"Trajectories of tactilit" John Grzinich, bērnu rīts and friends
"Bērnu rīts" performances are a kind of ritual with space and movement as the main participants - but the most important method is careful listening. Instruments and sound records were either homemade or found. Performers themselves described the event for White Night as sound and space interactions.
Perfomative lecture: Staging Dissensus with Reloading Images.
Reloading Images' intervention for Survival Kit 4 focused on the intersections between artistic agency and dissensus. By employing historical and fictional elements, documents and research materials produced during the project "On Dissent - A Collective Narrative", we used different methods and approaches to explore downshifting as a dissensual practice.
Presentation of Performance: Zipper Suit with Johanna Blixt
For ideas that require more courage, Swedish artist Johanna Hästö uses the pseudonym Johanna Blixt. The artist had collected zippers and sewed them together, thus forming an armour or second skin. One day, Johanna decided that she could come to Riga only wearing this skin, a passport, and a plane ticket. This was especially significant because the Swedish word for zipper is blixtås. On White Night, Johanna told her story.
Latvian texts, served on a plate, with Kristīne Želve
What would you like to taste tonight? A piece of Skalbe or Ezera? Or may we recommend Jaunsudrabiņš? You should definitely consider Rainis...
Exclusively on White Night, the classics of Latvian literature were served in the cafe of the Tobaco Factory. Special hours of retelling, for exquisite gourmets.
Concert and performance: Trulā Grupa
The "Trulā Grupa" project (Dumb Group) was created to educate, surprise and enchant the listener with magic beats, dreamy vocals and wonderful elements of sintypop in the style of the 1980s. Although stars of this scale are known to create songs with lyrics like "baby, baby", "Dumb Group" likes difficult themes - class struggle, conquering the Universe, separation, love and dandelion sap.