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

Suffocation Via Butterfly Effect

2017

The initiative group “ALGORITHM F5” analytically reinterprets material and non-material past experience and tries to connect it logically with the present. Museum algorithm, as an order of determined activity, introduces multimedia and collaborative project – “Suffocation Via Butterfly Effect” within exhibitional experiment. Through observation of time, transformation of human being and constant changes “ALGORITHM F5” researches different descriptors: everyday life, consumer society, urban spaces, nostalgia-diffusion of feelings and contrast ideas connects visual art and events of museum life. Losing a feeling of being in present, reflection of disapearence, allusion- transforms unusable space of museum basement into the connection of associative labyrinth, where photo-installation, conceptual narratives, projection of texts, sound, light and site-specific art objects corresponds to destructive feelings of contemporary man. Vague inner feelings materialize by losing balance between reality and fantasy. Multimedia art pieces aggravate imaginary, emotional condition - while virtual simulation asks dual questions about the eternal existential problems such as: beauty, desire, intuition, artificiality, seductive power of illusion in brutal reality. With the result of subjective self-expression, publicity of unspeakable, personal and impersonal senses in “suffocated”, unusable museum space leads a visitor to spiral movement. At the same time, accumulated energy behind the structure (space and human imagination) is aimed to provoke dual questions:

- What is suffocation, emotional state of gasp or simulation?

- What is “butterfly effect” in virtual reality?

- What is the Vice Versa of Voyeuristic fiction?

- What is the challenge of changes?

- And, what is the next step?

- Is choice of man into the process of modeling?

Curators of the exhibition, participants and group members: Mariam Shergelashvili-Author of conceptual narratives.

Konstantine Bolqvadze- Author of photo-series.

Elisabed Rekhviashvili-Project Coordinator

Nino Kublashvili-Designer

Invited artists during the exhibition: Merab Gugunashvili, Gvantsa Jishkariani.

The project was realized within prize fund of joint contest: ”Modeling the Future” organized by The Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and Peter Moennig Foundation. Project group is grateful to The State Silk Museum for support and technical provision.