CULTURE: MOVES #50: Giorgi Maisuradze - on Parajanov May 14, 2013

Sergei Parajanov (1924 born in Tbilisi, Georgia, 1990 died in Yerewan, Armenia) is one of the most important and prolific filmmakers of the 20th Century.

Under hostile conditions for independent artists, under Soviet censorship and criminal prosecution – as an artist as well as an homosexual – Parajanov succeeded in developing and completing his very own stile. With his moderate oeuvre of less than 20 films he inspired and still inspires innumerable artists, writers, musicians, and – of course – filmmakers.

Giorgi Maisuradze – a Berlin based Cultural Studies academic, writer and translator – will report in image, text and sound on Parajanov.

Image Movement

Oranienburger Strasse 18, 10178 Berlin

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SCIENCE: WiP Session 6: An Archaeological Survey of the Vani Site

Wednesday, March 2 · 6:00pm - 7:30pm

ISET Conference Hall, Zandukeli 16, Tbilisi

NOTE: This talk starts at 6:15 PM !!!

Ryan Hughes, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan

"An Archaeological Survey of the Vani Site"
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This session is an "encore presentation" from last season. Since it was one of the best presentations last year, and few were able to attend because it took place at the height of the fall conference season, we have asked Ryan to present again. This is a very well presented talk with fascinating visuals about the really remarkable things that have been discovered in Vani and about the technology and methodology used in current and future work there, so we encourage everybody to attend!

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The W-i-P is an ongoing academic discussion series based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place every Wednesday at the International School of Economics building (16 Zandukeli Street). The purpose of the series is to provide support and productive criticism to those researching and developing academic projects pertaining to Georgia and the Caucasus region.

Would you like to present at one of the W-i-P sessions? Send an e-mail to wip@crrccenters.org .

The Works-in-Progress series is co-sponsored by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) and American Councils for International Education. It is free and open to the public, and all interested persons are welcome and encouraged to attend.

ANNOUNCEMENT: SHORT-TERM GRANTS FOR GEORGIAN PhD. STUDENTS

Dear Sir/ Madam,

The ACADEMIC SWISS CAUCASUS NET (ASCN; http://www.ascn.ch/) offers short-term grants to Georgian PhD. students in social sciences or humanities.

Selected grant holders have the opportunity to spend up to three months at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland (www.unifr.ch) to work on their PhD. thesis or to participate in academic conferences. They have full access to the University library and benefit from state of the art research infrastructure. Besides, these grants give young researchers the opportunity to extend their academic networks by meeting scholars in their field of expertise.

Grants cover visa costs, travel costs, accommodation as well as daily expenses (on the basis of per diems). Accommodation is organized directly by the ASCN Programme.

Applications can be made anytime during the year. For organization matters, candidates must apply one month in advance.

General information about the grant programme as well as the application form is to be found on www.ascn.ch.

We would be grateful if you could disseminate this information to potential candidates and interested scholars.

Best regards,

Denis Dafflon

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Denis Dafflon
Programme Coordinator
ACADEMIC SWISS CAUCASUS NET (ASCN)
University of Fribourg
Interfaculty Institute for Central and Eastern Europe (IICEE)
Bd de Pérolles 90 1700 Fribourg/Switzerland
Phone: +41 26 300 79 82
Mobile: +41 79 303 43 44
denis.dafflon@unifr.ch
www.ascn.ch

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The ACADEMIC SWISS CAUCASUS NET (ASCN) is a programme aiming to promote social sciences and humanities in the South Caucasus. The different activities foreseen in the programme aim to contribute to the emergence of a new generation of talented researchers in the three republics of the South Caucasus. Promising junior researchers are supported through research projects, capacity-building trainings and scholarships. The emphasis of the programme is on the promotion of individuals. In order to ensure sustainability, the ASCN programme puts emphasis on international networking and thus promotes cooperation between scholars based in the South Caucasus and scholars in Switzerland.

