About the project
My Friend From Nowhereland by Georgi Gogatadze
My Friend From Nowhereland is a work in progress with a multimedia installation. It is based on the exchange of memories, media, and roles.
The correspondence between two online friends — from Budzhak (South of the Odessa region) and Balochistan (a historical region on the northern coast of the Indian Ocean) — evolves into a performative act of reconstructing time and space, synthesizing a common experience that forms a new dimension: Nowhereland.
The work explores the commonality of two parallel experiences: life on the periphery, the search for identity in a religious context, and isolation, where the Internet becomes the only channel of communication* for finding intimacy.
“My friend and I met online and saw a mirror in each other: different cultures, but common feelings — peripherality, alienation, the search for faith, and the internal conflict between homosexuality and religious teachings, an attempt to find acceptance of oneself online. Our landscapes echo like two ‘borderlands.’ We share photos, videos, audio, and diary entries. The fusion of our voices and memories creates Nowhereland — an imaginary shared space between two realities,” says Georgi Gogatadze.
About the author
Georgi Gogatadze is an artist and director originally from the Odessa region (Pavlivka village on the Budzhak peninsula), who works with the dramaturgy of life, subjective documentary, video essay, puppet theatre, and performance.
In his practice, he explores intimacy, memory, and nostalgia, as well as trauma and escapism, and the intertwining of personal and collective experiences. He is interested in the themes of the primitive and naive, as well as borderline states and liminal spaces. He is engaged in cultural management and research of Ukrainian Internet archives.
Georgi studied documentary film at the I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television (2020-2023). He is a part of the Intimate Cinema initiative, within which he curates the Festival of Intimate Animation and a series of screenings of informal videography REC:UA. Organizes film screenings, exhibitions, and workshops.
Presentations
- The presentation of the work in progress took place on 13 December 2025, at the Odesa National Fine Art Museum
Additional resources
- Release about the presentation of the work in progress at Odesa Journal
- Release about the presentation of the work in progress at Left Bank
Implementation team
Production proto produkciia
Executive producer Olga Diatel
Line producer Yuliia Parysh, Iryna Onishchuk
Assistant producer Viktoriia Zhembrovska
On-site assistance Valerii Korshunov (Odesa National Fine Art Museum)
Communication and media coordination Oleksii Havryliuk (proto produkciia), Maria Lityanska (Odessa
National Fine Art Museum)
Copywriter Maria Agisyan
Photo Ivan Strakhov
Poster design Yaroslava Kovalchuk
Video documentation Denys Bohdan, Daria Sokolova
Supported by
My Friend From Nowhereland work in progress was created with the support of the Antonin Artaud Fellowship within the second South edition 2025, which focused on independent artists from the South of Ukraine. That edition of the Fellowship was implemented by proto produkciia foundation in partnership with the Odessa National Fine Art Museum and the MY ART Platform with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation.