{"id":5039,"date":"2026-03-27T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theatre.local\/festival-spa-ieteikumi-radosam-pauzem\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:30:35","slug":"festival-spa-ieteikumi-radosam-pauzem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/festival-spa-ieteikumi-radosam-pauzem\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival SPA. The Art of Slowing Down Creatively"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Across the world, including in the performing arts and cultural sector, we are increasingly confronted in our daily lives with overload, burnout, and the need for more balanced working practices.<\/p>\n

To address this, three contemporary performing arts festivals \u2013 \u201cHomo Novus<\/a>\u201d (Latvia), \u201cSantarcangelo<\/a>\u201d (Italy) and \u201cMladi Levi<\/a>\u201d (Slovenia) \u2013 have joined forces to collectively seek answers to this issue. Four internationally recognized experts Julia Asperska, Marta Keil, Bek Berger, and Silvia Bottiroli have compiled a list of recommended readings and examples that can serve as inspiration and support for building more sustainable organizational structures and festival practices.<\/p>\n

Within the European Union\u2019s Creative Europe programme project \u201cFestival SPA,\u201d these experts are conducting an in-depth analysis of performing arts festivals and developing recommendations on how to find a balance between creation and recovery, intensity and the conscious slowing down of pace in a creative environment. We aim to integrate these insights into future events and festival practices. Following this project, a more comprehensive publication will be made publicly available, but for now we are sharing the recommended reading list.<\/p>\n

Projects \/ Artistic Institutions \/ Festivals<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • Pause as Resistance<\/a>, Tanzfabrik Berlin<\/li>\n
  • Performing Life Akademia Network<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Plastique Danse Flore<\/a> \u2013 Dance festival in the vegetable gardens of the Kings Palace in Versailles. They offer sanctuary for dance works to exist in a relaxed environment. Audience members often fall asleep in the sunshine.<\/li>\n
  • Arts Wellbeing Collective<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Festival as a condition to think-with<\/a>, ANTI Festival \/ Marta Keil<\/li>\n

     
    \nReading list<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • What Can We Learn from Tired Institutional Bodies? Some Speculative Exercises for Times of Exhaustion<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Reimagining Care: 200 Questions About Care<\/a>, Rubiane Maia<\/li>\n
  • Whoever is Not Lost Does Not Yet Understand<\/a>, Vania Rodrigues.<\/li>\n

     
    \nBooks<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • Artist at Work<\/a>, Bojana Kunst<\/li>\n
  • Queer Use<\/a>, Sarah Ahmed<\/li>\n
  • The Care Manifesto<\/a>, Andreas Chatzidakis et al.<\/li>\n
  • Rest Is Resistance<\/a>, Tricia Hersey<\/li>\n
  • Pleasure Activism<\/a>, adrienne maree brown<\/li>\n
  • 24\/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep<\/a>, Jonathan Crary<\/li>\n
  • How to Do Nothing<\/a>, Jenny Odell<\/li>\n
  • Saving Time<\/a>, Jenny Odell<\/li>\n

      <\/p>\n

    Bibliography:
    \nAranda, Julieta, Wood, Brian Kuan, Vidokle, Anton, Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art, e-flux books, 2011
    \nBerardi, Franco \u2018Bifo\u2019, The Soul at Work. From Alienation to Autonomy, Semiotext(e), 2009
    \nDietachmair, Philipp, Pascal Gielen, and Nicolau, Georgia (eds.), Sensing Earth: Cultural Quests across a Heated Globe. Antennae – Arts in Society. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2023
    \nHan, Byung-Chul, The Burnout Society, Stanford University Press 2015
    \nHersey, Tricia, Rest is Resistance. A Manifesto, Little, Brown Spark 2022
    \nKunst, Bojana, Artist at Work. Proximity of Art and Capitalism, Zero Books 2015
    \nLorey, Isabell, State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious, Verso Books 2015
    \nRaes, Barbara,     Radiantly burning out and stacking stones<\/a>, 2014,<\/p>\n

    \u201cFestival SPA\u201d is supported by European Union’s programme “Creative Europe” and Ministry of Culture in Latvia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \"\"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \"\"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

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