Out of 52 works submitted for the competition to the find the best audio-visual art work in the Baltics, the following works have been shortlisted:

Marija Linciute’s  (LT) work “CCCP”

Marta Ivanova’s (LT) work “Neckties”

Anastasija Pirozenko’s (LT) works “God’s Eaters” and “Temporarily”

Ieva Balode’s (LV) works “Cilpa” and “… and to the dust we shall return”

Olga Teleša’s (LV) work “Schieles Dream”

Katrīna Neiburga’s (LV) work “Preses Nams”

Marija Molyte (LT) work “National News”

and

Marko Maetamm’s (EST) work “Blue Stories”

These ten works will be presented during the showcase presentation of competition works at 21:00 on the opening evening of the festival, 16 August at the floating arts centre “NOASS and Betanovuss” at which time the winner of the grand prix will be announced.

The works were assessed by a professional international jury: Mārtiņš Ratniks – artist, Art Academy of Latvia lecturer [LV];

Irma Stanaityte – artist, Vilnius Art Academy video lecturer [LT]; Raivo Kelomees – artist, art critic, Tallinn Art Academy new media lecturer [EST]

The “Waterpieces” would like to thank all artists who have created and submitted their audio –visual art works for the festival competition. In assessing the professional and artistic quality of the art works, the jury didn’t have an easy choice. We invite you to continue to create and showcase new video art works, as well as to apply for next year’s “Waterpieces” competition.

Supporting the development of contemporary art and the creation of new art works,   “ABLV Charitable Foundation” will award an LVL 500 cash prize to the best “Waterpieces” audio-visual art work.

The 12th international “Waterpieces” contemporary and video art festival will as usual stimulate professional competition between video artists in the Baltic region, as well as provide a comprehensive insight into the latest global trends in art of the moving image through the presentation of selected programmes from renowned media and video art festivals. Among the selections on view during this festival will be short films from the futuristic urban British video art archive “Onedotzero”, the very best works from the technologically innovative “15th Japanese Media Arts Festival”, as well as a programme from the travelling video festival “CologneOFF” which focuses on geographic and artistic boundaries, while the impact of the crisis on art of the moving image will be reflected in “Austerity Measures” – a selection of videos compiled by Portuguese curator João Laia.

The festival programme will be enlivened by sets by Latvian VJs with participants including “Gas of Latvia” and F5 and performances by text group Orbīta, Kaspars Groševs, DJ Krii and $Kodek and TV Maskava.

The Program of “Waterpieces”

16 August – opening day of the festival

21:00 Presentation of the Baltics best audio-visual art works and awards ceremony

22:30  Text – group Orbīta performance / FM Slow Show

23:00 LV VJ set featuring:

“Gas of Latvia”;

“F5″

Zane Raudiņa un Jeļena Glazova “Reborn”

17 August – second day of the festival

21:00 Kaspars Groševs/ performance by deliberate

21:30 Curator João Laia’s (Pt) programme “Austerity Measures”

22:30 DJ Krii Kruu

23:00 “CologneOFF”- video art in a global context “Mexican Visions” programme

18 August – closing day of the festival

21:00 $Kodek and TV Maskava

21:30 “Onedotzero”- adventures in moving image programme “Citystates’10”

23:00 A selection of the best works from the “15th Japan Media Arts Festival”

Exhibition accompanying the festival: “4Dialogues” at NOASS gallery from 12:00-19:00, 15 – 30 August.

A lecture by the exhibition’s curator João Laia (Pt) will take place at 19:00 on 14 August on the NOASS floating arts centre.

Entrance free

The Jury of International Contemporary and Video Art Festival’s “Waterpieces” competition for the best Baltic audio-visual art work has been selected.

This year submitted competition works will be evaluated by a professional and competent jury representing the three Baltic countries:

Mārtiņš Ratniks – Artist, Lecturer at Art Academy of Latvia [LV]

Irma Stanaityte – Artist, Video Lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts [LT]

Raivo Kelomees – artist, art critic and New Media Lecturer at Tallinn Academy of Arts [EST]

Still until June 30 is possible to enter the competition! Check here how to apply.

Visit to the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum / June 1:

Participants: NOASS team together with artists Doron Polak (Israel), Eitan Vitkon (Israel), Felice Hapetzeder (Sweden), Doris Neidl (Austria), Jay Needham (USA), Ben Neufeld (USA), Shelley Jordon (USA) and curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) and our tour was led by Rabbi Menachem Barkahan

Artists Talks / June 1 – 2

Friday, 1 June 2012

Meeting at Floating Art Gallery NOASS 

Exhibition “How Memory Survives” – photography by Eitan Vitkon & Drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio

19:00 artists talks and lectures with Felice Hapetzeder (Sweden), Doron Polak (Israel) & Eitan Vitkon (Israel)

21:30  screening ‐ SFC – Shoah Film Collection, afterwards discussion

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Saturday, 2 June 2012

Meeting at Floating Art Gallery NOASS

Exhibition “How Memory Survives” – photography by Eitan Vitkon & Drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio

17:00 artists talks and lectures  with Ben Neufeld (USA), Cristiano Berti (Italy) & Shelley Jordon (USA)

21:30 screening SFC – Shoah Film Collection, afterwards discussion

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Sunday, 3 June 2012

Meeting at Floating Art Gallery NOASS

Exhibition “How Memory Survives” – photography by Eitan Vitkon & Drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio

19:00 artist talks and lectures with Doris Neidl (Austria) & Jay Needham (USA)

21:00 finalization with screening and discussion

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Event features

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SFC – Shoah Film Collection  1-8 June 2012

Will be screened  & exhibited on  1-3 June at the Floating Art Gallery NOASS  - and during the Conference of Holocaust Museums 4 & 5 June organised by Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museums at Academy of Sciences  Riga

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RIGA – performance by Doron Polak – 1 June 2012

The performance by the Israeli artist Doron Polak, whose family roots lie in Riga, is related to the memories of his father, and will take place on 1 June at Floating Art Gallery NOASS

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Exhibition  „How Memory Survives”   – 1 – 8 June 2012

The exhibition „How Memory Survives”  presenting photographs by the Israeli artist Eitan Vitkon (Israel), and drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio, forming the basis of his animated movie „Mortale”and part of SFC – Shoah Film Collection – at Floating Art Gallery NOASS – open on  1 – 3 June 19:00 – 22:00 and 4-8 June 12:00 – 19:00

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For additional information read here.

