AMO/OMA COUNTRYSIDE: A PLACE TO LIVE, NOT TO LEAVE, 2025
research assistance and text ‘A Brief Contextualisation of Sericulture in Georgia’ for installation Knowledge, People, Material: Architecture of Sericulture. 

“Ports, pipelines, highways, and data cables now thread through the Caucasus. Once again, the region is cast not as a center of cultural production, but as a corridor, an in-between space whose value lies in being crossed, connected, and controlled.

To study silk is not an act of nostalgia, it is a refusal to let this craft’s disappearance go unexamined.”













‘MUCILAGE STARTS TO SPREAD INTO THE BLACK SEA, OR PETROCHEMICAL STICKY FUTURES’ TEXT FOR “WATERED: THE TOPOGRAPHY OF OPAQUE CURRENTS” , 2025

This bilingual edition brings together the reading and thinking processes unfolded across several gatherings, reflecting on water, watery and waterless spaces, bodies, objects, and systems.
Concept author, lead and editor: Elisabed Gedevanishvili
Editor: Lika Gulbani
Authors: Urchi 0431, Elene Duduchava, Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Mariam Kakhniashvili, Tinatin Lobzhanidze, Mariam Songhulashvili, Ana Mikadze
Graphic design: Mariam Songhulashvili
The publication was printed at @xaraxura.press
Year of publication: 2025
The publication was prepared by the Tbilisi Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

















PROJECTS


My grandmother used to tell me that in the previous century, German (through her words) ‘technologists’ came to the village. 

DINEBA - A DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF GEORGIA’S ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE: INFRASTRUCTURE OF POWER PLANTS AND COMMUNITY RESISTANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, 2025

The aim of the initiative is to create a community-driven archive that enables contextual, participatory, and polyphonic participation in ways that represent the many voices, communities, and creative practices that have shaped Georgia’s ecological realities over time. With contributions from: Nina Akhvlediani, Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Lika Gulbani, Cent Hosten, Ana Mikadze, Tatuli Japoshvili & Giga Tsikarishvili (platform wit[h]nessing), Eka Tsotsoria
Curator: Nina Akhvlediani
Exhibition design: Julie Dalsgaard Hvass
Graphic design: Archil Tsereteli
Text: Lika Gulbani, Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Ana Mikadze
Website design: Cent Holsten








They asked for consent to mine kaolin from a hill, which the Kavtiskhevi locals call Kataula.

According to the German technologists, the material extracted from the mountain would make valuable porcelain.

SATELLITE IMAGE, KATAULA
My grandmother resisted and sent them away. Years have passed by, and a thin layer of white dust swathes the village, a cement grime from the nearby cement factory. 

The residents claim that the cancer rates have significantly risen since.

TRIPLE SPINE RELIEF DESIGN CARE BODY, 2023 

‘‘Two Georgian content moderators can be heard having a conversation in which neglected basic working conditions at their workplace take central stage. They work at a secondary outsourcing company, where NDAs prohibit them from dis-closing any information about their work and conveniently make any form of protesting or unionizing impossible.’’

THE ENERGY ATLAS, STUDIO OFFSHORE / STUDIO TECHNOGEOGRAPHIES 

Research publication on energy infrastuctures. Exhibited at Solar Labs, Sun Without Shadow Symposium, The Energy Show at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

ENERGY AS A TOOL OF HYBRID WARFARE, 2022

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Installation view, Cube in Context, 2022

Project highlights the colonial legacies of technocratic experimentation in South Caucasus. The immersive time-based installation unites an API software and a research publication.

Located in south Caucasus and only populated with 3,8 million, Georgia became the second largest cryptocurrency mining country in a short time span. Grey areas in laws and cheap electricity have attracted more foreign investors to take ownership of the energy generated by Georgian hydropower plants. Consequently, Georgia has been buying most of its electricity from long-time invader Russia.

While cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have been falsely advertised to financially help ‘forgotten’ nations (as stated in report “Bitcoin for Governments”) , it has only tricked people into committing to short-term small scale oligarchy and giving away natural resources and land to the neo-colonial expansion.

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EPHEMERA, 
2022

Collaboration with Marie Judith Le Gars

TEMPLE OF THE SUN, 2023 00:07:03:00, Video Still, Censored at CAS Batumi

 © Ana Mikadze 2026