This performance is an invitation to step into an open framework of collective research and improvisation, in an attempt to allow the past to take place on an 8000-year-thick peatland. A memory rave, a ghostly gathering, a celebration and mourning, multispecies friendships and a personal quest. Timekeepers, the forgetful, the lost and everyone in and outside of time are welcome!

ABOUT ARTIST
Linda Boļšakova’s interdisciplinary works focus mainly on installation and performance. Through these mediums, she explores the interconnectedness and fragility of the borders between humans, surrounding environments, especially plant life, and recently also the geologic and deep time beings.Her practice is ecological in that it deals with the relations between beings and their physical surroundings. Co-creating is an important conceptual and practical pivot point in Boļšakova’s practice. She has collaborated with composers, botanists, 3D artists, breakdancers, various orchid species, biotope experts, beatboxers and web developers.Boļšakova’s works are located at The National Botanic Garden of Latvia and Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanic Garden in Istanbul. Solo shows include “Intimacy of strangers” at ISSP Gallery and “Off spring” at Alma Gallery. She has participated in group shows at the Latvian National Museum of Art, a public performance program at Kunsthalle Bratislava and Sculpture Quadrennial Riga, as well as numerous other solo and group exhibitions in Scotland, Turkey, Slovakia, Greece and Latvia.She has taken part in residencies including the Nida Art Colony, Lithuania, the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Zengården, the head temple of the Swedish Zen Buddhist Society, as well as the VV Foundation’s residency, Latvia, and Hybrida Sweden.

CAST
Ceoncept, performance: Linda Boļšakova
Composer: Līva Blūma
Vocal performance: Arvis Kantiševs, Ilona Dzērve, Lauma MalnaceThe performance is part of EU Creative Europe project The Big Green residency Nature as inspiration