Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa 2022

15 - 19 June 2022

Art Academy of Latvia

Theme: Otherness

Otherness

The theme of the 2022 festival is "Otherness". This thematic scope offers wide interpretation opportunities and a potential of mutual overlapping and cross-fertilisation of disciplines. It opens up a question how we define the Other and where we draw the borders between ourselves and the Other. Often the Other is marginalised and excluded on the basis of stigmas and stereotypes. How we define the Other also becomes a political question entailing questions of race, ethnicity, sex and gender, sexuality, disability, socio-economic status etc. Thus, Otherness really makes us reconsider the issues of identity, especially in the light of recent boom in populism and polarisation of society.

Participating artists

Arvis Kantiševs (LV), ANIMIST (LV), Anna Maskava (LV), Josef Ka (FI/RU), Aleksandrs Aleksandrovs (LV), “SonoR” (SE/FR), Timo Viialainen (FI), Camilla Graff Junior (DK), Ibalu Alba (DE), PUSHPA (LV), Maruta Grāvīte-Indrāne (LV), Elza Auguste Zīverte (LV), Daria Kalashnikova (UA), Sarmīte Meja Kalniņa (LV), Anna Viņķele (LV), Sandija Santa (LV), Paula Betija Antenišķe (LV), Anastasija Gromova (LV), Madara Linna Ēvalde (LV), Ilva Minajeva (LV), Dalia Kiaupaite (LT), Franciska Anna Beļāne (LV), Beatrise Anda Ozoliņa (LV), Eglė Nešukaitytė (LT), Astrid Valencia (MX), Mailo (LV), Huge Sillytoe (UK), Milan Djerkovic (SB), Mingaile Kola (LV), Simona Orinska’s Butoh Studio (LV), Laura Feldberga (LV), PePa (AR), Santiago Cancion (AR), Mathilde Rohr (FR/CA), Larysa Bauge (NL), Marta Madara Grantiņa (LV), RiACTING (LV), Ilze Mazpane (LV).

Simona Orinska’s Butoh Studio “9”. Photo by Anna Maskava

Mingaile Kola “Essentitas
identidem”. Photo by Anna Maskava — Mingaile Kola “Essentitas identidem”. Photo by Anna Maskava

Timo Viialainen “Bulb”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Beatrise Anda Ozoliņa, Eglė Nešukaitytė, Astrid Valencia. “De Effect Instinct”. Photo by Anna Maskava

Anna Maskava "Animacy". Photo by Ričards Zaļmežs

Sandija Santa “The Well”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Sarmīte Meja Kalniņa
“The presence of the
absence”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns — Sarmīte Meja Kalniņa “The presence of the absence”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Daria Kalashnikova “How long this can last?”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Josef Ka, Aleksandrs Aleksandrovs “War and Elephant”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Animist “*£¥% ANIMO÷SONATIC ÷×)₩”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Arvis Kantiševs “Albus Diabolus”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Huge Sillytoe “Another Otter in the Gutter,
What Other Bother Could be
Better?”. Photo by Anna Maskava — Huge Sillytoe “Another Otter in the Gutter, What Other Bother Could be Better?”. Photo by Anna Maskava

Milan Djerkovic “Build a Person”. Photo by Anna Maskava

Mailo “Gender Bender II”. Photo by Anna Maskava

Elza Auguste Zīverte “Hoarder”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Ibalu Alba “The outsider/within”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Maruta Grāvīte-Indrāne “(con)Graduation”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns