Video from installation ”ARMPIT”, Latvian pavilion at the 56th Venice Art Biennale.
Sound: Andris Indāns, Jānis Šipkevics, Andris Eglītis, Riga Dom Cathedral Boys Choir, The Riga Technical University male choir “Gaudeamus”
Video, 2:20 min, 2015
The sound in the video was a specially made composition that imitates sounds and noises of garages. The composition was performed by Riga Dom Cathedral Boys Choir and The Riga Technical University male choir “Gaudeamus”.
The closed microcosm of garage co-ops, where the socio-economic environment has blended with personal space, provides a step back in time. Men are still boys, but their tinkering is both the trade and hobby of individual entrepreneurs, since self-exploitation as leisure time activity is a time capsule where neoliberalism has enclosed the postindustrial proletariat.
Artist's Bios:
Katrīna Neiburga graduated from the department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia, and studied in Sweden. Neiburga creates installations, video and light projections, scenography, video for operas and theatre productions. Since 2000 she actively participates in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. Neiburga was the first winner of the first Purvītis Prize 2009.
Andris Eglītis received an MA in painting and studied at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. Eglītis has received nominations and won several awards, among them the Purvītis Prize in 2013.