June - Style Magazine

132
stili #32. 2009
Silence Is Consent – Laboratory Chapter IX
On May 20 2009 Georgian National Museum –
Tbilisi History Museum presented exhibition project
“Silence Is Consent – Laboratory Chapter IX” by artist
Kote Jincharadze.
Organizer: Georgian National Museum – Tbilisi
History Museum
Supervisor: Nino Zaalishvili
Project “Silence Is Consent – Laboratory Chapter
IX” started in 1996 as a series of actions-performances
aiming at establishing two-way communication
between humans and fishes. During these 13 years
author of the project – Kote Jincharadze – had been
organizing such actions at the banks and shores of
rivers, lakes and seas in different countries all over the
world. Human-to-fish contact was first established in
St. Petersburg, when an interactive being – Kote
Jincharadze – arranged action titled “Silence is Consent”
in cooperation with inter-passive beings – fish inhabiting
Fontanka River.
The principle of communication applied by the artist
is as follows: from a pre-selected point on the shore
texts of documents, specially prepared for fishes, are
lowered into water (the documents are enclosed in hermetically
closed glass cases with attached micro-