Tbilisi Project. Out of Nowhere exhibition based on five components comprising of bilingual text on paper, audio narrative, wallpaper and print.
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-CWD3
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Centre of Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Georgia
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- November
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Wood’s work within the Tbilisi project explores how Georgia’s unique position at the boundaries of East and West, situated between major empires, is evidenced in its contemporary art and culture. His interest in the relationship between the local and the global is explored with particular reference to Georgia’s unique cultural, artistic and political history, with particular focus upon the impact of recent Soviet imperialism and contemporary Capitalism. During his research trip in 2014, Wood employed a methodology akin to psycho-geographic journeys in which he incorporates urban walks with innumerable conversations and interaction with artists, local people and curators. Note-taking, photography, audio recording, video, transcribed conversations, historical and academic research and an important visit to the Garikula Art Villa underpin his processes. Upon return to the UK, salient information, largely derived from conversation, was developed through a symbiotic dynamic between academic research and studio practice. Wood’s research has developed greater insight and understanding of Georgia’s unique cultural, artistic and political history, coalescing around the country’s importance to Futurism and Dada. For example, the work of writer, typographer and artist Ilia Zdanevich (Iliazd) directly inspired the production of two new text works No Maps (after Iliazd) and Creation-Destruction, printed in the Georgian language and exhibited in the Out of Nowhere exhibition. Wood’s text in his No Maps print edition, derives from the discovery that maps themselves were banned during the Soviet era, which in addition resonates with our contemporary ‘mapless’ condition. Similarly, the print edition Creation-Destruction has its meaning derived from a legend that Tbilisi has been destroyed and rebuilt 30 times and with reference to the creative process itself. Dissemination: Exhibition, Out of Nowhere, 2014, Georgia, as part of Artisterium 7, Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events.
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- Non-English
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