Future Memory
Is it possible to remember the future?
The FUTURE is always present; one needs only to make up one’s mind to go there.
Memory is the imprinting of information, data backup and recovery.
In time Memory will change, transform and lose
Lost Memory are disappeared people and forgotten places.
It is what happened and we do not remember. It is what was in the past and no more exists…
What’s no longer remembered, it's never happened.
If we forget the past, we won’t remember any of the future.
Knowledge of the past is the creation of future memory which eventually enables us to identify it .
How to restore the past?
How to remember the future?
Art Villa Garikula presents the 8th International Festival of Contemporary Art in Honor of The Brothers Zdanevich - Fest I Nova “Future Memory”.
Apart from the Bolgarski Palace, it will also be held in different public areas of Akhalkalaki and Garikula villages. Both local and international artists are bringing back to life the derelict, forgotten public areas and try to convert them into temporary art spaces.
In Akhalkalaki the villagers will involved in transformation process. By engaging the local populace and taking the art into public space, art goes beyond itself and asks critical questions about the future.
Bolgarski palace, abandoned cinema, the so-called “Exchange” gathering place, the cobbler 's workshop, the village store and castle-walls as well as the abandoned orphanage – all these make up an incomplete list of places where artists will tell stories of forgotten people and places.
Once called Mepiskalaki, (king’s town) then turned into Tsitelkalaki, nowadays Akhalkalaki – is a village which keeps countless forgotten stories and secrets. Day after day, the memory of this place is falling apart and getting lost.
By observing Akhalkalaki, we may clearly see the social, cultural and economic problems of a post-Soviet country with western course.
The past is forgotten, the present abandoned, future is delayed.
Narrating and analyzing the past with the language of art is giving to us an unexpected possibility of computing and imagining of the future.
Fest I Nova 2016 /Future memory / First Part of The Festival Program
29 of May - Bolgarski’s Palace – Art Villa Garikula
13:00 Tour in Garikula/Akhalkalaki
14:00 Flea Market
15:00 Fest i Nova 2016 - project presentation.
Discussion topic - “future of the art and future art”
Importance of the art spaces in regions - Tornike Adamashvili, Sophia Kilasonia, Karaman Kutateladze
Initiative in village - Ana Margvelashvili
Present and future of the cultural policy - Tamar Tsulukidze
Participation and art - Group “Bouillon”, Lali Pertenava
Creation and transformation of place - Levan Ghambashidze
Art in future - Zura Jishkariani
16:00 Music Performance
Buses Stop at the Rose Revolution Square (Radisson Blue Iveria Hotel) at 12:00 PM .
One way fee is 1:50 Gel
25 of June Tseretlebi’s Palace
Group “Bouillon”
Irakli Lobzhanidze
Ana Chaduneli
Qeu Mepharishvili and Salome Maka Kiladze
Gvantsa Jishkariani
Group “Sekator“
Nino Zirakishvili
Solomon Razmadze
Lia Bagrationi
Dato Mikhailidi
Nastasia Arabuli
Ana Kochiashvili and Zizi Nishnianidze
Tamar Chaduneli
Village club
Free screenings ("Ahuahu" Foundation)
"Indigo" Magazine
Natalie Avaliani
Marita Rurua and Mariel Tskhvedi
Elene Pasuri
Curated by: Mariam Natroshvili/Detu Jintcharadze
Coordinator: Tinna Siradze
Festival is supported my Ministry of Culture of Georgia.