| Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back. Leisure&Research. Tbilisi, 22-25th, July, 2010. Ruins of Our Time project: ruinsofourtimes.wordpress.com By the Other Space Foundation, Laura Palmer Foundation, and GeoAIR Financed by City of Warsaw, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland and Culture Programme of the European Union. Main Partner: Bank of Georgia Alena Boika Progressive Nostalgia: between glamour and lace curtains On the ruins of any empire, something new is always springing up; it is inevitable. The USSR was the powerful empire, and its collapse brought forth an appearance of the different forms of a chaos, organized with a different level of order and the absurd. Belarus is a unique country, where the ruins of an empire gave birth to attempts to create a new one, but in the frames of one, not so big, but extremely closed country. The Empire, where ideology and history are created from the timid remains of the former and, the decisive asseverations of new principals and slogans. The words sound proud and stately, but visuality is falling apart, notable to endure the disharmony of fake constructions. Video by: Levan Maisuradze |
