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Latvian stage design will be present at the section of countries and regions and student section of the 14th edition of Prague Quadrennial taking place on 6-16 June 2019, inviting the international audience to discover the latest developments in Latvian scenography. Authors of the Latvian exposition at the section of countries and regions are young theatre and visual artists Krista and Reinis Dzudzilo whose work in theatre is characterised by the purity of space and clarity of the idea. The student exhibition “Young and Wagner” created by students of the Department of Stage Design at the Art Academy of Latvia will reflect the study process and the moment when student becomes a young artist. Both exhibitions follow the leitmotiv of this year’s Quadrennial dealing with memory, imagination and transformation, and are inspired by the time German composer Richard Wagner spent in Riga working on the principles of his ideal theatre, later fully realised in Bayreuth.\u00a0Is there anything new about Wagner we could highlight or present the Quadrennial viewers with? What unites such different scales: that of the student or the young artists with that of the great Wagner?<\/p>\n
The immersive installation ZRwhdZ created especially for Prague Quadrennial by Krista and Reinis Dzudzilo is inspired by the famous quote from Wagner\u2019s latest opera Parsifal – Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit or Here Time Becomes the Space, and considers space as a present moment when a new world is being born and is dying, the beginning and the end merging into one. Together with composer Krists Auznieks and maker of musical instruments Aleksandrs Maijers, in ZRwhdZ they explore the structural principles of Wagner\u2019s ideal theatre where sound rises from beneath the feet and travels up to the vocal chords of the singer. It’s an invitation to experience the power of sound to transfix the body.<\/p>\n
The students of the Department of Stage Design have worked on Wagner’s opera “The Flying Dutchman” this year. Their exhibition “Young and Wagner” showcases the results of the study process and focuses on\u00a0work of art, its author, and the turmoil of their private life.\u00a0<\/span>When Wagner was fleeing Riga the composer\u2019s ship got into a storm on the Baltic sea, and this emotional experience would later inspire him to write \u201cThe Flying Dutchman\u201d.\u00a0The head of the department, professor M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Kalseris says, \u201cWe, the witnesses of the first stage of this successful story, salute you, Wagnerists of the world. “The man you know as the great Wagner used to live and work here, in Riga, before he fled, left without paying,” we howl through the eternal storm that divorces us from the fame of Wagner\u2019s later life after the escape and survival. For me, the fateful storm overwhelmingly tends to symbolize the birth of a genius, which in turn makes Riga, the city this side of the Baltic sea, into a dark and mythical womb. We wave hello to you from the darkness of this pitch-black cave, rejoicing in the unique role Riga had played in Wagner\u2019s fate, hoping to surprise Wagnerists of the world, provided they can still hear us through the storm. Because the storm Wagner luckily survived is still raging on, as it will forever, and the only way to bridge the sea is to stage \u201cThe Flying Dutchman\u201d and to seek for new design solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n Curator of ZRwhdZ: Gundega Laivi\u0146a Picture from publicity materials of “Young and Wagner”<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Latvian artists Krista and Reinis Dzudzilo and students of the Department of Stage Design at the Art Academy of Latvia bring new work to the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatre.kondrats.dev\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCurators of Young and Wagner: Andris Freibergs and Monika Pormale, exhibition design by Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Elviks
\nProduction: Sandra Lapkovska and\u00a0Klinta Harju, New Theatre Institute of Latvia
\nTechnical realisation: Dekor\u0101ciju darbn\u012bca
\nSupported by State Culture Capital Foundation, Ministry of Culture of Latvia, Art Academy of Latvia, Latvian Embassy in Prague, transport and logistics company SIA Airos,\u00a0Art and technology quarter Sporta 2<\/p>\n