Exhibition, interventions, symposium, activism, expedition, resistance, discussions, games, conversations, slow revolution, dance, secrets

Kate Krolle, Anete Vanaga (LV)

Open the door to the unknown, the metaphysical world of art and experience things, which will expand the collective consciousness of the audience beyond the hitherto disclosed horizons of creativity!

The project involves both studying the situation and offering a possibility of revolution - the choice is left up to each individual. The initiative of the revolution is aimed at weakening patriarchy by integrating images, in the Latvian urban environment, that represent feminine attributes symbolically, thus, sustaining woman as a symbol of fertility and strength and creating balance in the patriarchally oriented society. Lecturer: Ingrīda Pičukāne, MFA

FASTWURMS (CA) practice looks closely at the things we cannot see — or refuse to see. FASTWURMS creates a panoply of camp performance, costumes, ceremony, Wiccan ritual, collage, installation, cats, dance music, and cheap video production to make visible commonly held taboos around sexuality, desire, cosmology, nature, power, and the occult.

“Absurd episode from reevolution” is a role game exclusely created for the fifth “Survival Kit” with the aim of enabling any visitor to the festival to feel the exotic flavour of the revolution on their own skin, by becoming a significant revolution creating element.

Artist Nina Kurtela (DE/HR) will present her research project “Leftovers of Endurance” – together with other researchers from different fields she  summarizes, archives and initiates discussions about various questions on the theme “durational performance”.

An event for kids and their parents, where with the help of finger-paint, brushes, paint-scrolls and stamps the ex-bathroom of Lāčplēša 60 will be completely transformed. To take a break from the creative work, SURVIVAL KIT will show the video from the Riga Student Castle play “Kurts šmorē, lai atpūtinātu galvu”, that has been made with the support of the European  Fund for Integration of Third-Country Nationals (75%) and state finance (25%).

Over the course of the workshop, Israeli artist Omer Krieger will invite to participate in public space interventions designed to test various ways of creating situations based on political activism. Participants will create forms and structures using their bodies and specific elements of stage design as their main instruments. The presence of political activity may be conflicting, provocative and exciting. It is a collective practice that subjects common place and time. Human chain, circle, conversation, a new kind of demonstration - a political dance with the city.

Over the course of the workshop, Israeli artist Omer Krieger will invite to participate in public space interventions designed to test various ways of creating situations based on political activism. Participants will create forms and structures using their bodies and specific elements of stage design as their main instruments. The presence of political activity may be conflicting, provocative and exciting. It is a collective practice that subjects common place and time. Human chain, circle, conversation, a new kind of demonstration - a political dance with the city.

Representatives of various arts and cultural organizations, curators, artists, and activists from Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Ukraine and Latvian will come together to discuss the benefits and challenges of working outside centres of art and power.

Participants: Josefina Posch, artist and founder of Snowball Cultural Productions (SE); Åse Løvgren, artist, curator, and part of the collaboration Rakett (NO) with Karolin Tampere; Paula Toppila, curator and director of the contemporary art festival IHME (FI); Yulia Bardun, curator, founder and director of the cultural initiative Tranzit (RU); Francisco Camacho, artist (CO / NL); Omer Krieger, artist and artistic director of the Under the Mountain New Public Art Festival (IL); Kateryna Radchenko, artist and curator (UA); Dāvis Kaņepe, activist and director of “Kaņepes Culture Centre” (LV); Ilya Budraitskis, historian, activist, journalist (RU); Aida Eltorie, curator (EG)

While waiting for the end of the world writer Andis Geste presents his book “6. atols”. Author of illustrations: Ieva Saulīte, editors: Pēteris Draguns and Ilze Ķīķere. The walls will be spared, however, the visitors will be entertained by sparkling performances and readings of the book by acknowledged personalities.

Philosopher Normunds Kozlovs (lecturer at Rīga Stradiņš University and Liepaja University) invites all those who are interested and curious, including the latent activists, to join him for an informal discussion about activism today.

An activist - usually a young and vivacious person who spends his/her time in a company of like-minded people, united by similar world views, style, interests, and eating habits. Usually, an activist is fighting against the established economic or political situation, and is in favour of “something” opposite and alternative. Tends to move around in groups, occasionally organizes public campaigns. Often has adverse health habits, which are offset by a healthy diet.

Survival Kit 5 in collaboration with the Sarkandaugava Development Association will be holding a varied programme inviting to “occupy” Sarkandaugava in order to turn it from the underrated outskirts of Riga into the epicentre of events at least for one day.

“Occupy Sarkandaugava” will encourage to explore this historic neighbourhood of Riga that, at the beginning of the 18th century, Tsar Peter I had intended to develop as the new centre of Riga. What is the area that under different circumstances could have become the new city centre like? What would the city be like if in order to get to the centre one would have to go to Sarkandaugava and not the other way round?

Participants: Jonas Buechel (DE/LV), Maija Rudovska, Ramona Buša-Virtmane, Vladislavs Saveļjevs, Alija Turlaja etc.

Kate Krolle, Anete Vanaga (LV)

Meeting place: conspiracy flaton the 2^nd floor of building 1985.

Music: Soundarcade and project Bigband by band Tesa.