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Contemporary Art Archive - Tbilisi

Archive of Academic Writings

2021 Edition of the Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia

From The Inside

Installation

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