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  1. DUST RIGA

    a catalog of fine particles of the city

  2. DUST RIGA follows the daily trajectories of the smallest solid particles in the city, revealing the relationship between the city dweller and the air as a relentless process in which people, things, places and time are merged.

     

    DUST RIGA is the ash, sand and salt, inhale and exhale, traffic jam and wind direction, soot, smoke and pollen of the city, the daily rhythm of life and the neighborhood – cloud-like structures that rise and fall, connecting the visible city to its ever-changing counterpart in the air.

     

    DUST RIGA is a fluctuation of tiny particles captured in the city’s elusive airscape, inviting the listener to be here and there, far away and close by – suddenly, simultaneously and in between.

  3. photo: Andrejs Strokins
    photo: Andrejs Strokins
    photo: Andrejs Strokins
    photo: Andrejs Strokins
    photo: Andrejs Strokins
    photo: Andrejs Strokins
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    concept, director, performer: Artūrs Čukurs
    sound artist: Andrejs Poikāns
    text editor: Marija Luīze Meļķe
    dramaturge: Linda Krūmiņa
    assistant director: Aljoša Lovrić Krapež
    producer: Ieva Briede, New Theatre Institute of Latvia 

     

    premiere: 29/08/2024 @ International Festival of Contemporary Theatre HOMO NOVUS 2024, Riga, Latvia

     

    >> DUST RIGA @ homonovus.lv

  4. the performance is a part of EU Creative Europe project The Big Green residency ‘Nature as inspiration’. created with financial support from the Society Integration Fund from the Latvian state budget allocated by the Ministry of Culture and co-financing from the Ministry of Culture.

    research done in collaboration with Alise Pizika (Advisor to the Executive Director of Riga City Council on climate neutrality issues), Dana Misiņa (acupuncturist), Vita Štelce (Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, Head of Air and Climate Department), Iveta Indriksone (Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, Head of Monitoring Department), Liene Ābele (Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, Head of Information and Analysis Department), Evita Vītola (Chief Specialist – Expert of the Housing and Environment Department and the Environmental Monitoring Division of the Riga City Municipality) un Tomass Kampmanis (Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, Air pollutant dispersion modeler).