J&K / Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard
in collaboration with Paul Philipp Heinze, Linards Kulless, Christoph Mühlau, Melissa Steckbauer, Magda Tothova and Suse Wächter
Mending and Bending, to Riga with Love
participatory durational performance/happening (stage installation, sound, food, drinks, sensorium, puppets, slide projections, text, objects)
ongoing over 2 days
2016

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eight interstellar travelers /
follow us / back and through /
first day one, then day two /
stones of power / shrines of love /
step out of doubt / breathe in, breath out /
triturations & elixirs / ease, erase /
dine with us / leaving time and space /
maybe no, maybe so / cast a spell / come together /
we, the fabric / open a vortex / we the waves, are transformed /
and maybe again / undo the knots / relieve the tightness we discovered long ago /
thanks to the keen hospitality / of the spirits of the space /
we’ll forget our qualms / discover our grace /
here we are / smiling beside you

Mending and Bending, to Riga with Love took place during the international Latvian Art Festival Survival Kit 8 organized by the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art. The festival’s focus was on “acupuncture of society”, viewing our modern-day society as a body and searching for and locating its most painful points.

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J&K, Heinze, Kulless, Mühlau, Steckbauer, Tothova, Wächter, Mending and Bending, to Riga with Love, performance, Survival Kit 8, Riga, 2016, photos: Atis Jakobsons and Arnis Kalniņš