Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art Survival Kit 2 call for artists Last September the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art produced an international art project SURVIVAL KIT, which invited over 70 artists to reflect upon diverse survival strategies in the modern world. The global society is currently actively preoccupied with this subject and it has become particularly urgent also in Latvia. The project took place in the empty shopping spaces of the city, one of the most noticeable features in the face of the economic crisis. Artists turned the empty retail premises into creative laboratories that housed exhibitions, an improvised second-hand fashion parlour, a bookstore and a whole array of activities that involved the society.
More about the project: Survival kit This autumn the next stage of the project is planned to take place, using the new initiatives and creative incubators as a platform for SURVIVAL KIT 2 project. The current situation is characterized by a fiasco of liberal capitalism, a collapse of economy, threats to the ecology, outbreaks of regional conflicts. What can artists do in this situation? Keep searching for creative survival strategies by finding innovative and witty solutions. SURVIVAL KIT 2 is characterized by the following keywords: migration, community, utopia, alternative economy, power, ecology. In the previous SURVIVAL KIT project, at the time when the society was just getting acquainted with the situation created by the economic crisis and was possibly under the illusion that it was a temporary occurrence soon to pass, artists focused on DIY strategies, using low-cost materials, short-term, spontaneous solutions, ironic attributes of spirituality, commentary and documentation of the situation. SURVIVAL KIT 2 calls for a critical analysis of the current situation as well as viewing things in a long-term perspective, changing the usual direction of thinking, focusing on sustainable strategies and taking a look into the future. Nicolas Bourriaud has said that the contemporary artist „instead of a utopian agenda [...] seeks only to find provisional solutions in the here and now” - instead of trying to change their environment, artists today are simply „learning to inhabit the world in a better way”. The participants of SURVIVAL KIT 2 will be urged to create functioning „microtopias” for the present time. The LCCA is waiting for artists` submissions that have to be sent to the e-mail address below. Submission includes: 1) Project description 2) Approximate costs 3) CV of the author Rok prijave: 15/04/10 Kontakt: Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art Solvita Krese Alberta iela 13 LV-1010 Riga Latvia tel: +371 67039282 fax: +371 67039283 [email protected] www.lcca.lv Vir podatka: uporabnik/user _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
