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 (www.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.

Building a sustainable independent cultural sector

Engine Room Europe (ERE) is a three-year programme (May 2011 – April 2014) of activities dedicated to independent cultural workers and their creative processes. 20 projects take place in 14 European countries, including artistic productions, festivals, training workshops, conferences, research, staff exchange, volunteer projects, residencies and debates, all committed to the capacity building objectives of ERE.

Highlights of Engine Room Europe 2011 – 2014

Staff Exchange Programme: Mobility of non-artistic cultural professionals between cultural centres in Europe. TEH Leaders Lab: Cross-European Leadership Training focusing on northern and southern European relations. A-Team – Artists for Change: tackling community issues through creative action. Living (under) Ground: Creative architecture laboratory. Crossroads East West: Research and debate on intercultural dialogue. 220 Volt! and Business Volunteering: Empowering the cultural volunteer sector. Creative Strategies of Sustainability: Research and practice on green strategies for the cultural sector. EAR: European Artists in Residency. Sector 3: Conference on empowering the independent cultural sector in Spain and beyond. TEH Resource: The main legacy of Engine Room Europe will be an interactive and free resource for the independent cultural sector that will bring together models of best practice, methodologies for development learning, advocacy and archiving for future generation of cultural workers.

TEH Meetings 2011 – 2014

TEH network meetings take place twice every year, each time in a different centre and country. All TEH Meetings during 2011 – 2014 will include an Engine Room Europe Training Platform offering practical training and capacity building for all participants.

The Engine Room Europe programme is initiated by Trans Europe Halles (TEH) and coordinated by Melkweg (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), in association with TEH members Factory of Art (Lodz, Poland), Mains D’Oeuvres (St Ouen, France), Stanica (Zilina, Slovakia), ufaFabrik (Berlin, Germany), TNT (Bordeaux, France), REX (Belgrade, Serbia), NOASS (Riga, Latvia), Röda Sten Art Centre (Göteborg, Sweden), La Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille, France) and Tobacka (Kosice, Slovakia).

For the full list of Engine Room Europe activities visit www.teh.net

For more information about NOASS in TEH visit section in our home page Trans Europe Halles

“Engine Room Europe is a three-year programme (April 2011-May 2014) of activities dedicated to independent cultural workers and their creative processes. It is initiated by Trans Europe Halles (TEH) and co-ordinated by Melkweg (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) in association with 10 co-organizing TEH members. Engine Room Europe has been funded with the support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein”.

Oslo Screen Festival now is open for entries to Festival’s third edition in March 2012 and would like to invite artists and filmmakers to send their works. The deadline for entries is November 1st.

Please visit Oslo Screen Festivals’ homepage and to submit your work!

During the “Open House” meeting we will introduce you to the mobility and artistic exchange project E-Motional Bodies & Cities. We will describe the various opportunities the project offers to the artists and art managers who wish to share their experience and ideas in the field of contemporary dance.

There are four Latvian artists who have joined the project now: Olga Zitluhina, Kaspars Lielgalvis, Katrina Albuze and Anna Dubrovska. At the open house meeting they will tell about their current artistic work and give an insight of their involvement in E- Motional Bodies & Cities project.

Besides, you will have an opportunity to meet Romanian artists – Mihaela Dancs and Madalina Dan – who have spent 28 days in artistic residence in Riga. They have lived in the Floating Arts Centre Noass in September, 2011, working on a dance piece that will be premiered in October, 2011, and performed for a wide Latvian audience in November, 2011. In the evening of September 27th Mihaela and Madalina will present an outcome of their creative process in Riga.

Meeting will end with friendly informal chat over a glass of wine.

Although the atmosphere is supposed to be warm, don’ t forget to take a) pullover for the chilly autumn evening on the Floating Art Centre!

E-Motional Bodies & Cities is a mobility and artistic exchange dance programme, gathering artists and managers from frorm five Europian countries – Cyprus, Ireland, Great Britain, Latvia, Romania. Project`s co–organizer in Latvia is Association of Professional Contemporary Dance Choreographers in Latvia.

Additional information about the project: www.e-motional.eu and www.dance.lv

Additional information about the event: Ilze Zīriņa, director at Association of Professional Contemporary Dance Choreographers in Latvia, e-mail: ilzezirina@gmail.com

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This invitation reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

This project has been co financed by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.

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September 8 – Opening day

20:00 Opening of The Festival

20:30 – 23:00 “CologneOFF VII” programme

• Inner war (50 min.)
• Mysterious Entanglements (50 min)
• A Matter of Identity (50 min)

23:00 – 00:30 Selection of works from 15th Japan Media Arts Festival (JMAF) Part I

Parallel to the screenings of Waterpieces 5 instalations from CologneOFF will take place on the floating art centre “Betanovuss”. Videoart from the countries around the Baltic Sea:

1. Germany curated by Agricola de Cologne / Poland curated by Antoni Karwowski
2. Russia curated by Vika Ilyushkina / Finland curated by Pekka Ruuska
3. Sweden curated by Jonas Nilsson / Eva Olsson / Norway curated by Margarida Paiva
4. Estonia curated by Raivo Kelomees / Iceland / Denmark / Latvia / Lithuania curated by Agricola de Cologne
5. The Caucasians: Solo – Irena Gabiani (Georgia), Videoart from Armenia

WATERPIECES 2011

September 9 – 2nd Day of the Festival

20:30 – 22:00 “CologneOFF VII” programme Art and the City

• Mirrors (45 min.)
• Velvet Undergraund (45 min.)

22:00 – 23:30 Selection of Films from The Archive of The International Short Film Festival Oberhauzen

Parallel to the screenings 5 programmes in the exhibition:

1. Still Fighting – Videoart from Africa
2. Solo Larissa Sansour / Videoart from Palestine
3. Black & White – CologneOFF VII – special selection
4. Land-scaping – CologneOFF VII – special selection
5. Expression of Freedom – Ex-Soviet Union

WATERPIECES 2011

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September 10 – Final day of the Festival and Contemporary Culture Forum “White Night”

 19:00 – 22:00 Ambient Music Evening “Skaļā daba”

22:00 – 22:30 presentation of works from Waterpieces animation workshop “Naive Animation in Naive Art Museum”

22:30 – 23:30 “CologneOFF” programme “1 minute Cologne” – 60×60 60 videos in 60 minutes

23:30 – 01:00 Selection of works from 15th Japan Media Arts Festival (JMAF) Part II

Parallel to the screenings 5 programmes in the exhibition:

1. Videoart from Chile & Argentina
2. Space, Colour & Emotions – videoart from Latin America
3. 20/20 & Home-made Videos – Hong Kong
4. Blackmail – Solo: Marianna & Daniel O’Reilly (UK)
5. Inner Ruling: Perceiving the Real – videoart from Asia

WATERPIECES 2011