Lado Darakhvelidze

1.		Ideal Media
		2009.
		Mixed Media installation / Chalk murals / video
		700 cm X 500 cm
	The Installation Ideal Media was shown in the 11th Istanbul Biennale and documents my research into     media coverage of two events that started around the same time in August 2008: the Olympic games in Beijing, and the Georgian-Russian war. By monitoring these subjects through different media for a year and creating an archive, I aim to reveal the constant presence of war and the impossibility of demarcating its exact temporal boundaries in contemporary society.
2.		Ideal Media
		2009
		Mixed Media installation / Chalk murals / video
		700 cm X 500 cm
	See slide 1 for description
3.		Ideal Media
		2009
		Chalk murals
		80 cm X 50 cm
	See slide 1 for description

4.			Ideal Media
			2009
			Printed matter poster
			70 cm x 100 cm
	The poster composed of selected article clippings from newspapers. It served as background information’s and showing subjects connected with the Olympic games in Beijing and the Georgian-Russian war. The articles were translated in English and Turkish functioning almost as subtitles to a conflict.
5.			New State Symbols / Rubik’s Cube
			2008
			Acryl Wood
			90 cm x 90 cm
	In my long-term project New State Symbols and recent public sculptures such as New State Symbols / Rubik’s Cube (2008), I invited people to contribute their ideas, and challenged their lack of engagement with political and cultural affairs and infrastructures. I carefully consider symbolic associations as well as appropriate means of dissemination to a wider audience, trying to bring wit into the discours.
6.			New state symbols / Abkhazian flags
			2007
			Murals
			dimensions: (in cm): Varies
	The flag of the Georgian autonomous region Abkhazia has a cruel medieval and modern background. People from the mountains used to collect hands of the enemy and put them on their walls, as a trophy. The image of the Abkhazian flag is very painful for Georgian society, it reminds us of the thousands deaths and refugees after the war 14 years ago, the flag is taboo ever since. The flags which I painted in the streets of Tbilisi surprisingly stayed untouched for a long time, but eventually were covered with Georgian flags.
7.		Gallery TV
		2008
		performance
		dimensions: (in cm): –
	‘Gallery TV’ was a performance about early Dada activism in Georgia. And showing the importance to use these DADA strategies nowadays towards contemporary Nationalism. The TV Gallery performance included critic of nationalistic video’s on YouTube, which are full of fascistic gestures and symbolism. One of the monumental nationalistic symbols, The Arm, was cut with a gigantic scissors.
8.			Museum TV Station
			2009
			Acryl and pencil on paper
			49 cm x 70 cm
	In Museum TV Station I interpret the role of an artist as an ideal media maker, referring to museums where one can see works about political and social conflicts. Museums already are a place for receiving news and background information. In the contemporary Art Museum Tv Stations it’s possible to see artistic research of hidden politics and current media topics. These two drawings were made in assignment of Metropolis M, the Urgent issue
9.			Museum TV Station
			2010
			Acryl on Canvas
			130 cm X 250 cm
	See slide 8 for description
10.			New state symbols / Star
			2009
			Acryl on canvas
			Star1 170 cm x 130 cm Star2 130 cm x 150 cm
	Series of 3 painting as part ‘New State Symbols’ ongoing visual research into nationalistic semantics.