RIBOCA2 is embarking on a collaborative project with Arterritory.com
Alongside the unveiling of RIBOCA2 and suddenly it all blossoms online series of talks and conversations on 21 May, the 2nd Riga Biennial is embarking on a collaborative project with the art and culture website Arterritory.com. As part of this collaboration, essays will be published weekly by the writer, publicist, and architecture critic Vents Vīnbergs. His everyday observations will organically fuse with introductory narrations about the speakers of the RIBOCA2 public programmes – notable thinkers, researchers, and authors from various fields. It is an experience which expands the boundaries of the everyday, as well as a friendly invitation to reconsider one’s Thursday night plans in order to join RIBOCA2 in taking a look at the ways in which the human lives and his presence on this planet, by focusing on topics and keywords such as: Endings, Human, Love, Care, Magic, Language, Voices, Ghosts, which will present alternative possible futures, and challenge dominant assumptions and proposes perspectives for assembling possible futures.
“At times, it is hard to believe just how prophetic and in line with the currently topical ideas and meanings the concept of RIBOCA2, as well as the cooperation with our participants and the respective themes they represent, is. It is a testament to how close the link between themes represented in RIBOCA2 and our everyday lives is. I have no doubt that the participants – the public programmes speakers and the artists and the themes they explore, will captivate even the most skeptical audiences, as well as those for whom this virtual format may present a challenge. For now, the only way we can connect with participants of the biennial is by meeting them in virtual and textual conversations. Although each of us perceives things in our own way, based on our personal experiences, moods, the time and attention we can devote, I hope that the RIBOCA and Arterritory project will enrich your experiences of contemporary art,” says Agniya Mirgorodskaya, Founding Director of the Riga Biennial Foundation, and RIBOCA Commissioner.
The annual “Arterritory Conversations” publication, which is soon to be published, will be devoted to environmental and climate concerns. The digital version of the magazine "Arterritory Conversations: Detox and Healing for the Planet" will present the voices of 14 vibrant personas from all walks of life (artists, philosophers, architects, anthropologists, etc.), who with clarity and confidence will try to dispel the fog of confusion by calling on their fellow human beings not to be afraid of the challenges of the age and seeking solutions to the current crisis of environmental and human values, among them also RIBOCA2 participants: Marguerite Humeau, Vija Eniņa, Edith Dekyndt and Miķelis Fišers.
A full timetable of the RIBOCA event series, as well as biographies of participants and more detailed thematic descriptions, are available on the Public Programmes section of the RIBOCA website.
