Exchange Academy

Program Week Three 16-23 April

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DAY 21 / Tuesday 22 April

Departures

DAY 20 / Monday 21 April

15.00 Museum Tour with Ms Irina Chotorlishvili (expert of the State Silk Museum)

17.00 Artist Talks :
Can Altay;
Vahram Agasyan;

DAY 19 / Sunday 20 April
Opening

Party at Bar Pur-Pur

DAY 18 / Saturday 19 April

Preparation for the opening

DAY 17 / Friday 18 April

Building up, preparation for the opening

DAY 16 / Thursday 17 April

PUBLIC LECTURE

CONCEPTUAL ART IN GEORGIA BY KHATUNA KHABULIANI
SCREENING OF THE VIDEOS BY NINO SEEKHNIASHVILI

DAY 15 / Wednesday 16 April

Building up, preparation for the opening

Program Week Two 9-15 April

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Week Two / plan, research

DAY 14 / Tuesday 15 April

DAY 13 / Monday 14 April
Team-session at Silk museum
Here Lali and Ani from Archidrome will be present to register (write and photograph) the course of artists’ discussions.

DAY 12 / Sunday 13 April

LECTURE

Tbilisi Architecture of 1920-ies by Maya Mania
DAY 11 / Saturday 12 April

DAY 10 / Friday 11 April
Onno Dirker

DAY 09 / Thursday 10 April
Point talks by participating artists
Discussion meeting at Kote Sulaberidze's studio

DAY 08 / Wednesday 9 April

PUBLIC LECTURE

GEORGIAN MODERNISM BY NANA KIPIANI
SCREENING OF THE FILM BY KOTE MIKABERIDZE
'MY GRANDMOTHER' 1929

Program Week One 2-8 April

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Arrival and Orientation

DAY 07 / Tuesday 8 April
Team-session at Silk museum (about plan)
Here Lali and Ani from Archidrome will be present to register (write and photograph) the course of artists’ discussions.

DAY 06 / Monday 7 April
Team-session with all at Silk museum (about first impressions, observations, possibilities).
Here Lali and Ani from Archidrome will be present to register (write and photograph) the course of artists’ discussions.

DAY 05 / Sunday 6 April
Visiting Rustavi – former industrial city next to Tbilisi and Mtskheta - old capital of Georgia, historic site next to Tbilisi.

DAY 04 / Saturday 5 April
11.00 City-tour (by Marshutka – mini bus), to Signagi, 2 hours away of Tbilisi an old beautiful village that is now being turned into the tourist attraction – being pumped up, painted, renovated etc. It is also said that the renovation is quite façade connected and things are just made into a better display.
In Signagi they have also moved Pirosmanis paintings into the newly made exhibition spaces. Pirosmani is the artist from the beginning of the 19th century. He is self-educated naive artist, surely worthwhile seeing.

DAY 03 / Friday 4 April
Walking in the city.
Visiting the area of railway station and market, around Agmashenebeli street.

DAY 02 / Thursday 3 April
12.00 Breakfast in Silk Museum
• Meeting participants of April Project, Archidrome and Silk museum team at the Silk museum (workspace).
• Touring around the Silk museum building, seeing what part of it we can use.
• Touring the permanent exhibition of the Silk museum. Tour guide is former director of the museum who saved most of the collection and still proudly working there and is meaningful within the museum.
• Introduction to our project presentation by Sophia and Onno
Diner all together in restaurant “Rachis Ubani” (Archidrome, April Project and Silk museum team).

DAY 01 / Wednesday 2 April
Artists group arrives
Meeting some participants, relaxed dinner at home, not doing much this day, waiting for the group to be complete.

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Location of the Project

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State Silk Museum
Tsabadze street 6, Tbilisi
Next to the entrance of 'Mushtaidi Park'

Images of State Silk Museum

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This project is made possible with the support of:

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