Survival Kit Headquarters: Tobacco Factory
The Tobacco Factory operated for over a 100 years before it closed down in 2009.
Satellite: Survival Kit in Aizpute
The Applethink creative camp took place in the municipality of Aizpute.
Satellite: Timeline Hotel in Sigulda
Sigulda, one of the most beautiful of Latvian cities, was home to Timeline Hotel, a hotel of ephemeral art. Visitors were invited to enjoy all the best traditions of Sigulda – hospitality, tranquillity, beautiful surroundings, bountiful nature and quality of service. The hotel was located in the historical centre of the city – in the ruins of Sigulda Medieval Castle and at Sigulda New Castle. A vast spectrum of visual comforts was provided as a part of SURVIVAL KIT. Standard double, triple, semi-luxury and luxury rooms were available, along with an institutional marriage hall and rooms for people with special aesthetic needs. The rooms were decorated in various styles: Compost, Electronics, DNA, 22nd Cave Age, Solitary Post-Soviet, Northern Tower, Carpenters’ Bungalow, Maps, Personal Story, Dwelling of the Contemporary Ancestor, Anemone. The Thousand Stars Suite was available for the month, for downshifting aficionados (no reservation necessary).There were also outdoor bathing facilities in the castle courtyard, as well as refreshing drinks courtesy of Saltavots Spring. The Timeline complex also featured a stage for private karaoke sessions, spontaneous art presentations and reasonless celebrations.
In the immediate vicinities of the hotel in Sigulda there were ample opportunities for leisure activities (vertical free fall, Ferris wheel, golf, tennis and paintball, as well as bungee jumping from aerial cableway). Landscape lovers could enjoy nature walks and rafting along the Gauja River.
Timeline Hotel was a place for time-travel to the past, the future and parallel realities. It merged memories and dreams, imaginary lives and factual experience. Located in heterotopia, the space between reality and imagination, the hotel guaranteed its visitors a sensory experience of the highest quality.
Participating artists: Elīza Ceske, Ida Hansson, Joakim Hansson, Fanny Carinasdotter, Daiga Krūze, Sebastian Muegge, Eskil Liepa, Ingrīda Pičukāne, Laura Prikule, Krists Pudzens, Alexander Svartvatten, Ausma Šmite, Justin Tyler Tate, Ylva Westerhult, Eva Vēvere, as well as poets: Toms Treibergs un Krišjānis Zeļģis.
Satellite: T.E.H.D.A.S. in Tukums
The Finnish performance group T.E.H.D.A.S. visited the Tukums Region Youth Centre, creating performative actions and interventions in an urban environment. Results of the cooperation could be viewed at the Tukums Art Museum from September 7 to October 28, 2012. SURVIVAL KIT in Tukums was organized by the Tukums Art Museum.