"Before and After Silence"
Public Program

Participants: İlknur Demirkoparan, Vuslat D. Katsanis, MPAC, Georgii Elaev, Tati Khutsishvili, Yamadatesla, Xosilita, Bill Zima, intc, Mike_Went
Curator: intc

The exhibition is a result of a month-long research residency that took place on-site at the Porakishvili Ethnographic House Museum and on-line for international participants throughout August, 2025. Artists and researchers from different countries worked together in an open, experimental environment, where processes were discussed collectively and works became responses to and echoes of one another. The exhibition addresses the notion of the “postcollapse” — a state in which we live amid systemic failures, sensing the inevitability of breakdowns and, at the same time, the possibility of rethinking the future.

The works on view — painting, video, sound, performance, interactive and digital installations — explore the boundaries between personal memory and collective experience, between reality and its digital projections, between disappearance and the potential for renewal. From the Postcollapse Manifesto and the documentation of everyday traces to reflections on extinct species and attempts to read the cracks in the foundations before they fall, the participating artists approach collapse not as an ending, but as a condition for new forms of life and interaction