Art Activism: Take Part, Take Care. PARTICIPATORY ART EXHIBITION & INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE
Association "I-DEJAS MAJA" ·Latvia
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The participatory art event and exhibition Art Activism: Take Part, Take Care will be about politics in our everyday life, about skills and knowledge on how to raise a sustainable society and be a responsible part of it. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The PARTICIPATORY ART EXHIBITION & INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE will be an interactive exhibition and performance events created by contemporary art, dance and theatre professionals with the participation of theatre company Teater K:13 from Bergen, Norway. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The exhibition will be based on a study of the cultural activities of the Latvian People's University, trade unions and workers’ clubs in Riga, the semi-professional Riga Workers' Theatre at the beginning of the last century. This historical material will serve as an example of good practice how less privileged groups of society gain their own </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">stage by uniting and self-organizing. The exhibition will offer a history lesson and creative participation to learn about an involvement in politics and art activism. The exhibition will consist of contemporary art installations by professional artists and will be integrated in the public area of the Trade Union House. There will be historical materials and artefacts about Riga Workers’ theatre integrated in the installations. The main task of the exhibition is to ask questions about participation and its forms today. Attendants will be provoked to create futuristic visions of their own lives. There will take place an interactive performance created by theatre directors of theatre K:13 from Bergen, Norway. Attendants will be involved in the process of interactive theatre to provoke expression of political attitudes and after unveiling the theatrical situation to discuss it. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The program of the exhibition will include a seminar and workshop for drama teachers on interactive theatre methods in working with adolescents, free dance classes held by pedagogues of I-DEJAS MAJA as well public lectures. </span></span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
The bilateral partnership contributed to the project’s results by providing experience and professional know-how to develop a co-created art event with elements of interactivity. The shared results of the creative process were achieved successfully, the collaboration led to improved knowledge and understanding of how to implement interactivity in the participatory theatre production, and the partnership led to the exchange of experience in building democratic relationships among creative team members that will be continued with a wider effect of deepened understanding of the connection between politics and art. Project partners developed plans to continue the bilateral collaboration and already applied for the next cooperation project Freedom of Speech - an interactive performance for youth in the frame of The Nordic Culture Point: 1/23 Culture and Art Programme, Application: 30097.
Project partners
- K:13 (former Kompani13) Donor project partner· Norway