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Artist: Luka Gotsiridze

Advising: Tania El Khoury

Audience Capacity: 12 at a time

Location: Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown, New York

Research Assistance: Enver Kezheradze, V Lawson

Production Assistance: Jina Rishmawi, Adrienne Truscott & CHRAMAs

Photography: Grace Crummett, Arina Pshenichnaya, Mauro Tosarelli

Developed at and Supported by the Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College.

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ვითომ-ვითომ [Vitom-Vitom] is an interactive performance exploring personal accounts of resistance to the normative gender roles that are ingrained in and performed as part of the Georgian national identity.

The audience is invited to a traditional Supra table, disrupted by imaginative childhood play. Through paper-cut characters, food, and polyphonic singing, the artist reclaims his childhood position at the table while examining the notions of cultural belonging and queer spacemaking.

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