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my work will still be up until 7pm at AAA festival 🙂‍↕️ Design Investigations EG, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2 Kataula is a research-driven artistic project set in the limestone quarries of Kavtiskhevi, a village in Georgia profoundly shaped by the relentless extraction of its natural resources. At the heart of the work is a confrontation with Georgian legislation, which sanctions mining until total resource depletion, cementing a future of inevitable destruction. These extractive practices, rooted in neocolonial legacies of German industrial intervention in the region, strip the mountain of its organic essence, turning sedimentary rock into displaced fragments of its own ecosystem. The project operates at the intersection of witnessing and intervention. Cement and quarry waste, the materials of industrial erasure, are reclaimed and reimagined.

Recent text-based features and mentions archive - Errant Journal latest issue #9 Companions “Invisible Threads: Women, Carceral Labor and Imperial Sericulture in the Caucasus”;Designing Questions by Anab Jain, Nikolas Heep and Stefan Zinell featuring two of my projects; გაწყალებული: the topography of opaque currents authored by Elisabed Gedevanishvili and edited by Lika Gulbani; არქივი არ იქნება @sajaro_reestri ; ბიანკა + Keto Gorgadze’s must-read article “Dreams of independence: Georgia beyond Russian and European Imperialisms”in the Funambulist no-state solution issue. Heartfelt thanks to all of you for trusting me and looking forward to more collabs in the future

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Contents Page 2/2. A preview of what's to come in Errant Journal Issue no. 9: Companions before we launch pre-orders this week. Contributors: Adriana Arroyo (@adrianaarroyo__ ), Keto Gorgadze (@ketogorgadze ), Andreas Kalkun, Lee Kai Chung (@ancient___soul ), Samira Makki (@cessez_faire_capitalism ), Ana Mikadze (@najgapni ), Petrică Mogoș (@petricamo ), Fabienne Rachmadiev (@fabidanslemetro ), Vaim Sarv (@vaim_sarv ), Victoria Soyan Peemot (@aranchula.horses ), Czyka Tumaliuan (@freestylemommy ), Iryna Zamuruieva (@iryna_zamuruieva ) This issue is a concept by and co-edited with Katia Krupennikova (@k_kru_ ) Thank you to @afk020 for funding and @framerframed for support for this issue.

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more that went to new owners

slowly starting to post ceramics from last months, all of them gone to new owners

Last Saturday we had the Finissage of the exhibition project ”Accumulation(s)“ by Ana Mikadze @najgapni which we realized in collaboration with our dears @questionmeandanswer 💞 This was the last project that we started last year. We are looking forward to many more such beautiful projects in 2026 🔮 Sadly, due to sickness, Ana wasn’t able to do their lecture as planned. We will re-schedule it for sometime in the next months, so stay tuned 👀 The exhibition project ”Accumulation(s)“ was a collaboration with @questionmeandanswer — it was curated by @azapatat and counted with the support of @cabriohofrat 💖 The project was made possible through the support of Stadt Wien Kultur @stadtwien

