Mariam Songhulashvili
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Mariam Songhulashvili is a visual artist based in Tbilisi, Georgia, working primarily with generative and interactive time-based media. Their practice is modular, open-ended, and experimental, rooted in system-building and situated at the intersection of diverse disciplines. Exploring themes of memory, urban and liminal spaces, and the gamification of reality, Mariam frequently collaborates with sound artists, writers, and sculptors. They have participated in numerous audiovisual festivals and group exhibitions, presenting live performances that incorporate multi-channel video, site-specific projection mapping, live camera improvisation, and interactive installations.
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SELECTED WORK
In-between 2.0
SoundS at the UdK Rundgang, Berlin, Germany
In-between is an audio-visual collaborative work by Mariam Songhulashvili and Anaparn Pinpradub. The work is combining projected imagery and spatial
sound. The work explores the unstable space between perception and belief.
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Techno Queen
Brainlab, Munich, Germany (production of Bayerische Staatsoper)
An electro(melo)drama featuring excerpts from operas by Gaetano Donizetti and techno music.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England: a legendary figure. An entire era is
named after her. The virgin queen, daughter of Henry VIII and his wife
Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth, the Protestant, eternal rival of the Catholic
Mary Stuart. In Techno Queen, the legendary queens come to life anew—and
invite you to dance in the afterlife between Donizetti and techno. Bel
canto meets beats—an electro(melo)drama.
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Strangler strings
Wings of Desire, Bassiani, Tbilisi, Georgia
(in collaboration with Anna Khmaladze)
Strangler stringsis the second collaborative project by Anna Khmaladze and Mariam Songhulashvili.
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Mysterious Package (AV Live)
Sateliti at Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, Georgia (in collaboration with Anaparn Pinpradub)
Sequel to ‘Memory’
Inspired by the work of women directors from the 1980s and 1990s who
explored memory and the past through experimental film, this project
utilizes a live video feed directed at a carefully assembled memory box.
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In-between
Goethe Institute of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia. (in collaboration with Anaparn Pinpradub)
In-between is an audio-visual collaborative work by Mariam
Songhulashvili and Anaparn Pinpradub. The work is combining projected
imagery, suspended resonant panels, and spatial
sound. The panels function as both projection surfaces and vibrating
sound bodies, activated by exciters. Audience members step into a
defined space where their shadows merge with digitally generated forms,
blurring the boundary between physical presence and mediated image.
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maliamtvralia (1.0) (2.0) (AV Live)
Digital avatar gabiskiriamalia gets heartbroken and drunk.
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Dawn
Art House Gori, Gori, Georgia (in collaboration with Anna Khmaladze)
Dawn is the first collaborative project by Anna Khmaladze and
Mariam Songhulashvili. The 180° rotation of the figure depicted on the
felt bas-relief reflects its bodily transformation. The figure, shown in
three different positions, transforms along with the change of
perspective - the knowledge that exists beyond the body becomes
embodied, envelops it - evolving into bodily extension.
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Meeting Mariah (AV Live)
TES Club, Tbilisi, Georgia (in collaboration with gabiskiriamalia)
New Year’s Special. Digital avatar gabiskiriamalia tries to steal
christmas, but in the process falls in love with Mariah Carey.
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Cactus: Experimental Opera
Haraki, Tbilisi, Georgia
What happens when a modern person, who falls out of objective, socially
systematized time, becomes trapped in their own subjective time?
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Current / მიმდინარე (AV Live)
Haraki, Tbilisi, Georgia
‘Current’ is an experimental audiovisual series by gabiskiriamalia and Mariam Songhulashvili.
gabiskiriamalia is a digital avatar that transforms urban space into a
two-dimensional playfield, where street sounds turn into synthetic ones.
The visual narrative of “Current” is based on “found footage”. This
audio-visual combination tries to render reality non-normative.
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Memory (AV Live)
Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, Georgia
Inspired by the work of women directors from the 1980s and 1990s who
explored memory and the past through experimental film, this project
utilizes a live video feed directed at a carefully assembled memory box.
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Urban Hymn (AV Live)
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The project explores sound as a tool of power in the urban space.
Traffic, constant movement, and road noise create a sonic backdrop of everyday life.
These sounds speak of urban tension, overloaded systems/roads, and overwhelmed minds.
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Co-Occurence (AV Live)
Goethe Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia
Separating and coming together. The rhythms of rays. Abstract piece created with the use of bare white light in mind.
On or Off. Dissonant or in harmony.
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??? (AV Live)
Art House Gori, Gori, Georgia
Since... liminal time is not controlled by the clock, it is a time.. when anything might, even should, happen.’ (v.turner)
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Tkivili 1.0
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Audio-Visual representation for a text written by @prostheticwings, conserning the chronicity of pain:
‘Constantly arriving with new strength, new form, new frequency, it leaves new scratches [or] cracks on your mind.
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2064 / Blur (AV Live)
Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, Georgia
Featuring original music and AI-assisted collaborative vocals and
lyrics, this work captures nostalgia and self-irony within the
technological possibilities of the future. ‘we write the story of our
future from narratives based on the past...Mindful awareness can bring
into consciousness those hidden, past-based perspectives so that they no
longer frame our worldview’. The visual texture of the piece relies on
archival photographic imagery, manipulation of the real-world 3D scans,
and animating the digital avatar of Gabiskiriamalia.
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Have a safe way home. Tread carefully
xaraxura, Tbilisi, Georgia
‘It’s been confirmed that the world has no edge, where do we go from here?’
‘Have a Safe Way Home. Tread Carefully’ is a one-hour meditative piece,
heavily based on a text that explores the emotions of being on the road.
The work tries to poetically capture the process of returning ‘home.’
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Dots and Lines (AV Live)
Art House Gori, Gori, Georgia
‘Dots and Lines’ is a collaborative work of two independent artists,
Nino Davadze and Mariam Songhulashvili, which observes the audio-visual
characteristics of the city. The piece is a synthesis of visual images
of the city and field recordings, where both artists process the
material with a random principle.
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გაზაფხული / gazapkhuli
Holoseum, Tbilisi, Georgia
For the past years, every spring, Tbilisi loses its shape and rhythm
as familiar landmarks take on new meanings. This six-minute
audio-reactive video installation uses geodata from eight locations tied
to protests, transforming the city’s physical structure into reactive
point clouds, that respond dynamically to Nino Davadze’s musical
composition, capturing Tbilisi’s diverse and chaotic character as a city
that feels both fragmented and central.
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