Nadia Tsulukidze

Georgian Sexual Revolution

2009-03-24T13:27:00.001-07:00

Performance for You Tube

This work is connected to Georgian Rose revolution, which happened in November 2003 and was a bloodless revolution that displaced President Eduard Shevardnadze, who is mainly well known in Germany. A significant source of funding for the Rose revolution was the network of foundations and NGOs associated with American billionaire George Soros, who spent 42$ million for the overthrow of Shevardnadze. In January 2004 the leader of the Rose Revolution Michael Saakashvili won the presidential elections and took curse towards West, Micheil Saakashvili is married to Sandra E. Roelofs, of Dutch origin and has two sons, Eduard and Nikoloz. He was educated in United States and become internationally known after the war with Russia in august 2008.
Georgian Rose revolution was an inspiration for Ukrainian Orange revolution in November 2004 and Kyrgyzstan Pink or so called Tulip revolution in 2005.
My work is a first investigation into the Georgian Sexual Revolution, that didn’t happen yet in Georgia, mainly because of the lack of the time.

The Line

2009-03-24T12:46:00.000-07:00

DasArts/Block 29/2008/

2009-03-24T12:28:00.000-07:00

Who is I?
Mentor: Titus Muizelaar
www.dasarts.nl
Being condemned is freedom. I love you. That’s hard to say. But my heart can tell you. So, who am I? When walking, doing the dishes, searching the market for ingredients, jumping off the cliff in Cinque Terre in Italy, I am with you and my heart flows. And I don’t know you. I condemn you to me, because I am condemned to you. In Block 29, anyhow. Why condemned, you may think. Why that word.... Because that’s not what you want to hear right now. Surrounding is. You behold something gentle. The word has action. Both words were created but also polluted. So, again: Condemned. I grant you the transformation of this word, as I want to condemn you and make you experience how liberty thus will surround you. For the rest is illusion. And that is fundamentally different from a dream. The dream is the condemnation you don’t want to stay in.

You don’t want obstructions on your road. But you are your own obstruction. Who is I? Who are I? And what is a closet falling open? Your starting-point is DasArts, by your own choice. But when DasArts was there, you transformed it into possibility. I would like to ask you to let yourself be surrounded by DasArts. So, to be condemned.

Strindberg. August, not Augustus Strindberg. That ‘us’ shouldn’t be there. Every closet falling open does not want to be ordened, it wants to be lived. Let your closet fall open...and what do you see? That ‘us’ is the first to fall out, and you certainly don’t want that. That is how the world named you, but not who you are. And to emphasize that is condemning yourself. You focus on the detail, the law is on your side, but once again you’re in the illusion... Still with me? Essentials and details. Discernment.

Fermata

2009-03-24T12:10:00.000-07:00

Dance performance /30 min/
Theaterfestival Off Europa: Ans Mehr
Leipzig

Fermata is a notation marking directing the performer to sustain the note of a composition as long as the artistic interpretation of the performer allows. The common effect is that fermata will extend the duration of either a note or a silence at the discretion of the performer. This mark interrupts the normal tempo of a composition.

I am interested to discover the moments of interruption, using silence as a reflection to take space for new desitions.

DasArts / Block 28 / 2008 /

2008-07-08T05:05:00.000-07:00

www.dasarts.nl

RENTING THE SHADE OF A TREE.

Mentors to the Block 28 participants

Dirk Verstockt (B); Ricky Seabra (USA/BR) www.rickyseabra.com

Block 28 runs from 3 March 2008 - 9 May 2008
Semester 28 starts on 1 March 2008 and ends on 31 August 2008

The culture of fear that is rapidly getting the world in its grip stems from a vast array of developments in human societies and from the burden that our numbers are placing on the biosphere, our only and necessary 'umbilical cord' to what keeps us alive. This is becoming an impossible situation. As more and more awareness is being created, people are becoming more or less forced to actively think about and work on all different kinds of possible solutions to the vast waves of problems that will keep coming our way for the next century and counting.

