International student camp “Our Gruesome Cultural Heritage”
On 15 March we launched international student camp Our Gruesome Cultural Heritage for three student groups from Latvia, Norway and Cyprus. Camp continues on 20-30 April with students working in three different sites and sharing their experience and findings with each other using various methods with an aim to create a collective artistic practice.
During the camp students research the history, stories and materiality of three sites – Daugavgrīva 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.
There are 18 students and 6 mentors taking part in the project, including theatre makers and dramaturges Sodja Lotker, Krista Burāne, Yiannis Toumazis, Serge von Arx, Nurtane Karagil and Imanuel Schipper.
Photo documentation of the first days of the camp at Daugavgrīva Fortress in Riga.
Our Gruesome Cultural Heritag 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.
Organisers: New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Norwegian Theatre Academy, Cyprus Theatre Organisation
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