From The Inside
Mananiko Kobakhidze
audio installation
2020
Concrete is compact and condensed. It’s a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that hardens over time. Popularity of concrete grew over the centuries and today we have raw buildings. Almost without sign of human presence.
Concrete walls reflect noise and most of the time they absorb it.
My hometown has transformed over the years, it became a concrete jungle. At the first session of Super deep media, we were asked to bring “Super deem media obj.”, for me it’s brutalist soviet architecture, that has swallowed the authenticity of Tbilisi and yet again, had brought something unique to it.
A person being in those buildings hears the only possible sound: wind.
By creating a metaphor of wind, I wanted to give other people possibility to hear what is inside concrete structure, how lively it is.
Hochschule fuer Kunste Bremen, class of Ralf Baecker, WS 19/20