Im Rahmen des Workshops „The Voyeur“ von Natia Chikvaidze, Kerstin Möller, Giorgi Rodionov und Karolina Sobel zeigt das Kino im Blauen Salon Elene Mikaberidzes BLUEBERRY DREAM. Anschliessend wird eine Podiumsdiskussion stattfinden, zu der wir Giorgi Rodionov und Natia Chikvaidze auf der Bühne des Blauen Salons begrüßen dürfen.
Natia Chikvaidze, co-founder of Plasm Platform, dancer, performer, choreographer dealing with post-Soviet trauma and female bodies. Natia Chikvaidze graduated from the Vakhtang Chabukiani Tbilisi School of Choreography and the Ecole Supérieure de Danse de Cannes (France). As a dancer she has worked with the Cannes Jeune Ballet (France), Campanie Linga and Ballet d'Europe (Marseille, France), the Aalto Ballett Theater in Essen (Germany) and the Kamea Dance Company in Israel. She has worked with such famous choreographers as Tamir Ginz, Itzik Galili, Sharon Eyal and Ohad Naharin and the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. She works as a choreographer, dancer and teacher in Georgia and throughout Europe.
Giorgi Rodionov is a media artist and curator. With a multidisciplinary approach to artistic expression, he engages in performance, photography, participatory art, drawings, podcasts, 3D art, art books and storytelling.Giorgi's practice deals with themes such as identity conflicts, migration, queer issues and the development of new forms of existence.Giorgi's art is deeply rooted in personal experiences.His main focus remains on the South Caucasus region, which he sees as a symbolic crossroads of diversity. In 2019, Giorgi founded untitled tbilisi, an art space dedicated to promoting collaboration between artists and art activists from the South Caucasus region.
Blueberry Dreams
Led by the good-hearted father Soso, a family of four starts a blueberry farm to secure their future together. But with a home in northern Georgia, their village is close to the troubled border with the Russian-backed region of Abkhazia, where new conflicts have been rumbling for 30 years. Soso is a retired engineer, but together with his wife Nino and their sons Giorgi and Lazare, he throws himself into the ‘Plant the Future’ programme set up by the Georgian authorities to stabilise the area. Nino is haunted by memories of the war and dreams of her children experiencing the world, while Soso wants to maintain their connection to the land. But Giorgi and Lazare long for a different future, immersing themselves in anime and dreaming of visiting Japan. In the midst of their daily lives, the family navigates between hardship, joy and contemplation of a different future.