RIBOCA Public Program

In addition to the five month-long exhibitions, the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) featured a public program encompassing performances, talks, debates, workshops, and other events that took place from the end of January until November 2018.
The public program of RIBOCA, curated by “Kolektīvs”, was set to expand the contact surface between artistic practices, curatorial work, and audiences, aiming to initiate encounters, both anticipated and unexpected. For the first edition of RIBOCA, its public program focused on establishing relationships with the city, inviting Rigans and local and international contemporary art communities to interact, testing what knowledge can be shared and what interactions ingrained.
A series of discussions and debates allowed us to explore further themes of the biennial: the present of the human and the non-human, acceleration, technologies and flows of information, the speed of change and our ability to adapt. In addition to their discursive counterparts, a series of events focusing on movement and bodily involvement invited people to experience artistic production on different physiological levels.
The Public program hosted 69 events during RIBOCA’s first edition. It was created in collaboration with local partners – Latvian Center of Contemporary Art, kim? Contemporary Art Center, Kaņepes Cultural Center, International Design Summer School MAD, with artists, writers, researchers, and theoreticians, among them sound artists Francesco Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage, poet and artist Agnese Krivade, musician Korhan Erel, art theoretician Ieva Astahovska, writer Pauls Bankovskis, cultural theoretician Kaspars Vanags, DJ Elvis Zants, composer Platon Buravicki and others.

ClientRIBOCALinkwww.rigabiennial.comCuratorsZane Zajančkauska, Ilze Kalnbērziņa-PrāProducersAgnese Pundiņa, Aleksejs BeļeckisYear2018