On Saturday 17 January, Ana Mikadze (@najgapni ) will deliver the lecture 'Invisible Threads' at the finissage of the exhibition 'Accumulation(s) / Anhäufung(en)' hosted by @kuntsverein in collaboration with @questionmeandanswer . Ana Mikadze is a contributor in the forthcoming issue no.9 of Errant Journal and presented 'Invisible Threads' last year at Errant's public research session 'Unlearning with Companions' at de Appel in Amsterdam. This is another opportunity to hear about Ana Mikadze's research and we are happy to invite the Errant community in Vienna to attend. Saturday 17 January Finissage 4-9pm Lecture 6pm 8BR1, Weiglgasse 8/B1/R1 - 1150 Vienna Invisible Threads: In the 1820s, the Russian Empire imagined the South Caucasus as a source of raw materials and labour for the imperial core. Modelled after the cultivation of cotton in the American south, regional agencies promoted silk cultivation, transforming domestic practices into a punitive, extractive labour. Indigenous sericulture was industrialized and incorporated into an imperial apparatus, where silkworms, Indigenous women and women prisoners were controlled, monitored, and exploited in order to compete in European markets. Based on archival research at the Georgian National Archives in Tbilisi, this research aims to creatively trace the process of reanimating the histories of Indigenous and incarcerated women and silkworms subjected to carceral imperial labour, aiming to remember, solidarise, and form unexpected companionships across time and geographies. Just as companionship and solidarity requires co-presence and persistence, archival work demanded collaboration with the materials themselves listening to what they revealed, what they withheld, and what survived despite systematic erasure. Ana Mikadze is a Vienna-based Georgian designer, artist, and art researcher of Armenian descent whose practice mainly addresses material and infrastructural legacies of imperialism in the Caucasus, as well as extractivism, labor, and borderization processes through historical and geopolitical lenses. Their work spans installations, research, and material inquiry.

We are pleased to share documentation from the launch of our project Dineba - A Digital Archive of Georgia’s Ecological Landscape (archive.dineba.ge) We would like to thank the research participants for contributing to the digital archive and for sharing their ongoing research, alongside an exhibition of archival materials and screenings of documentary films. The aim of the initiative is to create a community-driven archive that enables contextual, participatory, and polyphonic participation in ways that represent the many voices, communities, and creative practices that have shaped Georgia’s ecological realities over time. Contributions: Risk formation and natural event aggravated by climate change – Elisabed Gedevanishvili Infrastructure of power plants and community resistance in the context of large-scale development projects – Ana Mikadze ‘Affective geologies’: an archive of Chiatura’s wounds—material and mental traces of ecological change and industrial logic – Tatuli Japoshvili & Giga Tsikarishvili (platform wit[h]nessing) Access to rivers and social rights: the relationships between rivers and local populations, and collective access to and protection of ecological landscapes – Eka Tsotsoria Curator: Nina Akhvlediani Exhibition design: Julie Dalsgaard Hvass Graphic design: Archil Tsereteli Text: Lika Gulbani, Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Ana Mikadze Website design: Cent Holsten Thank you @designinstitute_ for hosting us! Ph: @grigorysokolinsky @dineba_archive @designinstitute_ @elisabwth @nina_akhvlediani @moreinvisible @giga_tsikarishvili @withnessing @ekanekko @tsintsatsintsa prostheticwings @arxhul @najgapni

We are pleased to share documentation from the launch of our project Dineba - A Digital Archive of Georgia’s Ecological Landscape (archive.dineba.ge) We would like to thank the research participants for contributing to the digital archive and for sharing their ongoing research, alongside an exhibition of archival materials and screenings of documentary films. The aim of the initiative is to create a community-driven archive that enables contextual, participatory, and polyphonic participation in ways that represent the many voices, communities, and creative practices that have shaped Georgia’s ecological realities over time. Contributions: Risk formation and natural event aggravated by climate change – Elisabed Gedevanishvili Infrastructure of power plants and community resistance in the context of large-scale development projects – Ana Mikadze ‘Affective geologies’: an archive of Chiatura’s wounds—material and mental traces of ecological change and industrial logic – Tatuli Japoshvili & Giga Tsikarishvili (platform wit[h]nessing) Access to rivers and social rights: the relationships between rivers and local populations, and collective access to and protection of ecological landscapes – Eka Tsotsoria Curator: Nina Akhvlediani Exhibition design: Julie Dalsgaard Hvass Graphic design: Archil Tsereteli Text: Lika Gulbani, Elisabed Gedevanishvili, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Ana Mikadze Website design: Cent Holsten Thank you @designinstitute_ for hosting us! Ph: @grigorysokolinsky @dineba_archive @designinstitute_ @elisabwth @nina_akhvlediani @moreinvisible @giga_tsikarishvili @withnessing @ekanekko @tsintsatsintsa prostheticwings @arxhul @najgapni