing on limited/special run/art object stereophonic cassette releases for electroacoustic and experimental based music – Hundred Tapes – at performative installation SHAKHTA
• 22:00
  Interview with Georgian artist Zura Rtveliashvili by Lali Partenava (in Georgian)
  The interviews are for an archive of performance art in Georgia. The interviews present views of artists on the notion of avant-garde and their self-acceptance as performance artists.
• 23:00
  Radio Visits with dancer and performer Ingrid Zotova-Mikshina