a word a day to be wiped away | CCA
Le centre d’art contemporain de Tbilisi en Géorgie propose une exposition intéressante :
a word a day to be wiped away
April 10 - May 10, 2015
A word a day to be wiped away is the title of the latest project of the Zurich based artist group RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co). The video installation - curated by the artist Mariam Natroshvili - has been realised in the new location of the Center for Contemporary Art CCA Tbilisi.
A word a day to be wiped awayis an installation that includes two yellow paint lines on walls, wall writings with about 60 specific words to erase from the vocabulary, some yellow furniture for sitting, reading and working and an exchange-cage (3m high wire fencing) which contains a news-kebab, a collection of local newspapers, two videos (nose, 2003; a discussion with Nargiza Arjevanidze, researcher, lecturer at the Tbilisi state university, 2015), a blue plinth with a mirror and about 30 cleaning rags hanging from the ceiling. 11 different translations of the wealth manifestofrom English to Georgian are on display on one wall. The translations have been realised by art students of the CCA.
The words to erase from the vocabulary have been donated by different people from Tbilisi. Some of the words contain a double meaning or stand for a specific sense which are linked to all kind of different stories. During the exhibition they will be erased by visitors with the help of the cleaning rags. To get a rag out of the exchange-cage, visitors need to give a valuable object to deposit on the mirror-surface of the blue plinth.
