Lazika - Ghost City
Videos, photographs, 2014
Wikipedia: "An intent to construct a new large settlement, with the potential to make the city into the country’s second largest—after the capital Tbilisi—and a major economic center of western Georgia, was unveiled by President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili on December 4, 2011. The name "Lazika" is a reference to the Greco-Roman desig- nation of this region, a part of ancient Colchis. Critics have pointed out to the potential harm to the flora and fauna of the Kolkheti National Park, which lies adjacent to the area. On September 24, 2012, President Saakashvili inaugurated the first building, that of the city’s administration, in Lazika and unveiled several other projects. The incoming Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said, after his coalition’s victory in the October 1, 2012 legislative election, that construction of Lazika was not feasible."
Artists' Bio:
On the streets, bridges and blank walls. In strange cities, forgotten stations, absurd buildings, ghost bathhouses, white cubes, abandoned shooting ranges, non-existing factories. Anywhere: art for us is a game. Forbidden, magic and ephemeral game to change everything. Most of our concepts are connected to architecture, and the history and biography of the places we use for our works. Researching the past of the urban locations and adding new contexts and concepts to them using different mediums. Mostly working in abandoned spaces, with our projects we try to find new