Influence Effect Residency
Hybrid residency for Belarusian & Georgian
artists and researchers
October 15 – November 5, 2025 · Tbilisi & Garikula, Georgia
artists and researchers
October 15 – November 5, 2025 · Tbilisi & Garikula, Georgia
Influence Effect Residency
Hybrid residency for Belarusian & Georgian artists and researchers
October 15 – November 5, 2025 · Tbilisi & Garikula, Georgia
We live in a moment of rapid ecological and cultural transformation. Humans and non-humans alike adapt to shifting techno-natural realities, while the ethics of coexistence continue to evolve.
Influence Effect created a space for artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners from Georgia and Belarus to explore these transitions together. Over twenty days, the participants investigated biocentric connections and experimented with artistic practices that imagine alternative futures — grounded in care, responsibility, and curiosity.
Influence Effect created a space for artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners from Georgia and Belarus to explore these transitions together. Over twenty days, the participants investigated biocentric connections and experimented with artistic practices that imagine alternative futures — grounded in care, responsibility, and curiosity.
We live in a moment of rapid ecological and cultural transformation. Humans and non-humans alike adapt to shifting techno-natural realities, while the ethics of coexistence continue to evolve.
Influence Effect created a space for artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners from Georgia and Belarus to explore these transitions together. Over twenty days, the participants investigated biocentric connections and experimented with artistic practices that imagine alternative futures — grounded in care, responsibility, and curiosity.
Influence Effect created a space for artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners from Georgia and Belarus to explore these transitions together. Over twenty days, the participants investigated biocentric connections and experimented with artistic practices that imagine alternative futures — grounded in care, responsibility, and curiosity.
| The residency brought together diverse perspectives and encouraged hybrid modes of interaction between art and the ecological, sociocultural, and historical contexts of Georgia. Through collective learning and individual projects, the group reflected on how different life forms and environments remain plural, entangled, and resistant to simplification. Participants became creative nomads — biocentric agents navigating the relationships between urban and natural landscapes, technologies and biocenoses, cosmologies and myths, digital and indigenous knowledge. Art here was not a means of domination, but of coexistence, not influence, but attentive interaction. |
| The residency brought together diverse perspectives and encouraged hybrid modes of interaction between art and the ecological, sociocultural, and historical contexts of Georgia. Through collective learning and individual projects, the group reflected on how different life forms and environments remain plural, entangled, and resistant to simplification. Participants became creative nomads — biocentric agents navigating the relationships between urban and natural landscapes, technologies and biocenoses, cosmologies and myths, digital and indigenous knowledge. Art here was not a means of domination, but of coexistence, not influence, but attentive interaction. |
Residency Journey
Stage 1 — Tbilisi
Immersion into the local context: visits to the Dighomi Meadow Ecological Park and the city of Rustavi; meetings with artists, environmental activists, and community representatives.
Stage 2 — Garikula Art Village
Time for research and making. In dialogue with the local art community, residents developed their projects and began forming artistic statements.
Stage 3 — Tbilisi Exhibition
A public presentation of artistic research and new works created during the residency.
Stage 1 — Tbilisi
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Stage 2 — Garikula Art Village
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Influence Effect
Principles we practiced
• Collaboration with local communities
• Zero-impact and conscious interaction with the environment
• Respect for landscape integrity and local histories
• Sustainable making processes
• Working thoughtfully with natural materials, ready-mades, and found objects
• Care for human and more-than-human worlds
Curated by artist and researcher Bazinato and the Art Yard Community team.
• Zero-impact and conscious interaction with the environment
• Respect for landscape integrity and local histories
• Sustainable making processes
• Working thoughtfully with natural materials, ready-mades, and found objects
• Care for human and more-than-human worlds
Curated by artist and researcher Bazinato and the Art Yard Community team.
| Stage 3 — Influence Effect Exhibition October 31 – November 5, 2025 National Trust of Georgia, Tbilisi The final exhibition brought together the outcomes of the residency — a constellation of hybrid artistic explorations shaped by the conversations, journeys, and encounters of the previous weeks. These works form a map of relations, where voices of land, communities, species, technologies, and stories coexist. They propose a biocultural future built on care — a counterpoint to extraction, fragmentation, and hierarchy. Each project is an attempt to listen more closely to the world and to locate our shared place within it. The artists act as guides and researchers of complex ecologies, illuminating how influence becomes mutual and how imagination becomes a tool for resilience. |
You can see the 3D tour of the exhibition below.
Participants
• Vrsn • Ania Sachyuka • Bazinato • Beka Buchashvili • Lel
• Tamar Botchorishvili • Hanna Seliazniova • Dimitry Nakashidze • Nino Chechelashvili • Naili Vakhania • TUR • Tata • Tatsiana Karpachova
• Tamar Botchorishvili • Hanna Seliazniova • Dimitry Nakashidze • Nino Chechelashvili • Naili Vakhania • TUR • Tata • Tatsiana Karpachova