Societies need to go through profound changes in order to keep the world viable for human beings. Since humans are 'predators' at the top of the ecological pyramid, they also form a cornerstone that can keep that pyramid intact for man and nature. If the 'Nature Based Internet' collapses, the consequences are incalculable.
Capitalism is not prepared to sustain its own greed over the long run, but it is the dominant economical system, give or take a few leftovers from the socialist experiments for New Societies in the 20th century (think Cuba, Burma, North Korea...). The push for total globalization is at one and the same time a disaster and possibly a part of the solutions. Or not?

The selected works below were done during this block and were ment as reacftions on topics from different lectures and discussions during the block. As they were done in very schort time (from 2 days to 1 week) there are considered to be ‘work in progreess’ and serve, as a platform for further discussions.

DasArts / Block 28 / 2008 /

2008-07-04T14:14:00.001-07:00

TWINS

/collaboration with Linda Molenar and Camilla Milena Feher/

DasArts / Block 28 / 2008 /

2008-07-04T14:05:00.000-07:00

/-/-/ FRAME /-/-/

DasArts / Block 28 / 2008 /

2008-07-04T14:01:00.002-07:00

BUILDINGS, AS MEMORIES .......

DasArts / Block 28 / 2008 /

2008-07-04T13:58:00.000-07:00

Hey Baby!

I feel good about our future!!!

DasArts / Block 28 / 2008 /

2008-07-04T13:34:00.000-07:00

Halleys comet /2051/

I am director of a big cultural centre. We sell laghing sharings and sponsor the terrorists with eco-bombs.

St. George /2007/

2008-07-04T13:25:00.000-07:00

Dance performance
Solofestival Eurythmie
Alfter bei Bonn

St. George is one of the main protectors of Georgia. Today on the freedom square of Tbilisi, as a replacement for Lenins monument there is a new golden baroque statue of St. George, which is considered to be a contemporary art work. Follow-on president George Bush’s visit in Georgia, the new government called after him one of the big avenues in Tbilisi, which makes the irony of the statue on the freedom square even more ridicules. Furthermore the Georgian Orthodox Church doesn’t aloud three-dimensional statues, despite of all; this huge monument stands clearly for the symbol of the freedom in Georgia.
The ideologies around me, changing, as quickly, as the weather, their influence on thinking and my relationship towards it, were the inspiration for this piece.

Me da shen erti vart /2007/

2008-07-04T13:13:00.000-07:00

GoetheInstitute. Tbilisi /2007/
/ with Ana Tvauri, Natia Guliashvili, Nika Lutidze and Levan Maisuradze/

In april 2007 I did series of lectures: introduction to the history of dance in 20th century. A group of students asked me to do a practical workshop with them. After two month of stretching, release techniques, improvisations and discussions about the current situation and social problems in Georgia we showed in Goethe Institute the result of our work, a performance called ‘me da shen erti vart’ / you and me are equal /

XXI

2008-07-04T13:06:00.000-07:00

Video work /2007/

XXI century. Georgia. Dark spaces. Huge, rusted mechanisms are still working. Subtitles of a mute voice. Political speeches ‘sound’, like an echo, getting louder and more absurd. Even Georgia, such a small country wants to build an empire, like in old golden times of David Agmashenebeli (XII century).

Tango-Metro

2008-07-04T12:34:00.000-07:00

Dance video /15 min / 2007

In 2005 I’ve got a permission to film in metro of Tbilisi. By this time there were no advertisements on the walls and no video screens with Georgian folk dance, as propaganda for Georgian army.
I wanted to fix this transition moment for my memories. Mertro, as a small city under the ground, with destroyed soviet monumental architecture, people with sad faces, all in black. I was touched by the idea, that there was a time when people believed, that they were building a ‘glories future for their children’, but their ‘lovers’, like in old tango songs, cheated them. Irony. Nostalgia. Unreachable love, which disappears.

