“Liepāja 2027” is inviting two performance artists from the CreArt Network to participate in the Liepāja AiR residency from June 16th to July 17th, 2025. During their stay, the artists will engage in a diverse cultural program designed to expand their understanding of the city and its surrounding region. The expected outcome of the residency is a community-engaging site-specific performative work. The outcomes of the residency will become part of the “Agora of Values” public program oganized by Liepāja 2027
The “Agora of Values” project is a series of five forums that form the core of the “European Dream” section of the “Liepāja 2027” program. By bringing together prominent experts from Latvia and Europe, the forums will combine contemporary debates on issues important for Latvia, Europe, and the planet, innovative knowledge exchange formats, diverse audience engagement, and artistic elements that will enrich a wide range of discursive events with a comprehensive aesthetic experience.
The first Agora will take place in the year 2025. At the core of the forum’s idea is the widely accepted principle in modern environmental studies that nature and culture must be seen as an inseparable network of relations – natureculture – beyond the entrenched opposition that still exists in our minds, attitudes, and institutions. From the anthropocentric view characteristic of the early modern era, which saw humans as the crown of creation and rightful users of nature, we have arrived at a posthumanist vision of humanity as one species among many.
Nature’s agency, as the core of the forum’s concept, allows for the exploration of a vast array of topics – from renewable energy to plant intelligence – and for articulating scenarios of harmonious and non-hierarchical coexistence between humans, nature, and other species. The discussions of the forum will engage with relevant theoretical perspectives in ecological thinking, such as hydrofeminism, new materialism, agential realism, dark ecology etc.
Performance artists with experience in public participation and engagement projects, and whose work focuses on the following topics and fields: participatory performance art practices informed by a postanthropocentric worldview that stresses non-hierarchical immersion of human beings in the environment.
Artist Residency is offered for 2 artists who are:
The selection criteria will aim to represent the quality and diversity of various forms of performance art. There is no age restriction; however, applicants must have a university-level degree in an artistic field or demonstrate equivalent expertise through their artistic career.
The Organizer (Liepāja 2027) will provide:
In a single PDF document:
Application documentation must be submitted via the artists’ platform on the network’s website: creart2-eu.org/open-calls
Selection Committee: Baiba Bartkeviča, Anna Priedola, Igors Gubenko, Tīna Pētersone
The Committee is not obliged to justify the selection decision.
The contact person for all questions is Sabīne Jermaloviča, Sabine.jermalovica@liepaja2027.lv, www.liepaja2027.lv
On 11 April, Liepāja 2027 will take to the stage at Tallinn Music Week 2026’s City Stage to present the concept of Liepāja – European Capital of Culture 2027: (un)rest.
With this open call for artists to participate in the exhibition and symposium, the association “ASTE. Art, Science, Technology, Education” launches the project “ElektrON – The Future of Amber”, interpreting the heritage of amber—along with the future potential of other fossil materials—through a symbiosis of art and science, within the programme “Liepāja – European Capital of Culture 2027”. Applications to participate in the project can be submitted by 23:59 on 19 April.
On July2, experimental music festival Skaņu Mežs will hold an exclusive mini-edition in the city of Liepāja, featuring musical acts and sound artists from Latvia, Japan, Norway, United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany.