Curators’ presentations about contemporary video art of Baltics

On 16 August, 17:00-20:30, The 14th International Contemporary and Video Art Festival “Waterpieces”  programme will continue in Kronvalda park, near the Riga City Canal with curators’ talks and open-air film screenings.

Looking at the many impulses shaping our urban, cosmopolitan experience, curator Eglė Mikalajūnė (National Gallery of Art, Lithuania) will introduce the generation of Lithuanian artists born in the 1970s and 1980s in her programme “Cityscapes on the Verge”. The video selection foregrounds work by eight moving image artists from Lithuania, and directs our attention to the city – a living organism, that speaks to people through its architectural forms and natural segments, and which flourishes betwixt hutments and high-rises. The second talk will reflect on trending urban movements and changing cityscapes as seen by the artists currently living and working in Estonia; this will be in the programme curated by Sten Ojavee (Contemporary Arts Center, Estonia).