Riga 2016 Schedule – Practicing Communities: Transformative societal strategies of artistic research
How does artistic research transform society?
at Eduarda Smiļģa Teātra Muzejs, E. Smiļģa ielā 37/39
and at Zirgu Pasts, Latvian Academy of Culture/Latviljas Kultῡras Akadēmija, Dzirnavu iela 46, Riga.
The schedule is subject to change.
Thursday, March 17th late afternoon, 2016
Arrival
Friday, March 18th – Eduarda Smiļģa Teātra Muzejs, E. Smiļģa ielā 37/39
8:00 We meet in the reception to walk together to take the bus from Gertrudes Iela to E. Smiļģa ielā 37/39
9:00 Registration atEduarda Smiļģa Teātra Muzejs/Theatre Museum
9:30 Welcome to NSU
9:40 Introduction of participants
11:00 C O F F E E
11:30 Sezen Tonguz – Transformative power of public space as artistic venue
12:00 Sam Skinner – Imagining the material community
12:30 Elina Saloranta –Window as a film screen: a rehearsal for an epilogue
13:00 L U N C H
14:30 Wanda Zyborska –Scarred aged skin and material body: ageing as transformation and becoming
15:00 Jon Irigoyen – Working the community: transforming the society though art practice
15:30 Ami Skanberg Dahlstedt – Suriashi Intervention
16:00 C O F F E E
16:30 Joanna Sperryn Jones & Craig Newsom – ABC: Association of Blackburn Colleges, UK & USA
17:00 Jaana Kokko – The notion of political space
17:30 Zane Radzobe, Dmitrijs Petrenko & Janis Balodis – Performing the break: The Last Pioneer in the context of Latvian society and Theatre
*D I N N E R (not provided by NSU)
E V E N I N G P ROGRAMME S E S S I O N S
20:00 Monique Wernhamn & Henrik Andersson – The misunderstood geniuses get help from the community to customize an extraordinary performance
20:30 Erica Böhr – Totem
21:00 Olga Zithluhina and students from the Latvian Academy of Culture
Saturday, March 19 at Zirgu Pasts, Latvian Academy of Culture/Latviljas Kultῡras Akadēmija, Dzirnavu iela 46
9:30 Questions from the previous day & discussion
10:30 Nathalie Fari – Translating spaces: the body as translator at the emergence of on-site performances
11:00 Anthony Luvera – Who Empowers Whom? Community, Participation, and Reciprocity in socially-engaged photographic practice
11:30 C O F F E E
12:00 Wiktoria Furrer & Spicy Curatorial Practices Collective – Donate to Curate or the art of micropractice
12:30 Alexandra Litaker – Material transformations
13:00 L U N C H
14:30 Disa Kamula – The non economic value of Artistic Research
15:00 Lisbeth Sandvall – Narrative drawing debts and strategies: a project about research methods and ways of conveying research results to a wider public
P A R A L L E L S E S S I O N S
Room 212
15:30 Jo Neil – Observation/Transformation/Translation
Theatre
15:30 Rafael Dernbach & Ragnhild Freng Dale – Decolonizing the future: science fiction as speculative, transformational and ethnographic practice
16:00 C O F F E E
Room 212
16:30 Gemma Meek &Jo Darnley – “Woman’s Outlook” past, present, future, rip, mark, stick, create, multi- vocal image making
Theatre
16:30 Luisa Greenfield – Biological wisdom and social transformation: a collective exploration
Room 212
17:00 Beatriz Loranzo – Contemplation as artistic experience
Theatre
17:00 Per Roar – Transformative practice: observations from transformative process in a community of practice
19:00 SYMPOSIUM D I N N E R
Sunday, March 20 at Zirgu Pasts, Latvian Academy of Culture/Latviljas Kultῡras Akadēmija, Dzirnavu iela 46
9:00 Questions from the previous day & discussion
10:00 Catherine Dormor – The Seamstress and the Traveller: art practice as generous encounter
10:30 Stephanie Hanna – The wise and the ways
11:00 C O F F E E
11:30 Ginta Zabarovska – Re-building jewellery art: the possibilities of transforming jewellery art teaching methods
12:00 Group discussion and close of symposium
*D E P A R T U R E
*Please note, dinner on Friday night and lunch on Sunday will not be provided by NSU