ART: A. Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Art Academy Big Exhibition Hall (alexandragabunia.blogspot.com)

Management of the Academy Big Exhibition Hall
Management of the hall is accomplished by the Board, formed in accordance with the Order, issued by the Rector of the Tbilisi State Academy of Art. The board includes nine members, who are representing the academy faculties and administrations. The board is headed by the Rector and is entitled to consider the proposal or suggestion, concerning the academy big exhibition hall. The board, upon consideration of other proposals and also, taking into account the academy interests, resolves the year-long plan for arranging exhibitions and other activities.

The board will discuss proposals only in written form. The board meets once in a week, on Tuesdays and comes to the conclusion by majority of votes.

Characteristics of the Exhibition Hall
Exhibition Hall is the newly renovated space, the total square area of which is 320 square meters (40X8 m2). The hall is divided in two type spaces, equipped with heating-conditioning systems, modern lightening system corresponding with the museum and gallery standards, as well as, projector and sound enhancing system. Artworks should be located along the walls of 100 meters long, on special holders, distance from the holders to the floor is 4 meters long, and distance from the floor to the highest point of the ceiling is 9 meters.

Acting days and hours
The Exhibition hall is open from Monday to Friday, acting hours: 11:00-18:00 .
Saturday-Sunday is considered to be the extra hours, that will be represented in renting tariffs

Hall renting tariffs
Applying the hall for activities is depended on various types of expenses. The daily renting tariff is 170 GEL, that includes the hall lightening, heating-conditioning, cleaning, protection, exhibition monitoring, artworks installation and de-installation expenses. In non-working days, the hall renting expenses will be added by 15% of the daily tariff for each non-working day.

Tariffs
1-5 days-170 GEL per day
1-10 days-120 GEL per day

An exception from the rule may be the case if the board concludes that the proposal satisfies the art academy interests and priorities from an educational point of view, as well as encouragement of contemporary art and its popularization, the proposal will be freed from covering the expenses. The preference will be given to international projects, as well as proposals, presented by various international organizations. The board will have this kind of right only several times in a year. The solution will be achieved by majority of votes. The academy Rector is entitled to have 2 votes.

For beeing accorded permission to arrange exhibitions and other activities in the exhibition hall, the following documentation is needed to be presented:
Proposal to the name of the Rector of the Tbilisi State Academy of Art proposal should be written on a letterhead, sealed and signed on behalf of the organizer side.
In case of private person, the proposal should be attached by ID Card/passport copy, noting the living place and signature CV of the proposal author and project overview (concept, description). The project overview should include number of days, needed for the noted exhibition (exhibition period), number of artworks, to be exhibited, approximate sizes and material.

Portfolio of an author (artist), or materials, representing the realized projects in case the project is presented by a curator.

Author of a propopsal should envisage the following:
The uncompleted applications shouldn’t be received!
In case of refusal, the supervisory board isn’t responsible for explaining the reason.
If the proposal author is a student or a teacher of the Tblisi State Academy of Art, he/she is entitled to make a proposal without approval of his/her faculty and head of the direction. The board is entitled to conclude without their recommendation.

Submitting the proposals to the Chancellor’s Office of the Tbilisi State Academy of Art:
every day (except Saturday-Sunday), from 11a.m. to 6 p.m.,

Address:
Apolon Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Art.
22, Griboedov street, 0108, Tbilisi, Georgia
E-mail: skilasonia@art.edu.ge
Tel: (+995 95) 433 360
Fax: (+995 32) 954562

CALL: 5-year programme from ACADEMIC SWISS CAUCASUS NET - ASCN (ascn.ch)

The ACADEMIC SWISS CAUCASUS NET (ASCN), launched in 2009 and funded by GEBERT RÜF STIFTUNG, is a 5-year programme aiming at promoting and strengthening social sciences and humanities in the South Caucasus. For this purpose, and besides capacity building trainings and scholarships, funding is provided for research projects conducted by researchers from the region.

The ASCN Management presently launches a call for proposals in social sciences, open to researchers from and resident in Georgia. The research topics/project proposals to be submitted should be relevant to transition themes, and they should address and deal with specific issues at stake. Furthermore, the proposals must fit into the umbrella topic "Transformation, Identities and Social Capital"

Budget line: Swiss Francs (CHF) 20'000 maximum per year.
Maximum duration: 2 years
Application deadline: 7 June 2010
For detailed information: www.ascn.ch

Thank you for widely disseminating this information.