2006 and 2007

2008-06-29T10:12:00.000-07:00

Together with Sophia Tabatadze founding interdisciplinary performing group

KHINKALI JUICE

please see
www.khinkalijuice.blogspot.com

JUST CHATTING

2006-11-25T12:07:00.000-08:00

DIDI Gallery
November 2005, Tbilisi
Kontakt Impro performance & video
Dance: Nadia Tsulukidze & Mamuka Samharadze
Camera: Monika Rechsteiner

Music, movement, images,
people are talking in the background....

listening and talking through the movement...

... inaudible poesy...

GEOMETRICAL SOCIETY

2006-11-25T10:44:00.000-08:00

Art Caucasus
October 2005, Tbilisi
Performance & Video
Choreography: Nadia Tsulukidze
Camera: Ana Riaboshenko

Different cultures have different faces, but we all have similarities on some level. Some human laws are the same for everybody, like geometry. We are a geometrical society.

There is something like time, rhythm, ways that cross each other. Something that belongs to everybody,

inexhaustible repetition

APOTHEKE?

2006-11-25T09:14:00.000-08:00

Westend Apotheke
Mai, 2005 Stuttgart
Dance performance & Dance video

sponsored by "Westend Apotheke"
Camera: Ana Riaboshenko

This Project took place in «Westend Apotheke" in Stuttgart. The pharmacy as an image of society, of a system, with lot’s of shelves. An exact mechanism measuring and pinning everything down. Everything has a function and correct aesthetics to produce a proper -functioning human being. This pharmacy was producing methadone, a substance that engenders different consciousness of the body. The substance abuse is placed by the society on the shelf called “illness.”

The dance video installation was part of a live performance, which took place in the pharmacy during the working hours. The Employees and customers were both participants and spectators in the same time. The customers recieved small empty medicine boxes, marked “time” within instructions how to use this empty box in case of emergency.

AV OE

2006-11-25T05:17:00.000-08:00

March 2005
Dance video
video Anna Riaboshenko

Soviet flat,

Soviet childhood,

Georgian folkdance

and ballet.

-What do you do for living? - People ask me
-Dancing.
-Oh, Georgian folkdance? - with pleased expression.
-No.
-Oh, ballet? - still quite pleased
-No.
-Oh, what are you dancing then?- with disappointment in voice, as if it can’t be serious then…

Women in Georgian folkdances represent Grace itself which flutters above the floor reaching the divine heights. Women’s role in classical ballet is imagined in a similar fashion.
Thinking back to my soviet pioneer childhood and mixing the folk tunes with electronic beats I imagined being a prima ballerina.

GVELTEVZA

2006-11-24T12:34:00.000-08:00

BERLIN CLUB
January 2005,Tbilisi
Video: Ana Riaboshenko
Music: Dima Dadiani & Dato Margiani

Physical body has a sex. If you are a woman then you are not a man. If something is white, it is not black. If this is moral, then the opposite is amoral…This dualistic way of thinking dictates our body binary rules without leaving any space for a third possibility.

Rediscovering Georgia I observed that people’s behaviour was divided in two categories: if you are a women, you have to behave like ...as a man you have to do..., I was wondering about part in my body which has no sex and I felt that there was no place in society for this part of me, simply a human and not a female or male... This part was bound and constrained could not express itself.

WDANT

2006-11-24T10:54:00.000-08:00

October, 2004, Tbilisi
Dance Performance
Video: Ana Riaboshenko

What Does an ANgel Think…. when
it walks through the city, lies on the street, smells garbage..?.

There were people standing on the stairs
Shadows of trees
I walked through them.
I met a smile
And clamped over it….

I just came back from Germany after leaving and studding in "West Paradise" for eight years, I was exploring my own country, where I felt my self to be a foreigner, lot's of things have changed. I could understand the language, but couldn not understand people's behaviour. I began discovering my relationships to this odd space which was very familiar and at the same time very new to me. I was looking for balance.