Taxonomies of Power: A Conversation on the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi

Tue Jun 04 2024 | 10:00AM – 12:00PM | Tue Jun 04 2024

Event Description:

In 2022, artist Olaf Nicolai was invited to investigate the archives of the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, when he came across a rare collection of microscopic glass plate negatives. With the help of curator Nina Akhvlediani, DINEBA, Goethe Institut and the British Library, the plates were digitized and transformed into the magazine Seri. In early 2024, the images were printed for the first time and presented at Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College (CUNY) by the co-curators Alaina Claire Feldman and Mariam Shergelashvili, re-contextualized within an academic setting and with a new film by Georgian artist Andro Eradze. This talk brings together Nicolai, Akhvlediani, Feldman and Shergelashvili to discuss the evocative draw of the photographs, their legacy today, and their tentative future. This event will be recorded and is in collaboration with Goethe-Institut New York. **ONLINE ONLY** RSVP: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrduqpqjopGNOFGZeH8CDYpoSzAuRwoODt#/registration