Khinkali Juice

Nadia Tsulukidze & Sophia Tabatadze

2006, Tbilisi

After the Rose Revolution in 2003, the national anthem of Georgia became as popular as John Lennon's hymn to peace, "Imagine" – children were taught it at school, it could be heard in public parks and it was performed live at weddings. As there was no funding for contemporary art, Nadia Tsulukidze and Sophia Tabatadze formed the performance group Khinkali Juice and took their first shot at being entrepreneurs themselves by producing this video of the Georgian National Anthem.

see links:   https://www.goethe.de/ins/ru/en/kul/arc/k19/gre/kue/20997085.html

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Khinkali Juice

Nadia Tsulukidze & Sophia Tabatadze

2007, Tbilisi

‘Do you want to know where the Georgian man reveals himself in his entire splendor?
This is the Georgian Table! If you are invited to one of those parties try not to miss one as it is supposed to be a real performance put up by the toast-master, or the Tamada. Tamada acts like a director of the party announcing traditional toasts to peace, health, happiness, well-being, beautiful women, love, etc. etc. High-flown and magic words seem to help him to establish contact with Heaven….’

more info:  https://khinkalijuice.blogspot.com/

2007, Tbilisi

In 2005 I’ve got a permission to film in metro of Tbilisi. By this time there were no advertisements on the walls and no video screens with Georgian folk dance, as propaganda for Georgian army.
I wanted to capture this transition moment for my memories. Mertro, as a small city under the ground, with destroyed soviet monumental architecture, people with sad faces, all in black. I was touched by the idea, that there was a time when people believed, that they were building a ‘glories future for their children’, but their ‘lovers’, like in old tango songs, cheated on them. Irony. Nostalgia. Unreachable, vanishing love.

Tbilisi Metro was finished in 1966 and was the 4th Metro in the Soviet Union. It is a monument of soviet Industrialisation and ‘the Future of Communism’, that has never arrived. Tango-Metro is a nostalgic reference to Diga Vertov’s ‘ Man with the Movie Camera ‘ ( 1929 ) and represents a female view of the post-soviet version of Communism.

Tango-Metro was presented within a Short film program at Brotfabrik Kino Berlin in 2012. http://eepap.culture.pl/node/35616

BERLIN CLUB
2005, Tbilisi
Video: Ana Riaboshenko
Music: Dima Dadiani & Dato Margiani

Dance & editing: Nadia Tsulukidze

Physical body has a sex. If you are a woman then you are not a man. If something is white, it is not black. If this is moral, then the opposite is amoral…This dualistic way of thinking dictates our body binary rules without leaving any space for a third possibility.

Rediscovering Georgia I observed that people’s behaviour was divided in two categories: if you are a women, you have to behave like ...as a man you have to do..., I was wondering about part in my body which has no sex and I felt that there was no place in society for this part of me, simply a human and not a female or male... This part was bound and constrained could not express itself.