Beyond the Walls
Beyond the Walls: New Forms of Communication. A group project by Sandro and his students of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts for Unbound Trajectories of the Future, the exhibition that opened on 1 July 2024 for the 30th anniversary of the Goethe-Institut Georgia: twelve group and individual projects by nineteen artists working in Georgia, imagining the institute’s next thirty years. Curator: Giorgi Spanderashvili.
The concept, developed by Sandro: what once happened in conference halls, public squares and auditoriums has moved into digital space, so the future Goethe-Institut may need not walls but a new language for dialogue. Each member of the group proposed one: Calligraphic Communication by Nika Inasaridze, Visionary Communication: the Universal Translator by Keti Natchkebia, Neural Nexus by Nini Sakvarelidze and The Liquid Language: Communicating through Touch by Natia Togonidze. Sandro’s own part, The Language of Visual Signs, starts from the icons through which we already talk to computers.
The book of the project, in English, Georgian, German and Italian, was published by Sandro’s Books.
