Plazm Platform

Plazm Platform is an independent inclusive female collective based in Tbilisi, Georgia founded by Nino Dava (Sound) and Natia Chikvaidze (Movement). The platform focuses on movement, noise and claiming the post soviet monumental architecture in the new terms. Since 2021, the platform gathered professional contemporary dancers and music enthusiasts from Eastern Europe and Georgia. Through the sound installations opposing the soviet architecture, movement and new forms of merging new media with choreography, Plazm explores soviet socio-political influences on the current state of democracy and freedom of expression.

The platform aims to create new collaborative artistic space that encourages the exploration of innovative sonic and physical forms, interdisciplinary understanding of the performance as well as creating precedents of sight specific performances. rewriting the contexts of historical architecture in Tbilisi and outside of Tbilisi, where the post-soviet trauma and generational gaps are mostly emphasized.

The major multidisciplinary works of the platform includes the physical theater “Evening song, so good, check out”, Harsh noise/movement performance “Antagonism of Desire”, Public Performance with Andro Dadiani - “First Person Pause”, Sound installation “Forest, Dream” in Metro Rustaveli, Tbilisi Architectural Bienial - Project “Shorisdebuli”, Dubai - Expo (Opening Ceremony - Natia Chikvaidze), Tbilisi International Dance Festival - Plazm (2022).

Evening Song (Part 1)

So good (Part 2 )

Check Out (Part 3)

Antagonism of Desire

Harsh noise/dance performance /2024
40 min
Natia Chikvaidze (Concept, Choreography), Nino Dava (Sound, Tech support), Kompetis Universadis (Costume Design)

The performance examines the tension between traditional expectations placed on women in Georgia, entrenched societal norms, and the possibility of alternative identities.

Through movement that is deliberately limited, refined, and restrained, the choreography reflects how women navigate life within a patriarchal framework while seeking new modes of existence. The work engages directly with the current political climate, addressing struggles for freedom, identity, gender equality, and acts of resistance.

The “Anagonism of desire” is centered on a metal costume - both a tangible object and a metaphor for internal states. It shapes the dancer’s motion, producing sound and resistance, and transforms into a conduit for emotion. The costume is sourse of the saund which evolves through distorted amplification of the metal dressm movement of the dancer, her communication with the floor and placing around sound system.

In this way, the body, costume, and sound merge into a single living instrument, embodying the interplay between physicality, constraint, and the urgent drive toward liberation.
The first performance took place at Bassiani club, in frames of Queer Fest Tbilisi under the name of “Antagonism of Desire” (2024); Leter on on “In the mountains festival” - Berlin, Acud Mach Neu, (2024); Mutant radio - Plazm take over (2025).
The video documentation: Bassiani club (2024)
(c) Omer Huja

Shorisdebuli - Tbilisi Arcitectural Biennial

Hotel Saqartvelo (c) Eka Darsavelidze / Evening Song, Part 3

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Projects

Performances

Summer

Mosquitos

Archive of sweat, tears, gas and splashes

Sonic Archives of Living Assambalges

Borders, Bells

Antagonism of Desire

Forest, Dream

LAVA

Plazm Platform

Evening Song

Radio Works

Residences

Shape + / Kutaisi (2024)

FSN - Found Sound Nation / Svaneti (2023)

Europalia Festival - Brussels (2024)

Live
No Places
Forest, Dream
Non-Human Realities
Mosquitos, Fireflies
Plazm
Lava
Radio Works
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drafts

Bio/CV
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