RIXC “Fields” Residency 
19/08/2019 – 23/08/2019
RIXC / RIXC gallery, Lenču iela 2

A group of artists – Ivo Taurins, Ieva Viksne, Liga Velina and Rasa Smite performed field recordings, both sound and video, collected visual materials from abandoned farms for photogrammetry and visualised data of the Kurzeme population and migration. Ivo Taurins made sound recordings revealing the invisible activities of Latvia’s nature and night animal world, while Rasa Smite was experimenting with pine tree resin, extracting turpentine and rosin (colophon). In the closing program, during the RIXC “Lunch Talk”, the residency artists presented their most interesting findings and first results of this year’s summer residence.

RIXC “Lunch Talk” (28/08/2019) program’s featured presentations of all Fields residency artists as well as artist – David Rothenberg is a musician and philosopher, who wrote Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful and many other books, published in at least eleven languages.  Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has more than twenty CDs out, including One Dark Night I Left My Silent House, which came out on ECM. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliot Sharp, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. The performance at RIXC “Lunch Talk” based on his latest book – Nightingales in Berlin, which is also CD, and film.

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Data collecting in the Fields residency

… Sound recordings of the wild animals moving in the night, experiments with the pine tree resin transformation, extracting the turpentine, visualizations of population and migration data in Kurzeme region of Latvia, 3D scanning of abandoned farms, and other multimedia experiments, which a group of artists performed during the RIXC “Fields” residency this summer, was a continuation of “green” exploration. Along with the broad scale of “green” topics presented in “Un/Green”, RIXC festival exhibition, which currently is on view at the National Art Museum in Riga, the “Fields” residency artists suggested to look at ecology theme from the perspective of migration: “Migration is a natural law: everything moves, everybody migrates” (RISK Change* project concept).

The closing program of RIXC “Fields” residencies will take place on Thursday, August 29, at 16:00 in “Lunch Talk” series at the RIXC gallery, Lenču iela 2. It will include presentations by this summer “Fields” residency artists – Ivo Taurins, Ieva Viksne, Liga Velina and Rasa Smite. 

RIXC “Lunch Talk” also will feature special guests – Charles Lindsay, conceptual artist, and David Rothenberg, musician, who will play live music together with pre-recorded sounds by nightingale songs in Berlin.

During RIXC “Fields” Residency, taking place from August 19 – 23, 2019, in Kurzeme region, a group of artists – Ivo Taurins, Ieva Viksne, Liga Velina and Rasa Smite performed field recordings, both sound and video, collected visual materials from abandoned farms for photogrammetry and visualised data of the Kurzeme population and migration. Ivo Taurins made sound recordings revealing the invisible activities of Latvia’s nature and night animal world, while Rasa Smite was experimenting with pine tree resin, extracting turpentine and rosin (colophon). In the closing program, during the RIXC “Lunch Talk”, the residency artists will present their most interesting findings and first results of this year’s summer residence.

The theme “green” was continued during the “Fields” residency, however, more profoundly this notion has been explored in the exhibition “Un/Green”, which is open to visitors until September 22, at the Latvian National Museum of Art. RIXC also welcomes visitors to the “Lost in Code” exhibition in RIXC gallery, in which participates three young female artists – Liga Velina, Ieva Viksne and Milda Ziemane. Opening hours of the exhibition “Lost in code” in RIXC gallery: from Monday until Saturday 12.00 – 18.00, closed on Sundays. Admission free.

RIXC Lunch Talk programme:

16.00 – RIXC “Fields” residency presentations by Ievas Viksne, Ligas Velina and Ivo Taurins

16.30 – Coffee break and informal talks, during which Rasa Smite will introduce the “Un/Green” exhibition and GREEN, new European project, as well as the future plans of the new LiepU un RISEBA master program “New Media and Audiovisual Arts”.

17.00 – Charles Lindsay “Recipes for the Mind”, presentation

17.30 – David Rothenberg “Nightingales in Berlin”, performance

18.30 – Guided tour through the exhibition “Lost in Code” exhibition by Liga Velina, Ieva Viksne and Milda Ziemane.