NEW THEATRE INSTITUTE OF LATVIA

contemporary performing arts in Latvia and abroad

Adventures can be found everywhere. The International Festival of Contemporary Theatre “Homo Novus” is looking for artists, researchers and representatives of various cultural field interested in text and willing to spend the first week of September in a performative book rewriting workshop in Riga.

Montreal collective PME-ART’s book rewriting installation-performance “Adventures can be found anywhere, même dans la répétition” was held for the first time two years ago at the TransAmeriques festival and was dedicated to the rewriting of Susan Sontag’s early diaries. It is a tribute to the imaginative possibilities of reading as re-writing, how we each have our own version of the books we read, how we mix them with our lives and with the world around us. By making this analogy literal and performatively enacting this metaphor, we hope to create a space for an ongoing conversation between coincidence, insight and nuance.

Interested candidates must be available from August 30 to September 6, and must attend at least two informational workshop sessions with the artists within the upcoming months. Books can be re-written in Latvian and English or translated into one of these languages. An artist fee will be paid to those participating in the writing, corresponding to the average salary in Latvia.

Please send your CV and a letter of motivation (one page A4) to santa@theatre.lv. We kindly ask that you include in your application the title of a book (or books) that you would like to rewrite and the reason why that book exactly.

Application deadline: April 18 (23:59). The selected participants will be announced by April 22. In case of any questions, please write to santa@theatre.lc or call: +371 23775432

PME-ART — which refers, among other things, to Pretty Much Everything—is a loosely defined Montréal-based interdisciplinary group. Through explorations and innovations over the last twenty plus years, we have consistently partnered with other artists to devise new collaborative projects, giving rise to unusual performances that combine theatre, music, literature, visual art, poetry, and philosophy, based on both theoretical and practical research. Full of paradoxes and contradictions, the work is often destabilizing. Such destabilization is not only about art; it echoes the social and personal discomfort so often encountered in daily life. We believe acknowledging uncomfortable realities (instead of pretending they are not there) is of fundamental importance to developing generous and unpredictable critical approaches.

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