Magic Carpets artist residency in Latvia
Photographer Odeta Catana from Rumania is an artist of the international collaboration platform Magic Carpets. During her residency in Latvia she collaborates with the theatre collective Kvadrifrons on the creation of their new performance “Grandmothers State”. In May 2019, Odeta together with Latvian artists visited the protagonists of the new performance, and started to work on her own photo story on grandmothers to be presented in Cēsis on June 29 as part of the premiere.
“Grandmothers State” is a semi-documental theatre piece conceived and created by the performers of collective Kvadrifrons, director Pauļa Pļavniece and dramaturgs Justīne Kļava and Evarts Melnalksnis. In artists’ words it tells the story about “a life-long love and the ways our grannies raised us, taught, took care and annoyed us. It’s a story about reconciliation and coming of age. About Latvian population gradually growinging older. About awfully low pensions. About tasty soups and pancakes. About generations living together happily, about overcaring and family bonds.”
“Grandmothers State” premieres on June 29 at the conversation festival “Lampa” in Cēsis and will later tour to several Latvian cities.
Magic Carpets is an international collaboration platform that provides residency opportunities for emerging European artists where they have the chance to collaborate with local communities and artists and to work in the field of socially engaged and responsible art creating new multi-disciplinary artworks related to current issues of global nomadism, displacement and encountering otherness.
More info on the artist residencies in 2018: Magic Carpets residencies
The platform and residencies are co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
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