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Professional ID 4th edition: NEW SPACES ARCHITECTURE(s)

3. – 10. November

Telavi

Telavi, Georgia, 3 – 10 November 2013
4 days Seminar and Architectural Symposium
coordinated by TRAM , organized by Wine Park Telavi (Georgia)

Convened by Ana Riaboshenko
In cooperation with TASWIR projects

“NEW SPACES ARCHITECTURE“ – 4th edition of Professional ID – is a platform for urban strategy planning and architectural development cooperating with TASWIR’s methods of epistemic architectures, – applied to the theme of WINE and the Kakhety wine region.

The first seminar and architectural symposium NEW SPACES ARCHITECTURE focused on the Kakhety region’s capital of Telavi: wine capital, a university city with regional museums, art schools, several musical schools and ensembles, as well as libraries and private collections.

The aim of NEW SPACES ARCHITECTURE is to identify the artistic and cultural potential of the region, and to develop ephemeral architectural concepts and forms inspired by an encyclopedic vision of the auratic object: wine.

The Seminar and Architectural Symposium invited international architects, urban experts, curators and thinkers drawing on their capacity to envision contemporary concepts of architectural spaces and landscapes inspired by the Telavi capital of wine. Together, we developed ideas and forms for an epistemic architecture built upon the theme of “wine” and subsequent topologies that were developed in nutshells during the 4 days architectural symposiums by the participants.

A catalogue of the 4th edition of Professional ID – NEW SPACES ARCHITECTURE – will be published including theoretical and visual materials.

NEW SPACES ARCHITECTURE will prospectively be continued in fall 2014.

Participants

NEW SPACES ARCHITECTURES was convened by Ana Riaboshenko.

Participants were:
CHARLES MEREWETHER / United Kingdom, Singapore, curator & writer
SHULAMIT ÇORUH / TASWIR projects
MARCUS HILDEBRANDT/Berlin
MAARJA KASK and RALF LOOKE / Tallin, Salto Architects
MATEUSZ ADAMCZYK and AGATA WOZNICZKA / Krakow, BudCud architectural bureau
ALEXEY KONONENKO and ILYA VOZNESENSKIY/ Moscow, Iced Architects
MONIKA RYSZKA and KAMIL MIKLASZEWSKI/ Warsaw, architectural bureau +48
ANA RIABOSHENKO and MARTA TABUKASHVILI/ Tbilisi TRAM
LANA KARAIA / ICOM National Committee in Georgia
MAKA KVARATSKHELIA – Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection of Georgia.
IRINE DUMBADZE / Tbilisi , ACT
NINO TUMANOVA / Tbilisi GIS-Lab/IEC
SANDRO RAMISHVILI/ Tbilisi, Architect, GIPA Institute
MERAB GUJEJIANI /Tbilisi, Architect, GIPA Institute
ZURAB BUTZKHRIKIDZE /Telavi, Architect, Telavi MUnicipality
TSISIA AMONASVILI /Telavi University Project Marketing Management and other representatives of Telavi University, Telavi MUnicipality,
PIKRIA KUSHITASHVILI and others, Ministry of Culture and Monument protection of Georgia, Students and Telavi citizens

Professional ID 2nd edition

1. – 8. December, 2012

Telavi

Professional ID – Second Edition
1- 8 December 2012
Image: Founders of Professional ID in Telavi: Ana Riaboshenko and A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh. Photo: Marta Tabukashvili
TRAM & TASWIR Conductors of 2nd Edition: Ana Riaboshenko and Vanja Balaša

Initiator: TRAM in cooperation with TASWIR projects
Supported by the Goethe Institute
With a help of Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Ajara and Telavi Municipality

PROFESSIONAL ID – Description

The project aims to establish a platform for artistic and intellectual research and activism in-and-out of Georgia (in-and-out of other places).

Professional ID develops ideas and support collaboration between artists, writers, curators, and other creative agents who are working in and out of the public realm, in-and-out of digital and analogue networks, in-and-out of Telavi, Batumi, Tbilisi (and other cities).

The project is open to concepts, ideas, and visions developed by participants and members in various venues and contexts, focusing upon themes, artifacts, and positions depending on place and personal constellations among members.

The various workshops are open to spontaneous processes of planning and thinking. Professional ID follows up on these ideas by setting up a stage / websites / concrete platforms for the realization of projects developed during its various editions.

During the first edition in September, Professional ID collected ideas for a future TELAVI ART FESTIVAL; moreover, participants in Batumi developed an outline for further editions based upon thematic contributions to matters such as “icons,” “the manifesto,” “street art,” new video-art, etc.

Professional ID’s initiators, Ana Riaboshenko and A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh also began to work on a TASWIR Lexicon of Professional ID concepts. First entries of this lexicon were presented in a small exhibition in Tbilisi in September 2012 at the Open Society Georgia Foundation towards the end of Professional ID’s first edition.

The Second Edition of Professional ID took place in Telavi and Batumi from 1st till 8th December 2012

• Telavi – December 2-3, 2012
Visits to cultural institutions, organizations and craftsmen’s ateliers: Telavi Art School, Telavi City Library, Telavi Youth Palace, Telavi Song and Dance Ensemble, Media Café, Napareuli School Enamel and Textile Studious, Telavi University, Ceramicist Studio in Telavi, Textile Studio in Alvani, Chokha (Georgian National Dress) Studio in Telavi and Telavi Municipality Office Cultural Program.
The Project in Telavi is implementing with the cooperation of Georgian organizations like Textile Group and Ceramic office.

• Batumi – December 5-7, 2012
Visits to cultural institutions, organizations and meeting local artists: Art Museum, Museum of ethnology and history “Khatiton Akhvlediani,” University of Culture of Ajara, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Ajara, visiting potential art spaces and meeting photographers as well as other cultural representatives.

The SECOND EDITION of Professional ID took up ideas and outlooks of the first edition and developed them further. The second edition explored the various artistic, performative, and urban settings in the region, planning on a future TELAVI ART FESTIVAL. In the framework of this festival, we envision the opening of a HOUSE of TASWIR to be established in TELAVI for futher research editions of Professional ID. In Batumi, Professional ID in collaboration with Batumi artists and State support plans to create public spaces for artists.

Participants

The second edition of Professional ID was conducted by

ANA RIABOSHENKO

and

MARTA TABUKASHVILI (TRAM)

together with philosopher and anthropologist

VANJA BALAŠA (TASWIR).

Vanja Balaša, anthropologist & curator, student of philosophy and religious studies at Hamburg University.

August – November 2011 she was curator and project assistant of the ICOM Costume Committee Annual Meeting and of the XX. International Festival of Ethnological Film in the Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, Serbia.

January – April 2011 she worked as project assistant in the Project TRANSKAUKAZJA 2011.

March – December 2010 she worked as Curator at the Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, Serbia, at the Department of Design and Communication.

Since November 2012 Vanja Balaša works as project assistant for TASWIR Projects.