Best regards, Denis Dafflon

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Denis Dafflon
Programme Coordinator
ACADEMIC SWISS CAUCASUS NET (ASCN)
University of Fribourg / Interfaculty Institute for Central and
Eastern Europe (IICEE)
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg/Switzerland
Phone: +41 26 300 79 82
Mobile: +41 79 303 43 44
E-mail: denis.dafflon@unifr.ch
Website: www.ascn.ch

PHOTOGRAPHY: Mafgroup is the artistic union of innovative artists and professional photographers in Georgia (mafgroup.wordpress.com)

This is the first generation of artists who get the professional education in the field of photography – October 2001 CCCD established the Caucasian Institute of Photography and New Media in Tbilisi. The Institute was located in the Carvasla, but from March 2006 integrated in Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, with the name – Institute of Optical Imaging.


mafgroup.wordpress.com

BLOG: Critical thoughts about Georgian Contemporary Art Situation. By Nini Palavandishvili (georgianfemaleartists.blogspot.com)

(Raw material, fragment)


Contemporary art and contemporary art environment is very young term in Georgia. In 2004, as i returned from Germany to Georgia, the situation i found was very difficult in terms of there was no public present of contemporary art scene in Georgia. All the active artist were working in their ateliers and there was no communication taking place in the general public. There are several problems, which are reciprocal and accumulate a general situation which we face today in Georgia's art scene.

There is no pre-programmed residency available in Tbilisi (there are art pensions for artists), and very rear opportunities for curators and theoreticians to work in and about Georgia and Caucasus. It is important to stress that our residency program is emphasizing a collaborative process with institutions, organizations and culture producers from the Caucasus region to strengthen and extend the artistic foundation of this area and to encourage and stimulate the exchange of knowledge and the production of significant cultural projects on long-term basis.
geoair.blogspot.com
www.archidrome.blogspot.com
georgianartistsarchidrome.blogspot.com
Since couple of years Georgian ministry of culture started to support Georgian art scene in some way, with their financial support Georgia is represented at Venice Biannale since 2007. Since two years Artisterium - International Contemporary Art Exhibition takes place in Tbilisi www.artisterium.org There are several curators, interested in Georgian art scene, supporting it and contributing to its development, Daniel Bauman is organising since 2004 international art projects called Tbilisi. www.tbilisi2.com
Also Goethe Institute and British Council in Georgia are supporting exchange between contemporary artist from and to Georgia very much.

full article in the amazing blog by Nino Biniashvili >>>

JOB: Lecturers in the Caucasus University (jobs.ge)

Published: May 25 / Deadline: Jun 16

Caucasus University (Caucasus School of Media), one of the leading international universities in Caucasus with high standards of teaching and research, is seeking Lecturers in a number of disciplines. Description of vacancies is provided below. Interested candidates should provide the following documentation as part of their application:

1. Resume (CV) with photo

2. Reference contact information (name, position, contact phones)

3. Copy of ID card

4. Cover letter

5. Detailed course syllabus in the area requested (the program should cover 15 weekly meetings per semester, with each meeting consisting from three contact hours).

Please e-mail the application to the following three e-mail addresses simultaneously:

hra@csb.ge lili@csb.ge nmaruashvili@cu.edu.ge

(please indicate in the subject line the vacancy you are applying for).

Contact persons: Ms. Lili Bibilashvili, Ms. Lia Chakhunashvili.

Deadline for submission: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 18:00.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

1. Lecturer in Philosophy, Undergraduate ProgramRequired knowledge, skills and experience:

** At least master's degree in Philosophy;

** Western education/long term training preferred;

** Teaching experience preferred;

** Fluency in Georgian and in some European language (English or other).

2. Lecturer in History of Culture (with emphasis on 20th century), Undergraduate ProgramRequired knowledge, skills and experience:

** At least master's degree in Culture Studies, Philosophy or a related discipline.

** Western education/long term training preferred;

** Teaching experience preferred;

** Fluency in Georgian and in some European language (English or other).