The Coping Times Series is a continuation of the artist’s performative practice as non-verbal research on human behaviour.

In the early stages of the project, performances ideas were developed based on the unconscious associations with different coping behaviours. A series of discussions were held later on with curators and a clinical psychiatrist specializing in behavioural studies. After finalizing the ideas and creating costumes for the performances, the final stage of the project was a series of live performances. 

Located in the heart of Kakheti Region (Republic of Georgia), the art residency is hidden on the territory of an old leisure resort, surrounded by fields. The audience for these acts was never purposely invited. The people in the resort became spectators by accident: hotel guests, staff, golf players, residents of the nearby villages, and motorists driving past.

The Boston Dynamics Series consists of short performances in various locations across the leisure resort and outside of it, along the highway. A confusingly modified body repeats simple, yet confusing acts: runs around the grass fields; throws itself down the hills; stands still; hangs from a tree. The simple way of changing the bodily image in order to achieve the liberating feeling of becoming unfamiliar is one of the artist’s core principals in performance.