In a performance called „Weightlifters“ the artists made an attempt to achieve completely unrealistic results and become quasi-professional weightlifters after three months of physical training. They were instructed by professional trainers from the Georgian Weightlifting Federation who had in the past coached Georgian Olympic champions.

The performance symbolizes the competition of non-EU countries to reach the widely recognized standards of the Western world in a short period of time. „Weightlifters“ parodies this rush and desire to enter Western international organizations like the EU and the NATO and simultaneously criticizes the high standards of these organizations that are difficult to achieve. Moreover, the project simulates the corporate „ethics“ of Western societies manifested in the rules of the sports games and shows the similarities between the two. The project blurs the boundaries of art, sports, and politics and demonstrates the mixed cultural „bouillon,“ in which one single defined space no longer exists.

The action of professional weight lifting competition has been staged in art galleries. The group has turned artistic space into competition place and has explored sport as a form of liminal performance. Artists strip off their artistic identity and make symbolic action to be reinstated with altered identity of sportsmen in normative reality of consumer society.