This workshop is intended to explore various cooperation strategies among art institutions, artists, curators and researchers, aimed at search for new forms of communication and involving local context. Withdrawing from the traditional exhibition practices that assign a predetermined place and function to the artist, the institution and the curator, it is possible not only to discover new patterns of cooperation but also master a new language for …
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LCCA is preparing a series of events in the spring of 2012 to reveal all possible forms of cooperation between artist and curator, artist and theoretician, artist and institution. These events aim to broaden the concept of cooperation and offer an alternative to the traditional experience where quite a determined role has already been assigned to artist, curator and spectator. This project concentrates a great deal of …
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Projects website www. dca-project.eu and digitisingcontemporaryart.eu The European Commission and the Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA) consortium, comprising 25 partners from 10 EU Member States and 2 associated countries, Croatia and Iceland, have officially launched the project Digitising Contemporary Art initiating a significant increase in the presence of contemporary art in Europeana, the single access point to Europe’s cultural heritage. Over 30 months 21 museums and art institutions …
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Conference Recuperating the Invisible Past. Perspectives and ways of dealing with the complexity of art history of the 1960ies – 1980ies in Eastern Europe Date: 17 – 18 May Venue: Goethe Institute in Riga, Torna Street 1a The conference Recuperating the Invisible Past will focus on the most recent understanding and approaches of writing and translating modernist and neo-avant-garde art from the 60ies – 80ies in Eastern …
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“MuVi 2010” 26.04.2011./ 19:00, Dirty Deal Cafe, Maskavas street 12/k.2, Riga Since 1999 The Oberhauzen Short film festival awards best German music videos with MuVi prize. The programme offers best German music videos of 2010. “Artists films and videos” 26.04.2011./ 20:30, Dirty Deal Cafe, Maskavas street 12/k.2, Riga Videos by artists of various nationalities and countries. Entry: 2 Lats (for the whole evening programme) “Best German short …
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From March 16 to April 13 the Office Gallery of Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art at 13 Alberta Street will be housing Ziggurat – the 8th project in the Poetic Robotism series by artists Eva Vēvere and Laura Prikule. The title Ziggurat alludes both directly and associatively to ziggurat as a multilevel sacred structure. Not only the building itself is part of a larger and orderly universe, …
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Since May 2011 Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art is coordinating the international collaboration project “Survival Kit. Art linking society, knowledge and activism”. The project is searching for survival strategies and research “microtopias” of the modern world and is being carried out in close partnership between: Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga, Latvia), Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) (Vilnius, Lithuania), New Media Culture Centre RIXC (Riga, Latvia), art, research …
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Līga Purmale and Miervaldis Polis with M. Polis works „Frying Pans”. 1975. Photographer Atis Ieviņš Exhibition Parallel Chronologies. Invisible History of Exhibitions Date: 17 May – 4 June Venue (co-produced by): Riga City Art Space (Intro Hall), Kungu Street 3, Old Town International exhibition Parallel Chronologies investigates the exhibitions as a cultural phenomenon and a genre on its own right focusing on the period determined by the …
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How to cook the future? What will be the indegrients? And how to eat it? In April, 2011 The Latvian Centre for Contemporary art offers a series of lectures “Foresight”. Five lectures will be given by the best cooks of “Recepies of Future”. There will be talks and discussions about values, resources and ideas of how to shape the day of tomorrow for individuals and whole Latvia. …
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SK3 Open call for project proposals ended on 21st of February. The festival team received more than 60 proposals and right now is going through them and processing. The team will start the contacts with the artists in the middle of March. Parallelly a row of great international artists have confirmed their participation: Ahmet Ogut http://www.ahmetogut.com/, Dan Perjovschi http://www.perjovschi.ro/ and Adam Leech http://adamleech.net/ are coming to Riga …
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