Bank of Georgia, The Other Space Foundation and GeoAIR
invite you
to the informal promotion of the book Ministry of Highways
& the presentation of the One Caucasus 2014 project
Thursday, November 21st, 7 PM
Bank of Georgia, 29a Gagarin Str., Tbilisi
(entrance from the riverside)
NOTE: Number of seats limited - if you want to participate please write to ziwaszkiewicz@przestrzen.a
Ministry of Highways
A Guide to the Performative Architecture of Tbilisi
With contributions by Ei Arakawa, Ruben Arevshatyan, Levan Asabashvili, Bouillon Group, George Chakhava, Thea Djordjadze, Didier Faustino, Yona Friedman, Witek Hebanowski, Nana Kipiani, Nikoloz Lutidze, Marion von Osten, Nini Palavandishvili, Gela Patashuri, Lali Pertenava, Marjetica Potrč, Richard Reynolds, Slavs and Tatars, Gio Sumbadze, Sophia Tabatadze, Éric Troussicot, Jan Verwoert, Aleksandra Wasilkowska, et al.
Edited by Joanna Warsza.
Designed by Kasia Korczak and Krzysztof Pyda
Coordinated by Julia Missala
Once described as “Italy gone Marxist,” Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Its informal, vernacular, and palimpsestic architecture—reflected in the stunning former Ministry of Highways erected in 1975—reveals the uncanny anticipatory and progressive potential of a place where the past is neither monumentalized nor destroyed, but built upon. Taking the exhibition “Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back” (2010) as its starting point, this guidebook maps the social, urban, and art discourses of the country’s post-Soviet years as seen from its hilly capital of Tbilisi.
The publication accompanies the exhibition of the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia titled “Kamikaze Loggia,” curated by Joanna Warsza.
Copublished by the Other Space Foundation, Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory & Sternberg Press
Supported by Bank of Georgia and Erste Stiftung
One Caucasus
International festival and long-term borderland program
In the end of August we will meet in Sadakhlo, Kvemo-Kartli for the first interdisciplinary festival One Caucasus. Unique initiative of culture animators from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Poland will include concerts, workshops, film presentations and many interdisciplinary activities with participation of worldwide artists, guests from whole Caucasus and local community.
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