Mariam Songhulashvili
esaa.mariamis@gmail.com
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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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Urban Hymn (AV Live)
2025
Urban Hymn (AV Live)
2025
-, Tbilisi, Georgia
in collaboration with gabiskiriamalia
DESCRIPTION
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.