Friday, December 15, 2006
Working title: ‘Common Goal’ / a sketch for working with BC
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Organizing a travel-project through Caucasus and countries around Caucasus, that will have as its’ goal to find/work on common goals.
Many artists talk and work about the same things but they remain in isolation. If we, artists don’t start talking to each other, do not search for the common directions, if we don’t realize that ideas have to be shared and that we will only achieve anything significant from a common ground, we will remain small countries with insignificant cultural lives slavishly following the dominant trend. We will condemn ourselves to always being one step – or several steps – behind.
Needles to say that, no significant cultural development can take place in a region where national borders between states remain largely closed, especially when we are talking about countries as tiny as Armenia, whose territory covers 29,800 km²and has a population of 3.5 million people, Georgia, which covers 69,700²km and has a population of 4.5 million people, and Azerbaijan, which covers 86,600 km²and has a population 8.5 million people. What is more, these tiny counties have a tendency to get smaller and smaller: some having regions in a state of semi-conflict, others in a state of frozen conflict; some with territories recognized by international bodies such as the UN, others with unrecognized territories, living in a state of legal limbo.
Meanwhile these countries are very interesting ground for the artists to work and to react upon. Caucasus is very alive region with constant changes and adaptations. Looking/defining the common goals for the Caucasian artists together with the British participants can unfold very interesting results. The look from the inside and outside together can bring up surprising observations.
During this project core part of the group will travel together and others will join in in their regions for shorter amount of time. There will be place for the discussions, workshops and presentations. Artists will be asked to create some works on the spot, in unexpected places (old soviet shopping moll in the centre of the village centre) and later to present it to the others with the background information etc.
// posted by Sophia Tabatadze @ 12:04 PM 
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Hi S,
Good proposal! Now it's about what kind of artists/participants will we look for and how and defining what GeoAIR's role will be exactly. Before I go intro these practical and content questions I pasted the text with some corrections below. Since I cannot change that you have to paste it in.
Organizing a travel-project through Caucasus and countries around Caucasus, that will have as its’ goal to find/work on common goals.
Many artists talk and work about the same things but they remain in isolation. If we, artists don’t start talking to each other, do not search for the common directions, if we don’t realize that ideas have to be shared and that we will only achieve anything significant if we work from a common ground, we will remain small countries with insignificant cultural lives slavishly following the dominant trend. We will condemn ourselves to always being one step – or several steps – behind.
Needles to say that, no significant cultural development can take place in a region where national borders between states remain largely closed, especially when we are talking about countries as tiny as Armenia, whose territory covers 29,800 km²and has a population of 3.5 million people, Georgia, which covers 69,700²km and has a population of 4.5 million people, and Azerbaijan, which covers 86,600 km²and has a population 8.5 million people. What is more, these tiny counties have a tendency to get smaller and smaller: some having regions in a state of semi-conflict, others in a state of frozen conflict; some with territories recognized by international bodies such as the UN, others with unrecognized territories, living in a state of legal limbo.
Meanwhile these countries are very interesting ground for the artists to work and to react upon. The Caucasus is very alive region with constant changes and adaptations. Looking/defining the common goals for the Caucasian artists together with the British participants can unfold very interesting results. The perspective from the inside and outside together can bring up surprising observations.
During this project the core part of the group will travel together and others will join in in their regions for shorter amount of time. There will be place for the discussions, workshops and presentations. Artists will be asked to create some works on the spot, in unexpected places (old soviet shopping mall in the centre of the village centre) and later to present it to the others with the background information.
Good proposal! Now it's about what kind of artists/participants will we look for and how and defining what GeoAIR's role will be exactly. Before I go intro these practical and content questions I pasted the text with some corrections below. Since I cannot change that you have to paste it in.
Organizing a travel-project through Caucasus and countries around Caucasus, that will have as its’ goal to find/work on common goals.
Many artists talk and work about the same things but they remain in isolation. If we, artists don’t start talking to each other, do not search for the common directions, if we don’t realize that ideas have to be shared and that we will only achieve anything significant if we work from a common ground, we will remain small countries with insignificant cultural lives slavishly following the dominant trend. We will condemn ourselves to always being one step – or several steps – behind.
Needles to say that, no significant cultural development can take place in a region where national borders between states remain largely closed, especially when we are talking about countries as tiny as Armenia, whose territory covers 29,800 km²and has a population of 3.5 million people, Georgia, which covers 69,700²km and has a population of 4.5 million people, and Azerbaijan, which covers 86,600 km²and has a population 8.5 million people. What is more, these tiny counties have a tendency to get smaller and smaller: some having regions in a state of semi-conflict, others in a state of frozen conflict; some with territories recognized by international bodies such as the UN, others with unrecognized territories, living in a state of legal limbo.
Meanwhile these countries are very interesting ground for the artists to work and to react upon. The Caucasus is very alive region with constant changes and adaptations. Looking/defining the common goals for the Caucasian artists together with the British participants can unfold very interesting results. The perspective from the inside and outside together can bring up surprising observations.
During this project the core part of the group will travel together and others will join in in their regions for shorter amount of time. There will be place for the discussions, workshops and presentations. Artists will be asked to create some works on the spot, in unexpected places (old soviet shopping mall in the centre of the village centre) and later to present it to the others with the background information.
What about inviting Nathaniel to travel along as well and write about the whole thing?
I have practical questions and suggestions.
the group: - who and how many are in the core group?
- is Turkey involved? - who and how many people will get involved in the regions? - What can we learn from Europe lost and found?
The locations: - we should find partners that can access special locations for making contextual work and the core group pre-define interesting contexts, so maybe the core group should do the first part of the project defining these contexts (amongst other things)
The presentation: how do you want to make the presentation interesting for people from outside of the Caucasus and the UK? This could be a first step in making a very interesting international traveling presentation about what is going on in the Caucasus.... or maybe I am going too far now... and maybe it is too much of a research project for that.
General: what kind of relations do you see between this and the ToD project?
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I have practical questions and suggestions.
the group: - who and how many are in the core group?
- is Turkey involved? - who and how many people will get involved in the regions? - What can we learn from Europe lost and found?
The locations: - we should find partners that can access special locations for making contextual work and the core group pre-define interesting contexts, so maybe the core group should do the first part of the project defining these contexts (amongst other things)
The presentation: how do you want to make the presentation interesting for people from outside of the Caucasus and the UK? This could be a first step in making a very interesting international traveling presentation about what is going on in the Caucasus.... or maybe I am going too far now... and maybe it is too much of a research project for that.
General: what kind of relations do you see between this and the ToD project?
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