Mariam Songhulashvili
Projects arranged in a Chronological Order
 esaa.mariamis@gmail.com      

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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In-between 2.0In-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. What happens when what we see and hear can no longer be fully trusted? By unsettling sensory certainty, In-Between invites viewers to reflect on how truth is constructed, negotiated, and constantly reshaped.



    This project was developed in collaboration Goethe-Institut Georgien and Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program at UDK Berlin.


    ©️ Goethe-Institut Georgien








    Techno Queen 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.

    Cast 

    Director: Francesco Micheli     
    Set and Costumes: Uta Bekaia    
    Music: Alberto Zanardi, Leona Jacewska     
    Video: Mariam Songhulashvili     
    Lighting: Thomas Wendt     
    Sound: Max-Lukas Hundelshausen     
    Choreographer: Sophie Haydee Colindres Zühlke     
    Dramaturge: Saskia Kruse, Olaf Roth      

    Queen Elizabeth: Yannick Fischer     
    Maria Stuarda: Iana Aivazian     
    Anna Bolena: Evgeniya Sotnikova     
    Elisabetta: Meg Brilleslyper     
    Enrico/La morte: Zhe Liu     
    Violine, Akkordeon: Daniela Huber     
    Kontrabass: Reinhard Schmid    
    Tänzerinnen: Sophie Haydee Colindres Zühlke, Afra Kleinert, Lea Markgraf, Michelle Sara Munoz 









    Attributions and Special Thanks 

    City & Topography Maps: Scenic video projections showing London and Munich utilize stylized geographical data from © OpenStreetMap contributors (osm.org/copyright). 

    Global earth textures are courtesy of NASA.

    3D Models: The heart model is adapted from 'Realistic Human Heart' by neshallads; the feather model from 'High Poly Stylized Feather' by Laurie Annis; the gem models from 'Diamond Gem Shape Set - 1 Collectibles' by brandon_grey; the tree model from 'The Queen Elizabeth oak' by kungphil; and the door model from 'Bath Abbey west door' by danielpett. All are sourced via Sketchfab and used under CC BY 4.0 with modifications made for stage synchronization.

    Scientific & Anatomical Assets: Molecular structures are adapted from entries 1A3N, 1BNA, and 1TNV (Drew, Dickerson, Tsukihara, Tame & Vallone) via the RCSB Protein Data Bank.

    Typography: Visual title elements utilize the 'Isenheim' typeface designed by Benoît Ferran via Tunera Type Foundry (SIL Open Font License). Secondary text and captions utilize the 'Roboto' typeface developed by Google (Apache License 2.0).

    Special Thanks

    Additional production tools and real-time network components provided courtesy of Lake Heckaman, SARV, MiniUV, PPPANIK, Elekktronaut, Jascha Seuss, Prismatic, and the TouchDesigner developer community.

    ©️ Photo: Geoffroy Schied


    Strangler strings
    (projected light, felt, recycled leather, modeling clay, recycled textile, metal)     Strangler strings is the second collaborative project by Anna Khmaladze and Mariam Songhulashvili. 

    For Wings of Desire; curated by Hitori Ni at Bassiani, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Mysterious Package  (AV Live)
    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.

    Memory is contextual; it exists only through the perspective of the moment of recollection. That is, we insert our present selves into what has happened, and thus memory transforms each time.

    Memory is condensed in objects.



    Audio: Anaparn Pinpradub
    Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili

    Performed at Sateliti














    In-betweenIn-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.

    Voices spoken through megaphones are captured, processed in real time, and fed back into the panels, causing them to resonate. The work explores the unstable space between perception and belief. What happens when what we see and hear can no longer be fully trusted? By unsettling sensory certainty, In-Between invites viewers to reflect on how truth is constructed, negotiated, and constantly reshaped.



      This project was developed in collaboration Goethe-Institut Georgien and Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program at UDK Berlin, with funding from Goethe-Institut Georgien.


      ©️ Goethe-Institut Georgien/ Photo: Giorgi Kolbaia / Video: Shio Khidasheli













      maliamtvralia (1.0) (2.0)  (AV Live) Digital avatar gabiskiriamalia gets heartbroken and drunk.

