Audio performance cycle “Our Gruesome Cultural Heritage”
Starting from May 18, the New Theatre Institute of Latvia (NTIL) invites you to Daugavgriva Fortress to individually attend the audio performance cycle “Our Gruesome Cultural Heritage”. Audio performance walks have been made in a remote collaborative practice of scenography and performing arts students, which took place simultaneously in three sites – Daugavgriva Fortress in Riga, Haoya island in Norway and Famagusta “ghost city” in Cyprus –, all of them being abandoned territories with nature gradually taking over their complex history.
One of the novel aspects of this gathering is to create and test new practices that can overcome distance and transfer phenomenology of place to someone who has never been there physically. 16 students and 6 mentors took part in this project, including theatre-makers and dramaturges Sodja Lotker, Krista Burāne, Yiannis Toumazis, Serge von Arx, Nurtane Karagil and Imanuel Schipper.
The audio performance cycle can be listened to free of charge by scanning walking QR codes or in the ECHOES application. The works can be listened to in Latvian and English. For better audibility, the creators encourage the use of audio headphones. Daugavgrīva Fortress is open to visitors every weekend from 10.00 to 16.00.
“Our Gruesome Cultural Heritage” is part of international project “Emergence” dedicated to research and mobility in the field of scenography. It is supported by the “Creative Europe” programme of the EU, Ministry of Culture of Latvia and State Culture Capital Foundation.
The NTIL would like to thank Sandra Jakušonoka and Vladimirs Jakušonoks from “Bolderājas grupa” for a collaboration.
Organisers: New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Norwegian Theatre Academy, Cyprus Theatre Organisation
Photo by Aivars Ivbulis
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