electronic text + textiles project
Riga
Latvia
- Duration: A week to several months.
- Founded:
- Discipline: Curating/Research, Literature, Media Art, Printmaking, Textile
- Targetgroup: International, National
Description
This residency is based in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It welcomes artists, designers, writers, researchers and theoreticians working within or across the fields of literature and the arts, in particular textiles related. The Electronic Text and Textiles Project encourages Residents, through a mix of conceptual investigations and material productions, to join in a decades-long project among writers and artists involved in the Alt-X and ebr network. This group has been working consistently, not just to replace one technology with another in literary and arts practices, but to give direction and cultural context to technological change and the electronic disturbance.
Accommodation Information
In the apartment, Residents have use of a spacious office/studio area, 2 writing desks, an HP laptop (Windows; Adobe; DSL Internet access); a telephone allowing internationally direct dialling; a dining table seating six; and a bookshelf featuring publications by past Residents. There is good lighting throughout the apartment and lamps over tables, divans, and workspaces, a full kitchen, bathroom, and a separate living/bedroom.
Paid by artist
Residents pay 50 Euro per day per apartment/studio, all bills included (except telephone bill). If selected for the residency Electronic Text and Textiles Project Residents have to secure their own funding for their travel, subsistence, and materials.
Location
The apartment is a five minute walk from buses and trams, which run regularly at all hours and normally reach the Old City in five or ten minutes. The walk to the Old City is between 20 and 30 minutes, and it takes just 10 minutes to reach the famed row of Jugenstil houses on Alberta Street.
Deadline
2 months before the start of the expected Residency
Application address
Latvia
E-mail
info@e-text-textiles.lv
www.e-text-textiles.lv/indexeng.htm