Olgas Zitluhina dance company and Association of Choreographers in Latvia in collaboration with E-Motional Bodies & Cities invites to

international dance festival

TIME TO DANCE  2012.

June 15 – 18, 2012

There will be performances, workshops and discussions in frames of the festival.

Such artists as Editta Braun Company (Austria), Ferenc Feher (Hungary), Liv O’Donoghue & Maria Nilsson (Ireland), Dmitrijs Gaitjukevich (Latvia), Santa Kancevicha (Latvia), Kristine Vismane (Latvia), Ilze Zirina (Latvia), Olga Zitluhina and Olga Zitluhina dance company (Latvia), LKA young choreographers (Latvia), Gerd Kaisa Vorren (Norway), Catrinel Catana & Cosmin Manolescu (Romania), Iona Kewney& Joseph Quimby ( Scotland), Anna Liv Young (USA).

Workshops for intermediate and advanced level are open for applications.

Venues for the festival are: Daile’s Theatre, BETANOVUSS, Riga’s DOMS Courtyard, Riga Choreography Schlool.

Please visit our website to read more about the festival: www.dance.lv

Please do not hesitate to ask questions:  horasoc@gmail.com

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On 1 June, on the first day of summer, “Noass” floating art gallery will host the opening of an unusual exhibition: “A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012”.

“Noass” will be the venue for an exhibition of films and accompanying art works created by German artist and Director of the “artvideoKOELN” festival, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.

“Shoah film colection” is a unique global-scale initiative that was created in 2010 as a dedication to the 65th anniversary remembrance of the liberation of the prisoners from the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. The heart of the collection is comprised of video art works dedicated to the subject of “Shoah”, otherwise known as the Holocaust.

The collection’s creator has invited young art professionals from various countries around the world to depict their understanding of the theme of the Holocaust using modern means of artistic expression.

It is no coincidence that this project is being realised in Riga at the start of the summer. The holocaust in Latvia began on 4 July 1941 when Riga’s Great Choral Synagogue was burned down. This was followed by the establishment of the Riga ghetto in which not only Jewish residents from Latvia were interned, but also Jews condemned to death from other European countries.

Video films, black and white graphic works, photographic documentation of shocking associative performances, accompanied by lectures and conversations with the artists themselves, offer a vivid reminder to viewers of such subjects as tolerance and democracy, kindling society’s collective memory of the most terrible event of the 20th century – the Holocaust.

The aim of this exhibition is to reinforce the visceral understanding and conviction of viewers that these events must never occur again.

“Shoah” translated from Hebrew means catastrophe, or from Greek – Holocaust. The murder of six million people during the Second World War solely on the grounds of national belonging is a catastrophe in the history of global civilization. Every year in Europe and elsewhere in the world, exhibitions, films and museum exhibits are devoted to this horrific subject.

The organisers of the exhibition are convinced that the subject of collective memory and remembrance which will be reflected in 40 works by artists from 15 countries including Israel, Austria, Sweden, the United States and Italy will not leave Latvian viewers apathetic.

The exhibition will be on show from 1-8 June at the “Noass” floating art gallery alongside AB dambis, opposite the Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel.

Program of event:

The exhibition is being organised by Culture and Arts Project Noass (Riga).

Artist and curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, representing artvideoKOELN – international curatorial initiative “art & moving image” from Cologne, Germany.

Guest artists Doron Polak (Israel), Eitan Vitkon (Israel), Felice Hapetzeder (Sweden), Doris Neidl (Austria), Jay Needham (USA), Shelley Jordon (USA), Ben Neufeld (USA), Cristiano Berti (Italy).

Project supporters in Riga Latvian Ministry of Culture, U.S, Israeli, Swedish and Austrian embassies in Latvia, and SHAMIR Society, Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum and FG Royal Hotel.

The exhibition takes place within the parameters of the EC Culture Program’s supported multi-year collaborative project – “Engine Room Europe” implementing the activity “A-Team – artists for change“. “A-Team” is a creative process-promoting activity that takes place in Sweden, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Latvian. Its mission is in one team combining foreign artists and cultural mediators of independent cultural centers, as well as one community representative and with the help of artistic resources to deal with the public key, and a painful topical issues.

Engine Room Europe (ERE) is a three-year project (May 2011 – April 2014) with activities dedicated to independent cultural workers and their creative processes. The project is initiated by Trans Europe Halles (TEH) and co-ordinated by Melkweg (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) in association with 10 co-organizing TEH members: Factory of Art (Łódź, Poland), Mains D’Oeuvres (St Ouen, France), Stanica (Žilina, Slovakia), ufaFabrik (Berlin, Germany), TNT (Bordeaux, France), REX (Belgrade, Serbia), NOASS (Riga, Latvia), Röda Sten Art Centre (Göteborg, Sweden), La Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille, France) and Tabačka Kulturfabrik (Košice, Slovakia).