Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa 2023

13 - 18 June 2023

Art Academy of Latvia

Theme: Collaborative Authorship

Collaborative Authorship

Having a profound tradition in the history of performance art, collaboration can be developed both as a strategic and aesthetic tool in various directions resulting in pluralistic authorship. Most often though, collaborative authorship refers to an artist or artists interactively collaborating with a spectator or spectators, encouraging and facilitating the spectator’s engagement and participation in the creation of the work of art so much so that the spectator becomes a co-author. In this synergy, the question of agency and affective dynamics, as well as the experiential model of a collaborative work of art becomes crucial. When an artist collaborates with the spectator, a process-based work of art or a constructed situation is created, the outcome of which can also be immaterial and not exclusively object-based. Consequently, the very process of (co)creation, togetherness, social dynamics, communication and other elements of mutual interaction are prevalent in the festival.

Participating artists

Martin O’Brien (UK), Kira O’Reilly (IR), Erik Alalooga (EE), Marita Bullmann (DE), Butoh Group (LV), Anna Maskava (LV), Jack Catling (UK), Johannes Deimling (DE), Milan Djerkovic (SRB), Ģirts Dubults (LV), Sanita Duka, Inguna Rubene (LV), Ragnar Elnyg (FIN), Gundega Evelone (LV), Māra Gaņģe (LV), Jeļena Glazova, Māra Ulme (LV), Marija Griniuk (NO), Anastasija Gromova, Valentina Pavlova, Agnese Laganovska, Iveta Narkeviča (LV), Trine Lyngsholm (UK), Josef Ka (FIN), Performance Art Duo Kainulainen & Latva (FIN), Parsa Kamehkhosh (FIN), Victoria Karlsson (UK), Mingaile Kola (LV), Orion Maxted (UK), Ilze Mazpane (LV), Carlotta Oppermann (DE), Armīns Bernāns (LV), Sandra Betkere (LV), Rute Marta Jansone (LV), Kristaps Priede (LV), Max Provenzano (PT), PUSHPA (LV), Kristino Rav (EE), Simon Raven (UK), Anastasia Shneps-Shneppe (LV), Tomasz Szrama (PL/FI), Mailo Štern (LV), Ilmārs Šterns (LV), Mathilde Bernard (FR), Carlos Tejo (ES), Irita Tīlane-Pakalniņa (LV), Māra Ulme, Patrīcija M. Keiša (LV), Anna Viņķele (LV), Aaron Williamson (UK), Elza Zīverte, Kaspars Jaudzems (LV)

Kira O’Reilly (Ireland) "Untitled (Copper Action)". Photo by Dace Kundrate

Kira O’Reilly (Ireland) "Untitled (Copper Action)". Photo by Kristaps Dublans

Kira O’Reilly (Ireland) "Untitled (Copper Action)". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Marta Madara Grantiņa "Nasty Because Coward". Photo by Dace Kundrate

Anna Maskava "1997". Photo by Beatrise Anda Ozoliņa

Opening Performance. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Tetiana Kornieieva “Lullaby”. Photo by Aleksa Glavatska

Sarmīte Meja Kalniņa "On One Sheet". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Sanita Duka, Inguna Rubene "To Exit Suggest : Restore". Photo by Ilze Mazpane

Rute Marta Jansone "Palimpsest". Photo by Edvards Štelmakers

Ragnar Elnyg "Rockstar syndrome”. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Orion Maxted “Post-Workshop Performance” Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Mingaile Kola "Starptelpa" Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Max Provenzano "Garimpo. Search of the Golden Shower". Photo by Max Provenzano

Max Provenzano "Garimpo. Search of the Golden Shower". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Jack Catling "Chair Dance". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Ineses Strantes "Encounter at the Milky Way". Photo by Iveta Gabaliņa

Aleksandras Baltā "al ways was, al was will be". Photo by Knuts Riekstiņš

Carlotta Oppermann "Between Five Stacks". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Māras Ganģes "Second Self Battle. Conversation with Benjamin Button. Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Butoh Studio "Sprouting". Photo by Dace Kundrāte

Josef Ka "I am Edith Södergran". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Carlos Tejo "Special Offer: OnePerformance, 0.99 €". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Jeļena Glazova, Māra Ulme "Mutating Identities". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Ilmārs Šterns, Mathilde Bernard "Two Humans and a Harp". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Parsa Kamehkhosh "Only and Only If You Stare at My Hands". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Beatrise Anda Ozoliņa "The Intimate Place". Photo by Dace Kondrate

Armīns Bernāns "Dance with the Shadow". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Židrija Janušaitė "In Between. Circle of Emptiness". Photo by Dace Kundrate

Anna Vinķele "Show and Tell". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

ZONE -poème- / Mélodie Lasselin & Simon Capelle "ENEMY (a peace conference)". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Sandra Betkere "Ask Ciska". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Elza Auguste Zīverte aka NORMAL BABYY "Charge". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Milan Djerkovic "Claustrophilia". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Tomasz Szrama "Collaborative Authorship". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Ragnar Elnyg "I Fuck Like a Beast". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

BUTŌ LAB "DZEN". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

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Linda Boļšakova "Intimacy Of Strangers". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Kristino Rav & Juhan Vihterpal "An Empty Pickle". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Performance Art Duo Kainulainen & Latva "Häxeri". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Iritas Tīlanes-Pakalniņa "Blue". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Marita Bullmann "Untitled". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Martin O’Brien "It’s Good To Breathe In (This Riga Air)". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Mailō Štern "Manifesto of Chickens". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Erik Alalooga "The Random Light Orchestra". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns

Ilze Mazpane “Hope is not Enough”. Photo by Max Provenzano

Ģirts Dubults Ģirts Dubults (Latvia) “Shame. Initiation”. Photo by Max Provenzano

Performance group PUSHPA “Volume 3". Photo by Kristaps Dubļāns