      Audio: gabiskiriamalia
      Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili


      1.0 Performed at Thelema; 2.0 Performed for Tsneva





      Dawn
      (Felt bas-relief [200x120cm]; Projected light)       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. The light and visual imagery projected onto the bas-relief give the static object a temporal dimension, becoming a kind of medium between the states of the figure and the viewer’s gaze.

      For Silk Armour; curated by __niangi__ (New Media and Experimental Art Platform) at Art House Gori 








      Meeting Mariah  (AV Live) New Year’s Special. Digital avatar gabiskiriamalia tries to steal christmas, but in the process falls in love with Mariah Carey. 

      Audio: gabiskiriamalia
      Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili

      Performed at TES Club










      Cactus: Experimental Opera What happens when a modern person, who falls out of objective, socially systematized time, becomes trapped in their own subjective time?

      “Cactus” is a story about systemic collapse and psychological crisis. The architect’s orderly world—where he is convinced that he controls time (“every second freezes when I press the elevator button”)—collapses within a minute. Panic, chaos, and a series of claustrophobic attacks begin. Opposing this inner chaos is the “cactus” — an object placed deep within the stage, radiating a clean, minimalist, and stable resonance.

      It is the collision of rational mind with organic reality — with a sense of time that lies beyond subjective and objective time. It is a story about transformation, which begins only after the total collapse of the modern individual.


      Characters and Performers:
      The Architect - Giorgi Goderdzishvili (Bass)
      Cactus -  Christopher Manning (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet)

        Composer: Tiko Ghoghoberidze
        Librettist: Mindia Arabuli
        Design / Video Projection: Mariam Songhulashvili
        Costume Designer: Uta Bekaia
        Director: Ilia Korkashvili
        Sound Director: Lasha Natenadze
        Lighting: Achi Arghanashvili

        ©️ Goethe-Institut Georgien/ Photo: Giorgi Kolbaia/ Video: Shio Khidasheli










        Current / მიმდინარე  (AV Live) “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.

        Audio: gabiskiriamalia
        Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili
        Hand-sewn recycled leather masks by Anna Khmaladze

        Performed at Haraki




        Memory    (AV Live) 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.

        Memory is contextual; it exists only through the perspective of the moment of recollection. That is, we insert our present selves into what has happened, and thus memory transforms each time.

        The act of remembering becomes a form of self-invention - a rebuilding of the self, anew, every time.

        Memory is condensed in objects.


        Audio: Zeskneli
        Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili

        Performed at Tkeshi Festival 2025














        Urban Hymn  (AV Live)
        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.

        Urban Hymn -  the main voice: Tbilisi’s traffic.
        Background sounds - songs about Tbilisi.
        gabiskiriamalias original tracks.
        A sound that is heard when these sounds are not.

        The visual component of the work combines data that describes the urban space and is publicly available online - essentially, the city’s digital footprint. This includes meteorological, cartographic, satellite, and statistical materials. Such numerical representation of urban space, at first glance, seem entirely detached from the experience of physically being in that space. In order to describe the complex system of the city, to perceive and understand it as a whole, it becomes necessary to identify patterns hidden within the data.

        While the sonic element is directly based on the sense of presence in urban space, the visual element enters into a dialogue with it, introducing a digital body - an avatar - into the city’s digital imprint.


        Audio: Gabiskiriamalia
        Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili









        Co-Occurence
         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.

        Created with the use of projection mapping on the building of the Goethe Institute of Georgia.


        Audio: Anushka Chkheidze
        Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili

        Created for the Goethe Institute of Georgia









        ???  (AV Live) ‘Since... liminal time is not controlled by the clock, it is a time.. when anything might, even should, happen.’  (v.turner)



        Audio: Gabiskiriamalia
        Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili

        Performed at ‘Borders & Exits’ at Art House Gori





        The river, the ambiguous time, and all the other namesSomewhere between a humorous broadcast and a poetic meditation, the project attempts to engage with the Mtkvari—to grasp its past, its image, the popular knowledge accumulated around it, its size and areas of coverage. In trying to better understand it, it becomes estranged from its familiar face, and at the same time more intimate with its unknowability.

        Dedicated to everyone who is lost in the current.

        • Text: Mariam Songhulashvili & Mariam Kakhniashvili
        • Audio: Found
        • Visuals: Mariam Songhulashvili