Video

Collection: Courtesy of the artist.

Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze’s video It’s Just a Single Swing of a Shovel centres on Hayastan Shakarian, a 78-year-old Armenian woman living in Georgia, who unintentionally cut through a fibre-optic cable on 28 March 2011 while scavenging for scrap metal, shutting down the entire internet access for three countries. The video interprets this event as a new form of hacking by Shakarian, as she delivers media criticism by exposing the unreliability and fragility of the infrastructure with a single swing of a shovel.