SPLINTERED REALITIES 

Exhibition

August 25 – October 16, 2022

kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia

Festival webpage: https://festival2022.rixc.org/

The exhibition is an intent to play at the “splinters'' of our contemporary condition, affected moreover by an ongoing war, post pandemics, media ubiquity and social division. It features the artworks by international artists who explore transformative potential of art and extended reality, and ground their 'realism' position in the perspective of 'naturecultures' – in the spirit of Guattari's ecosophy, Latour's 'terrestrial coexistence', and Haraway's 'arts of living on a damaged planet'…

Curators: Raitis SMITS, Rasa SMITE

Artists: Debbie DING / DBBD.SG (SG), Jacob KIRKEGAARD (DK), Mario KLINGEMANN (DE), Hayoun KWON (KR), Memo Akten (TR), Laurent MIGNONNEAU & Christa SOMMERER (AT), Alvis MISJUNS (LV), Jurģis PETERS (LV), Sahej RAHAL (IN), Allison STEWART (US), Sabīne ŠNĒ (LV), Theo TRIANTAFYLLIDIS (GR/US).

On-site Exhibitions in kim? and RIXC gallery has a free entrance.
Guided Tours for school groups can be booked for no charge via e-mail rixc@rixc.org

Producers and Contact:
The Festival is Produced by The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.
Festival curators: Rasa Smite (rasa@rixc.org) and Raitis Smits (raitis@rixc.org)
Festival producer: Agnese Baranova (agnese@rixc.org)
PR and information coordinator: Liva Silina (rixc@rixc.org)
Contact e-mail: rixc@rixc.org
Phones: +371 29635167 (Agnese Baranova), +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)
Address: RIXC the Centre for New Media Culture, Lencu iela 2, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia

Partners:
The SPLINTERED REALITIES Festival and Conference partners are: NAIA/Karlsruhe, MPLab/Liepaja, FeLT/Oslo.

Support:

The festival is supported by Riga City Council, State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Goethe-Institut Riga, LG Electronics.

Informative support:

Arterritory, Echo Gone Wrong, Satori, We Make Money Not Art, Diena.