Presentations, lectures, and other spoken words
I’ve given talks and lectures at venues and events internationally, as well as moderated and participated in panels and public discussions between artists, curators, and researchers. Additionally, I’ve taught BA and MA courses and conducted workshops, seminars, or presentations for various educational institutions and art programs.
Moderator of Q&A with director Giorgi Kvelidze following the US premiere of documentary NATELA about a famous Georgian photographer Natela Grigalashvili
Guest speaker at the “Networking and Sustaining Community” panel for 2026 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program of NYFA, New York, NY
Participant of the ArtsLink Assembly 2025: Defending Each Other, curated and produced by CEC ArtsLink and Artistic Freedom Initiative (NYC) in partnership with Artists at Risk Connection and On the Move (Belgium/France), La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
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Moderator of Departures – Book launch and artist talk by photographers Agostina Cerullo & Thomas Moore, Brooklyn, NY
Panel discussion participant and presenter at TransCultural Exchange’s 2025 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Avenues for Daring
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Presentation about Residency Unlimited featured on TransCultural Exchange TV – TCE TV, Season 3, Episode 6, Artist-in-Residency Programs, Part 2.
A discussion with Anna Chistoserdova, Eva Khachatryan, and Tatiana Kochubinska, organized by Residency Unlimited (RU) and Flux Factory
Moderated by Data Chigholashvili, Curator of Residency Unlimited
March 4, 2025
Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY
The keynote speakers present their work on various forms of exchanges in arts and culture. Concentrating on the Eastern European and post-Soviet contexts, they discuss their experiences with different predicaments and approaches when organizing international collaborations and residencies. Anna Chistoserdova shares her experience of work in exile by focusing on the examples of organizing residencies for Belarusian artists and cultural workers, and continuing international artistic cooperation in the context of Eastern Europe. Eva Khachatryan discusses her curatorial work in relation to informal and organized forms of artistic exchanges in Armenia, and the financial difficulties related to it, as well as talks about the importance of collective practices and horizontal structures. Tatiana Kochubinska discusses how the war in Ukraine has simultaneously increased visibility and restricted mobility in arts, and talks about her work on continuing international partnerships. The panel discussion explores the importance of establishing bonds and networks throughout the years of working internationally, which turned out to be essential in continuing artistic and cultural exchanges despite various conflicts and restraints that have characterized the region and the countries therein.
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December 3, 2024
Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY
A talk between RU resident artist Aida Sulova and Curator of Residency Unlimited, Data Chigholashvili. Collective memory, storytelling, identity, craft, and textiles – these are a few topics they have worked on individually in different post-Soviet contexts. In this conversation, they will focus on Aida Sulova’s artistic practice, discussing her work on collective and personal symbols.
Discussing Soviet propaganda that had entered the traditional craft of Kyrgyzstan in the 20th century, as well as the artist’s childhood memories, this talk will explore textiles as appropriated media for both indoctrination and emancipation. In the realm of socio-cultural changes, where memories intertwine and the traumatic ones linger like ghosts, the reconciliation process becomes like stitching in personal and collective fabrics.
From 2:00 PM that day, selected works by the artist will be on view together with Kyrgyz Tush Kiyz from the 1960s.
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A Conversation with Curator Data Chigholashvili in connection with the exhibition Taxonomies of Power: Photographic Encounters at the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, at The Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), NY
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Cocoons and Threads: Collections and Connections – copresenter, the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia; part of the online series Art Prospect Network Talks by CEC ArtsLink
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Textile and Politics – copresenter, online lecture for the University of the Underground
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Contemporary Artistic Interpretations of Textile Tradition – presentation at TextileTALKS, Contextile Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal
Dialogues on Transnational Curatorial Practice – speaker and participant as Art Prospect Fellow, The 8th Floor, New York, NY
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Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Social Engagement in Tbilisi – Artist and Society international conference, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Creative Urban Interventions in and about Tbilisi – seminar, Black Sea Link Fellowship Returning Fellow, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
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Visual Anthropology: Experiments Between Science and Art – public lecture at the Frontline Club Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Imagining Public [Space]: Socially Engaged Interventions and Transformation in Bucharest – Black Sea Link Fellowship seminar, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
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The Challenges of Post-Soviet Nationalism through Different Perspectives: On the Example of Urban Changes in Georgia – Drifting Identities, exhibition and colloquium, Chisinau, Moldova
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Contemporary Visual Narratives: Collaboration of Anthropology and Contemporary Visual Art in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research – The Open Society Foundations mid-year scholar conference – Education and Social Change and Justice, St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK
Between art and anthropology (coming up soon)
