Thursday, April 10, 2014

VACANT TBILISI: Exhibition, Presentation, film screening - Saturday,12 April in Tbilisi




Final presentation of 10-Day workshop focused on issue of vacant and abondoned buildings and lots in Tbilisi. By mapping empty properties, researching planning instruments, architectural tools and by site-interventions the workshop aimed to point the possibility of temporary use of empty properties and their conversion for another use.

PROGRAMM:

18:00 - "STATION BABINA" – EXHIBITION OPENING
Former Bus Station,
8, Zviad Gamsakhurdia right bank (Next to Galaktioni (Marjanishvili) bridge

Former bus station which has been vacant for long time and used only as a garbage bin will alive in frame of artistic intervention. This place will become a meeting point of local artist scene with everyday users, who are mostly car mechanikers and their customers. Their interests are joint on phenomenon of "car passion" which will be shared through specific atmosphere of abondoned soviet building.

20:00 "Cobra" Park
48, Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue (Next to main Post-office)
Festive opening of public green area which has been changed in frame of workshop from invisible to lively public space.

VACANT TBILISI project PRESENTATION
One of the target of the project is to help NGOs, social enterprises as well as community groups with social objectives to find and access vacant urban properties for temporary use. Through temporary use of these spaces can be rescued from total destruction as many of them are out of use, abandoned and due to variety of reasons, for example insufficient financial means state or private owner has no possibility to take care. Through temporary usage NGOs, social enterprises, community and individuals raise awareness and create other possibilities and functions for out of use infrastructure.
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WANDERING BOOKS

everyone will have a possibility to bring and in exchange to take for him / her interesting book from the park library.
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TBILISI FROM DUSK TILL DOWN - FILM SCREENING
40 min., Poland /Georgia, 2013

The film was made by film students of Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgian State University and Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management (GIPA) under artistic supervision of Pawel Loziński, Rafał Listopad and Wojciech Staroń as a part of the documentary project “The World from Dawn till Dusk” by Mirosław Dembiński and Maciej J. Drygas.
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Film will be presented by one of the project participants student: Vakho Jajanidze

This event is organized by GeoAIR and 4AM (CZ), KEK (HU) in collaboration with CCA-Tbilisi, kindly supported by ArtArea TV 2.0 and Tbilisi city hall - Municipal Department of ecology and planting.


"Vacant Tbilisi" is part of SPACES project, funded by the European Union through the Eastern Partnership Culture Programme and supported by STEP Beyond Travel Grant (ECF Lab).

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