On the Valmiera train station<\/strong>, a meeting place for the inhabitants and guests of the city, the neon sign “m\u0113s tie\u0161i t\u0101p\u0113c satik\u0101mies \/ that\u2019s why we met” by Inta Balode<\/strong>.<\/p>\n On the railings of the Valmiera bypass crossing bridge in Paula Valdena street,<\/strong> the sign \u201ck\u0101 iem\u0101c\u012bties nemest \u0113nu? \/ how to learn not to cast a shadow?\u201d by Kirils \u0112cis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Near the Dzirnavu lake<\/strong>, a beloved walking trail for the locals, the artwork “M\u012a\u013b\u0100 SIRDS \/ DEAR HEART” by Santa Remere<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Next to the Gauja river<\/strong>, which symbolically connects the two parts of Valmiera, is the neon \u201cmums ir kaut kas kop\u012bgs \/ we have something in common\u201d by J\u0101nis Balodis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Etchells\u2019 neon and LED pieces often draw on his broader fascinations as an artist, writer and performance maker, exploring contradictory aspects of language \u2013 the speed, clarity and vividness with which it communicates narrative, image and ideas, and at the same time its amazing propensity to create a rich field of uncertainty and ambiguity. Through simple phrases spelt out in neon, LED and other media, Etchells strives to create miniature narratives, moments of confusion, awkwardness, reflection and intimacy in public and gallery settings. Encountering the neon sign works, in the streets of a city or in the space of a white cube gallery, the viewer becomes implicated in a situation that\u2019s not fully revealed, or a linguistic formulation that generates confusion or ambiguity. As often in Etchells\u2019 work, in the neons the missing parts of the picture are as important as the elements that are present. Invoking a story, or projecting an idea out-of-context, the work invites us in, but into what exactly we can\u2019t be sure.<\/p>\n This summer publicist Santa Remere, theatre maker J\u0101nis Balodis, author of dance texts Inta Balode and poet Kirils \u0112cis took part in text making workshops led by Tim Etchells, in which they reflected on important topics and values in modern society by transforming text and language itself, freeing it from theatrical layers, showing words: their sounds, meanings and unknown word strings.<\/p>\n From August till October the neon signs were presented in Riga<\/a>, in November three of the five pieces travelled to different regions of Latvia<\/a> \u2013 Tukums, Aizpute and R\u0113zekne, but now four of the artworks have travelled to Valmiera.<\/p>\n In 2021 the project \u201cWritten in Neon. Latvia\u201d was funded by State Culture Capital Foundation programme \u201cKult\u016brelpa\u201d and Riga City Council.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Theatre Institute of Latvia in collaboration with internationally renowned theatre director, dramaturg and visual artist Tim Etchells and four artists from Latvia \u2013 Santa Remere, J\u0101nis Balodis, Kirils \u0112cis and Inta Balode \u2013 invite guests and inhabitants of Valmiera to go on expeditions and enjoy these urban installations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arhivets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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