An extensive event program at kim? (Spīķeri, Maskavas street 12/k1) will be the opening of a new event topic BLOGS, with a series of various events ongoing until November 1st.
A blog is most often a site where the personal becomes public. The thoughts, memories and opinions of the blogger become open to others. It is a window to the private space of the writer, and he/she can choose to expose whatever he/she wishes. There are no limitations of form or content, no censorship or other conditions dictated from the outside. There is only free space where the only supervisor is self-censorship and the emotional and intellectual barriers of the writer.
Now, how fertile exactly is this environment? Does the lack of limitations allow expressing what has been held back before, saying something new and meaningful? Or does this lack of limitations turn out to be the greatest cage of all, binding fast and not allowing to see past clichés? Is blogging/memoir a new text genre, a new and long-lasting phenomenon, or just a new name for something well-known? There are a lot of questions.
The opening of blog-themed events will be celebrated with exciting activities all over the Spīķeri block, brought to you by kim? together with META-KAFE. The evening program will commence with Mārtiņš Ratniks’ solo exhibition at VKN gallery and Jānis Garančs’ solo exhibition at RIXC gallery. After the exhibition openings everyone is invited to the international short film network Future Shorts autumn selection, art video marathon and artist disco night all night long. The absolute hit of the night will be the interactive performance VR URBAN by German artists Christian Zöllner and Patrick Tobias Fischer. It will take place in the Spīķeri backyard and involve everyone – families with children, artists, young people and simple passers-by. Everyone will be given a visually and substantially splendid opportunity to interfere with the urban sign language by blogging with the weapon of digital text – be it gentle or painfully shrewd.
http://www.kim.lv
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