Foto

RIBOCA2 announces programming for online series of talks and conversations

Arterritory.com

14.05.2020

The 2nd edition of Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2), and suddenly it all blossoms, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, invites you to join its online series of talks and conversations, imagined with associate curator of public programmes Sofia Lemos.

An online series of talks and conversations starting 21 May 2020.

Image by The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger / Collaboratoires MB. Courtesy of Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art

Unfolding across the duration of the Biennial, the weekly programme of online talks and conversations, workshops and activities expands on a glossary of words that inspired  RIBOCA2: Endings, Nature, Love, Ruins, Healing, Magic, Cosmos, Underground, Care, Dreams, Dance, Imagination, Human, Wildness, Ghosts, Metamorphosis, Voices, Fictions and Futures. Each word prompts the week’s events and is a tool for building alternative imaginaries that acknowledge diverse ways of being, thinking and doing.

The series of talks and conversations brings together outstanding thinkers, researchers, and writers from various fields. They include physicist and queer theorist Karen Barad, anthropologist Marisol de la Cadena, philosophers Federico Campagna and Emanuele Coccia, poet CAConrad, sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, philosopher Vinciane Despret, anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,  sociologist and writer Avery F. Gordon, art historian Boris Groys, queer theorist Jack Halberstam, researcher Marina Simakova, artists Anton Vidokle and Arseny Zhilyaev from the Institute of the Cosmos, performance studies scholar André Lepecki, feminist writer and geographer Sophie Lewis, philosopher Michael Marder, environmental humanities and feminist thinker Astrida Neimanis, anthropologist Tobias Rees, artist Nikolay Smirnov with scholar Birgit Menzel, and prison-abolitionist and poet Jackie Wang with mathematician Alexander Moll.

For a full list of events, dates, participant biographies and thematic detailed descriptions, please visit the public programme section of the RIBOCA website here

* RIBOCA2 was due to take place from 16 May – 11 October 2020. It will transform into a movie presenting a dialogue between finished, unfinished, and absent works, shot on a film-set in the Tarkovskian settings of Andrejsala, a former industrial port. The set will be open to the public for if conditions allow.

Related articles

RIBOCA suspends 2023 edition

visual arts — Topical, Q&A — 10.07.2023.

***

Words for Worlds

visual arts — Interviews — 22.10.2020.

A Conversation Between Sofia Lemos and Vents Vīnbergs

Roughness versus well-thought-out ideas

architecture, design & fashion — Interviews — 03.09.2020.

An interview with Roland Reemaa, one of the RIBOCA2 leading architects

By the Hawthorn Where the Haunted Huddle

visual arts — Events — 25.08.2020.

About the American Sociologist, Avery Gordon

Not a Better World, Just a Different One

visual arts — Events — 18.08.2020.

On Jack Halberstam, one of today's most prominent gender and queer theorists

RIBOCA2 and suddenly it all blossoms from 20 August till 13 September

visual arts — Events — 30.07.2020.

At the Andrejsala industrial port area in Riga

Water is a Bottomless Subject

visual arts — Events — 14.07.2020.

On the feminist and scholar Astrida Neimanis

Cosmism is a lesson, we just don’t yet know what kind

visual arts — Events — 30.06.2020.

About cosmism movement

What does a Shaman, a Wizard or Metaphysician Have to Say to a Teenager

visual arts — Events — 23.06.2020.

About an Italian philosopher Federico Campagna

Southern Shoots on Northern Ruins

visual arts — Events — 09.06.2020.

About the Portuguese sociologist and legal scholar Boaventura de Sousa Santos

RIBOCA2 is embarking on a collaborative project with Arterritory.com

visual arts — Events — 21.05.2020.

Speakers of the RIBOCA2 public programmes

Chants of pleasure and wonder

visual arts — Interviews — 30.08.2019.

Interview with the chief curator of RIBOCA2 Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel

A laboratory of meanings and feelings

visual arts — Interviews — 12.05.2023.

A conversation with the team behind the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art

Find Your Hacker Within

visual arts — Events — 22.09.2020.

About the culture and media scholar McKenzie Wark

A Strange Universal Orgy

visual arts — Events — 02.09.2020.

About the Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia

Seismograph of reality

visual arts — On Site — 21.08.2020.

The second Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art has opened

Voices From other Worlds

visual arts — Events — 11.08.2020.

On the Peruvian Anthropologist Professor Marisol de la Cadena, University of California (Davis)

Let’s Dance in the Dark With no Choreography!

visual arts — Events — 28.07.2020.

On André Lepecki – Curator, Performing Arts Academic, and New York University Professor

Happy maths

visual arts — Interviews — 09.07.2020.

An interview with mathematician and artist Daina Taimiņa

Reconnecting to the vegetal mindfulness in us

visual arts — Interviews — 25.06.2020.

An interview with philosopher Michael Marder

RIBOCA2 announces new public opening dates

visual arts — Events — 18.06.2020.

New details on its new exhibition / feature movie film-set project

It is hard not to love a woman on strike

visual arts — Events — 01.06.2020.

About Sophie Lewis, a feminist theorist and culture critic

The Best Rituals Are When The Unexpected Inserts Itself

visual arts — Events — 18.05.2020.

About the American queer poet CAConrad

RIBOCA2 «and suddenly it all blossoms» transformed into a feature film

visual arts — Topical, Q&A — 13.09.2021.

Premiere across six cities from September 2021

The creation and admiration of beauty is not the sole preserve of humans

visual arts — Events — 16.09.2020.

About the Belgian Philosopher and Ethologist Vinciane Despret

Compulsory Blessing

visual arts — Reviews — 01.09.2020.

A Rigans' impressions of the 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art – RIBOCA2

I am absolutely happy with this honesty

visual arts — Interviews — 19.08.2020.

An interview with the curator of the 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel

Research as, a Labour of love

visual arts — Events — 04.08.2020.

About the British anthropologist, Tim Ingold’s, work

Time Has Been Stolen, but we Can Get it Back

visual arts — Events — 21.07.2020.

About the poet and Afro-American culture scholar, Jackie Wang

Spiritual Dissent, or, Giving the Finger Unseen

visual arts — Events — 07.07.2020.

On Marginal Spirituality in the Soviet and Post-soviet Space

Reconnecting to the vegetal mindfulness in us

spiriterritory by arterritory — 25.06.2020.

An interview with philosopher Michael Marder

Plants Know About Us, but we Don’t Know about Them Yet

visual arts — Events — 16.06.2020.

About the philosopher Michael Marder

Man at the Centre of Everything (has Failed)

visual arts — Events — 25.05.2020.

About the German-American anthropologist Tobias Rees

RIBOCA2 announces its participants list

visual arts — Articles — 10.12.2019.

RIBOCA2 announces its participants list