NEW THEATRE INSTITUTE OF LATVIA

contemporary performing arts in Latvia and abroad

On 5th of December at 13:00–14:30 (EET), 12:00–13:30 (CET) together with the habitat expert Anete Pošiva-Bunkovska, artist and curator Bek Berger and artist Daniel Hengst, Forest School’s third session was hosted from Cenu tīrelis peatlands.

We looked at the parts of the land that have lost their natural vegetation under the influence of draining, thus changing the functions of the peatland ecosystem. Curator and artist Bek Berger joined the expert in the location, as well as artist Daniel Hengst through a remote format, to share their experience of plant observations and encounters with scientists and human stakeholders of the peatlands during various visits in 2019 as a result creating digital arts works, that represent the peatland as realistic as possible.

Watch the third session of the Forest School here:

To join the next sessions, use this link: ej.uz/mezaskola

Forest school’s creators:
Rebecca Birch (NO) is an artist working with entanglements of people and their local landscapes, her long-term research project Lichen Covered Stick traced histories of human-lichen encounters. She is currently Visiting Scholar at Oslo School of Environmental Humanities.
Bek Berger (LV) is an artist and the artistic director of the New Theatre Institute of Latvia. In her personal practice she has been working across German, Italian and Latvian forests and peatlands researching mechanisms to create art for non-humans.
Daniel Peltz (SE) is an artist, co-founder of Rejmyre Art Lab and Professor of Site and Situation
Specific Practices at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.
Sissi Westerberg (SE) is an artist, co-founder of Rejmyre Art Lab and Senior Lecturer at Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design in Sweden

The event is implemented by the project “ACT: Art, Climate, Transition”. Supported by the EU program “Creative Europe” and the Nordic-Baltic mobility program “Culture”.

“ACT: Art. Climate. Transition” is co-financed by the EU’s programme “Creative Europe”. ACT is a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, mass extinction and growing inequalities we join our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act. ACT is a project initiated by 10 cultural operators from 10 European countries, working in the field of performing and visual arts. More about the project read at artclimatetransition.eu.

  

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