Tbilisi 16 takes place in the small village of Shindisi, just above Tbilisi, on an empty lot of land where we will build a stage. There, on September 1, 2, and 3, a series of performances, concerts, presentations, and talks will be staged, open to the public, and for free. We daily start at 4pm and it runs until 9pm. On the last day, on September 4th, this festivalesque exhibition ends with a big dinner and an open microphone.
Tbilisi 16 is open to the public at all times, and will be documented on our website: kunsthallezurich.ch/en/tbilisi-16

Participating artists, projects and collectives: Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Marie Angeletti, Ei Arakawa, Levan Asabashvili (Urban Reactor), Géraldine Beck & Miriam Laura Leonardi, Bouillon Group, Danarti Magazine, Dima Dadiani, Nikolas Gambaroff, GeoAIR (Nini Palavandishvili, Data Chigholashvili), Tue Greenfort, Karl Holmqvist, Marc Hunziker & Chantal Kaufmann & Rafal Skoczek (UP STATE), Yannic Joray, Emil Michael Klein, Tobias Madison, Nik O Nik, Gela Patashuri, Leila Peacock, Emanuel Rossetti, Georgia Sagri, Dennis Schroer & Hannes Schmidt (Dingum), Scrimpy, Stefan Tcherepnin, Tobias Spichtig, Ramaya Tegegne, Traveling Art Books, Hanna Törnudd, Andro Wekua, and others.

Curated and organized by Elene Abashidze (independent curator, Tbilisi), Michelle Akanji (Kunsthalle Zürich), Daniel Baumann (Kunsthalle Zürich), Ana Chorgolashvili (independent curator, Tbilisi), Irine Jorjadze (independent curator, Tbilisi), Nana Kipiani (art historian, Tbilisi), Julia Moritz (Kunsthalle Zürich), Gela Patashuri (artist, Tbilisi)

This is the program:

Still in flux. On site and off stage projects by Ketuta Alexi-Mekhsvili (Berlin), Marie Angeletti (Paris/Berlin), Bouillon Group (Tbilisi) Nikolas Gambaroff, Tue Greenfort (Berlin/Zürich), Yannic Joray (Zürich), Emil Michael Klein (Zürich), Gela Patashuri (Tbilisi), Emanuel Rossetti (Basel), Georgia Sagri (Athens/New York), Stefan Tcherepnin (New York), Hanna Törnudd (New York), Andro Wekua (Berlin)

Thursday, September 1, 2016, starting at 4 pm:
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4 pm-5pm Shindisi Ensemble Workshop by Stefan Tcherepnin. All welcome!
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Leila Peacock (Zürich), The Fourth Wall in a Fugue State, 2016 (English and Georgian, with Tobias Spichtig and Levan Chogoshvili)
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Ei Arakawa (New York), Deda Bodzi (Mother Vertical). Love Sex SOS! starring Ketuta Alexi-Mekhsvili, Ei Arakawa & Gela Pathashuri, Marina Gambaroff, Karl Holmqvist, Lisa Jo, Paata Sabelashvili, Part 1
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Levan Asabashvili (Urban Reactor, Tbilissi) and Launch of Danarti no. 4: Tbilisi (on Soviet architecture in Tbilisi). Edited by Ana Chorgolashvili (Tbilisi)
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Georgia Sagri (Athens/New York), Long Live The Lions Wolves, 2014 | Performance, audio, duration 30m | Athens Toy, 2014, Power point presentation, video HD, duration 10m (in loop)
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Inauguration of No trees in the forest by Marc Hunziker, Chantal Kaufmann and Rafal Skoczek (Zürich).
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Film by Adelita Hosnibey, Story of the Heavens and Our Planet, 2007, video
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Inauguration of Traveling Art Books (Tbilisi)

Friday, September 2, 2016, starting at 4 pm:
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4 pm-5pm Shindisi Ensemble Workshop by Stefan Tcherepnin. All welcome!
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Ramaya Tegegne, (Geneva), Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz, 2016, part 1
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Leila Peacock (Zürich), The Fourth Wall in a Fugue State, 2016 (Georgian, with Levan Chogoshvili)
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Reading Dada Reading. In French, English, and Georgian. With Paata Shamugia, Marie Angeletti and others.
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Ramaya Tegegne, (Geneva), Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz, 2016, part 2
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Ei Arakawa (New York), Deda Bodzi (Mother Vertical). Love Sex SOS! starring Ketuta Alexi-Mekhsvili, Ei Arakawa & Gela Pathashuri, Marina Gambaroff, Karl Holmqvist, Lisa Jo, Paata Sabelashvili, Part 2
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Ramaya Tegegne, (Geneva), Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz, 2016, part 2
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Dingum (Berlin)
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Nik O Nik (Tbilisi), Armed Forces, Episode 1 – 3 (2016, 4 min.), and launch of Danarti no.3: Bianca (on LGBTQI in Tbilisi). Edited by Elene Abashidze (Tbilisi)
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Scrimpy (Elise Duryee-Browner und Damon Sfetsios, Brooklyn)
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Nana Kipiani (Tbilisi) presents the film I Am Cuba (1964) von Mikhail Kalatozov

Saturday, September 3 2016, starting at 4 pm:
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4 pm-5pm Shindisi Ensemble Workshop by Stefan Tcherepnin. All welcome!
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Ei Arakawa (New York), Deda Bodzi (Mother Vertical). Love Sex SOS! starring Ketuta Alexi-Mekhsvili, Ei Arakawa & Gela Pathashuri, Marina Gambaroff, Karl Holmqvist, Lisa Jo, Paata Sabelashvili, Part 3
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Hanna Törnudd (New York)
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Géraldine Beck (Geneva) / Miriam Laura Leonardi (Zurich), Stage Directions, 2016
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Leila Peacock (Zürich), The Fourth Wall in a Fugue State, 2016 (English, with Tobias Spichtig)
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Films by Marie Angeletti (Paris/Berlin)
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Dima Dadiani (Tbilisi)
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At midnight (locaton to be announced): Karl Holmqvist (Berlin), Tobias Madison (New York), Tobias Spichtig (Berlin), RANT CHANT, 2016

Sunday, September 4, 2016, starting at 6 pm:
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Georgia Sagri, presentation & discussion of ‘Υλη [matter] HYLE, “What can be the next move?” (hyle.gr | hyle.mobi)
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Dinner and microphones & a contribution by Ketuta Alexi-Mekhsvili (Berlin) and a concert by Stefan Tcherepnin

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