Press conference aimed at journalists and media partners

Performance by Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger 

The festival's opening event with Ingela Ihrman's (SE) and associations KLĪGA's performances

„The Stitch Project”(NO) embroidery workshop

2 pm – 6 pm Game „The power of small things” for children and adolescents

2 pm – 7 pm "The Stitch Project" embroidery workshop

7 pm – 11 pm Performance by artists' association "Klīga"

9 pm Erik Alalooga "Noose Intro" 

10.30 pm „Kunst oder Unfall” electroacoustic poetry performance

11.30 pm  TJN “Annas 2” audiovisual performance's students project game „Deja Vu”

No Show Museum is the first museum in the world about "Nothing". Its' collection includes 120 famous 20th and 21st century works of art, which focuses on the concept of "Nothing". The museum is installed in a mobile postal car, which includes 24 invisible works of art, as well as introduces development of ideas of "Nothing" in the history of art.

The curator of the project Andreas Heusser will collaborate with Latvian artist Kaspars Upacieris focusing on the topic of "Nothing" in their creative work.

Exhibition will be on view on September 8, from 2pm - 8 pm, next to the former building of National Library of Latvia

"Where Are My Flip-Flops" is a lecture-performance in which Robertas Narkus elaborate on topics such as management of circumstances, uncertainty, taxonomies of cacti and foundation of the Vilnius Institute of Pataphysics. Starting off once upon a time in a Zoo, the narrative of the lecture continues in a former shoe shop in Helsinki, moving in space and time towards a residency of a former KGB agent in the outskirts of Vilnius, travelling to Paris without a previous intention and returning back with an idea. Accompanied by findings from different places Narkus piece suggests the presence of the extraordinary in the everyday.

Discussion “Collection in a Whale's Stomach and Other Stories About Objects, Everyday Practices and Participation in Art”

Maria Lind, curator and director of Tensta konsthall will give a lecture about Survival k(n)it 7 artist Maria Louise Ekman. Marie-Louise Ekman frequently portrays everyday environments draped in pastel colours, while adding absurd and surreal elements to her work. She blurs lines and boundaries, drawing references from the history of art and fusing it all with the elements of pop culture. Her work depicts mundane and commonplace scenes, occasionally borrowed from middle-class environments. It transcends political, artistic and erotic taboos by means of playful naivety, which balances on absurdity. Marie-Louise Ekman is one of the first artists in Sweden to address the subject of domesticity, children and family.

"Last Picnics" is not only a blanket and sandwiches, but a platform for artists' performances and actions outdoor.  Five "Last Picnics" takes unusual, seemingly remote areas of Riga, which soon will be affected by urban changes - the fifth and final "Last Picnic" will be held in Lucavsala, million euros worth owned, manipulated by Riga City Council, and will be dedicated to purposeful walking. In each "Last Picnic", where anyone can picnic, artists and creative people in parallel to the traditional picnic ritual creates performances and actions."Last Picnics" are organized by Gundega Evelone and friends.

Project’s „Knitting our Communities” presentations and open discussion about the neighborhood community development strategies and methods. It combines a several of representatives from the Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian and Finnish neighborhoods, as well as space and environmental development issues expert, researcher Phil Wood from the UK and other industry professionals.

Presentation of the book “Revisiting Footnotes” and discussion

Performance by David Bernstein „Marble Man”