Riga, not the first place that springs to mind when you think about an interesting music scene. We beg to differ. Latvia’s capital is booming. The city bursts with music, art and culture. Because it’s not exactly around the corner, six very diverse Latvian acts will come to P60 on July 12th, for an evening of high quality Baltic music.

Ever since the former Soviet-Union lost its grip on Latvia (as well as Estonia and Lithuania), the seaside town of Riga has blossomed. The renewed independence in 1991 incited the capital city to acquire its very own distinct identity, which resulted in a considerable diversity of musical genres. Six acts will show their skills and uniquely Latvian sound at Out In Riga.

Guitarist Reinis Jaunais puts the emphasis on complete control over his instrument with his experimental jazz-rock fusion. Singer Imants Daksis, known and loved for his poetic and philosophic lyrics, has over the years become a big name in his country. At age 25, his catalogue already spans an impressive twelve albums and over three hundred songs. A more than excellent representative of Riga’s music scene. Indie band Gaujarts have taken it slightly slower. The five-piece released their sophomore album last year. Their catchy acoustic sounds have brought them major popularity back home.

Does Riga also get loud, you ask? The answer is an outspoken ‘yes’. Contrary to the former bands, Mango’s music is entirely in English. The brass section and fresh new EP of this ska-punk outfit will get any party started. Art-rock band Mona de Bo’s avant-garde repertoire guarantees the night is artistically correct and electro-duo Kodek represents the electronic scene, with their lo-fi breakcore.

In the spirit of broadening your horizon, P60 organizes an evening packed with surprising and diverse music from Riga.

Ticket’s are available at the P60 website (p60.nl), all Primera stores and Ben’s Corner.

More about this event check P60.nl

Culture and Arts project NOASS is proud of “Out In Riga” ideas initiator – Reinis Jaunais – who is participating in Youth in Action Programme (Action 2) “European Voluntary Service” and right now is a volunteer at P60. More about EVS.

Recent tendencies of Latvian video art in a unique one hour screening will include the video works from the “Waterpieces Contemporary and Video Art Festival” as well as the other works by emerging Latvian multimedia artists. “Waterpieces” festival is organized annually by culture and arts project NOASS (noass.lv), Riga, which among others is promoting, holding and updating the Latvian Video Art Archive from the 1980ties until nowadays.

There are 9 videos of 9 Latvian artists included in the program:

Krišs Salmanis www.salmanis.com

Katrīna Neiburga www.neiburga.lv

Indriķis Ģelzis www.indrikisgelzis.com

Edgars Lielzeltiņs vizualafizkultura.blogspot.com

Ģirts Korps www.semema.org

Mārtiņš Ratniks

Dace Džerina

Eva Lilienfelde

and Dace Tīruma.

The video art screening will be followed by a discussion about the works and a meeting with a young Latvian curator Maya Mikelsone who is currently living and working in France.

Maya Miķelsone has finished her studies of Aesthetics at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne, then an international curatorial training programme at „École du Magasin” in Grenoble. She has worked in several contemporary art galleries, in the Foundation Cartier (2008-2009) and in the contemporary art museum of Bordeaux (2011). In 2010 together with the 19th course of the curatorial training program she organized a multidisciplinary program in the National Contemporary Art Centre of Grenoble “How not to make an exhibition” which was supplemented by the edition merging the text of Nelson Godman’s book “L’Art en théorie et en action” and the photographic project of a Latvian artist Ivars Gravlejs. In 2011 she collaborated with the artist Élise Leclerq in her solo exhibition „Gestures of Experience” and together with the participants of 3rd International Gwangju Biennial Curators’ Course co-curated the video art program “Global House” shown in the Gwangju Art Space, Gwangju Design Biennial, Latvian Contemporary Art Centre and „Flat Space” in Moldova.

Event is organized by Inga Lace in cooperation with the culture and arts project NOASS. Inga Lace is a culture projects’ manager currently working at “Mains d’Œuvres” in the framework of the European Voluntary Service program. She has finished a Culture Management Master’s Program in the Latvian Academy of Culture (2010), worked as the public relations coordinator in the Riga City Exhibition Hall “Riga Art Space” (2008-2010), organized a youth education program “Behind the Scenes” in the Contemporary Art Centre kim?, Riga, (2010) and a project “Creative Dreams Factory” within the contemporary art festival “Survival kit 2” (2010).

The event will happen in English.

Free entrance.

8 young artists from 2 cultural centres – P60 (NL), NOASS (LV) perform in a live show in each venue, using audio-video expressions and collecting material inspired from the 2 exchanges, between June and September 2010.

After a month of communication at online platform international artist crews are working together at a joint project inspired by the theme: Water – natural element and its reflection of Sinking city aspect. The next stage of the project is to visit each project cities – Riga and Amstelveen, making researches in the local environment and  preparing audio visual works for live performance.

In the meantime of artists exchange they continue to communicate in project’s website – shearing experience of the previous stage, uploading audio visual materials from Riga stage, as well as preparing for the next stage in Amstelveen. In the website each artist has a profile and crews which will be created by members.

Everyone is invited to share ideas and leave comments about artist projects.

Artists:

(LV) Roberts Galvins, Kaspars Grosevs, Gatis Stauga, Kriss Zilgalvis

(NL) Ashkan Honarvar, Emile van de Coevering, Sander Houtman, Robin Koek (Riga), Marieke van de Ven (Amstelveen)

21st to 27th June - exchange in Riga

from 21st – 26th June -  research in the local environment and  preparation of audio visual works

26th June –    Art gallery NOASS and BETANOVUSS

at 17:00 presentation of the crews researches

at 21:00 live audio visual performance

later, “Mediju stacija” (Andrejsala, elektrocehs #15) – Afterparty-

13th to 19th September – exchange in Amstelveen

from 13th – 18th September – research in the local environment and  preparation of audio visual works

18th September –    P60

at 17:00 presentation of the crews researches

at 21:00 live audio visual performance

Online platform: www.watersinkingcities.org

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