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GeoAIR

GeoAIR 13/05/2006 00:14

ERforS rapport on the GeoAIR pilot and ERforS 3 project: ´Georgia here we come´
March 2006, in collaboration with ERforS and Expodium.

GeoAIR

GeoAIR 12/05/2006 23:35






Central presentation space at the National Art Center Tbilisi. GeoAIR pilot project in Tbilisi; ERforS 3.








For the realisation of this project GeoAIR sends special thanks to: the Dutch Embassy in Tbilis and the National Art Center in Tbilisi.

GeoAIR

GeoAIR 10/01/2006 15:09

March 2006 pilot project: Georgia here we come!

Organised by ERforS (Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Van den Eynde) and Expodium Utrecht in collaboration with GeoAIR
www.enoughroomforspace.org and www.expodium.nl

Responding to the call of new Georgian President Saakashvilli, ERforS and Expodium organize a site specific project. This call was for Georgians, who have studied and worked abroad, to return to Georgia and help to rebuild the country. We want to respond to this call too and investigate how art could contribute to this quest for freedom and democracy. Should they change something and if so what and how? What is freedom and what is democracy? For the project it is important to have an open view towards the situation and not have a fixed idea about Georgia at the moment. The interaction with artists and locals is important to understand more about Georgia and it's future. With small interventions and works in the public sphere we want to create changes and stimulate the use of committed art.

Participants :

Daan van den Berg (NL) www.rotterdamsekunstenaars.nl
Stefaan Dheedene (BE) www.stefaandheedene.com
Marjolijn Dijkman (NL) www.marjolijndijkman.com
Orgacom (NL) Teike Asselbergs/Elias Tieleman www.orgacom.nl
Eric Robertson (USA) Center for the Advancement of Recreation and Leisure http://carl.typepad.com
Suze May Sho (NL) no website. (Rossel Heijmen, Jessica Helbach, Connie Nijman)
Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE/NL) www.massproductions.nl
During the project in Georgia Expodium will select artists to go to Utrecht to develop a similar project in Holland. 1st part of the project in Georgia will take place from 2nd until the 24th of March in 2006. The part in Holland will take place in July 2006. The two curators of Expodium will come in Tbilisi to choose 6 artists to come to Utrecht for a similar project. They will put advertisements in newspapers in Georgia to ask artists to apply for the project. The artists will develop a site-specific project in the Netherlands.

'We think the influence of our installations, projects and interventions will create small scale differences in the city. The interaction between the inhabitants and audience will hopefully create an interesting soil for committed art and the future developments of GEO-AIR and residencies in Tbilisi'. - says ERforS

GeoAIR

GeoAIR 08/12/2005 20:01


Dear colleagues, friends and relations:

In August 2005 we: Sophia Tabatadze (Tbilisi-based artist) and Freya van Dien, (Rotterdam-based organizer in the field of art), decided to make a plan for setting up an artist-in-residence in Tbilisi, Georgia. During Freyas first visit to Tbilisi in October, we received the good news that the Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (FondsBKVB) granted us a subsidy for the necessary research to realize the project.
The first reactions to the initiative, by people from the local Tbilisi art scene, the art academy and the Dutch embassy, are supportive of the goals of the project.
Geoair.blogspot.com will keep you up to date on the projects developments. If you know anyone who might be interested in this project, please pass it on. And, if you have any questions or remarks, feel free to contact us at: infogeoair@gmail.com

Best,
Sophia Tabatadze & Freya van Dien

GeoAIR

GeoAIR 08/12/2005 19:56


If you buy a present in Georgia they ask you whether you want the vendor to put the price tag on. You can make the present look as costly as you wish.

or: A Georgian Guy is surprised to hear that in Western Europe the trains leave on time: and what about the people that come too late?

Picture by DHZ23, a 'flat-extention' in Tbilisi. 27-10-'05

General information on Georgia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%2C_Caucasus

GeoAIR

GeoAIR 05/12/2005 21:31

One year research.
The central question for the project is: What methods and platforms offer the best format for an exchange between professionals from the art world when they find themselves in a different cultural context? In this project, we hope to develop a vision for the cultural and social value of cultural exchange in Tbilisi, and how this exchange can become of sustainable value.

In the research period of 2006, the focus is on 6 aspects of the project:
  1. The content of the residence: How can we introduce urgent and relevant cultural issues and connect the visiting professionals to those issues? How can we organize a long-term development on what is important to the context (Georgia & Tbilisi) in this exchange project?
  2. Conceptual development towards the social changes that are taking place in this part of the world or in similar regions. What is the best way to relate this bigger picture to the context of the residency?
  3. Relation between the context of the residence and the facilities that could be provided to artists.
  4. Guidelines and methods for selecting professional artists.
  5. Building a network of engaged people and organizations that can support the project on the level of content, PR, communication and funding.
  6. Setting up a small organization to run the residency.

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