{"id":6525,"date":"2022-01-24T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kim.lv\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:53:59","slug":"online-exhibition-vagabond-place-hard-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/online-exhibition-vagabond-place-hard-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Online: exhibition VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Kim? Contemporary Art Centre is proud to announce the launch of an online exhibition VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/\">https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Artists: <strong>Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis, Elza S\u012ble, The John Hejduk Archive<\/strong><br \/>\nCurators: <strong>Zane Onckule, Jo-ey Tang<\/strong><br \/>\nArchitect: <strong>Juris Strangots<\/strong><br \/>\nSound: <strong>Joe Namy<\/strong><br \/>\nVoiced by: <strong>Amira Ghazalla<\/strong><br \/>\nSung by: <strong>Alya Al-Sultani<\/strong><br \/>\nWeb design: <strong>Shadow Brand\u00ae<\/strong><br \/>\nVideo montage: <strong>Ieva Kraule-K\u016bna<\/strong><br \/>\nExecutive Director:<strong> El\u012bna Dr\u0101ke<\/strong><br \/>\nProject Manager: <strong>Evita Goze<\/strong><br \/>\nArchival drawings: <strong>John Hejduk fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture <\/strong><br \/>\nProduced by: <strong>Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI did not know that there was a gulf of Riga \/<br \/>\nRiga was always hard to place \/<br \/>\nA place to build a new town.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nJohn Hejduk<\/p>\n<p>VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ is an online \u201cspeculative\u201d proposal-exhibition conceived in collaboration with artists Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis, Elza S\u012ble, and Joe Namy, as well as co-curators Zane Onckule and Jo-ey Tang, and architect Juris Strangots. Absorbing the heightened anxiety of the present, the project deploys a poetic and utopian imagination towards the creation of an intermingled media land-scape\u2014a digitally-conceived exhibition featuring a newly commissioned score, writing, CGI animation, and a website. The project emerges as a vision and as a compass, from private imagination, to the collecti-ve conscience of the digital, and back to an activation in physical space.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adopting American architect John Hejduk&#8217;s (1929-2000) belief that during an existential crisis, time has the tendency to \u201ccollapse into space,\u201d VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ strategically utili-zes the spatiality offered by a digital environment in order to seek a novel form of empathy. As a speculati-ve endeavour, the project works towards a future which considers the re-evaluation of our individual and collective alienation alongside our shared physical and mental limitations and boundaries. Expanding Hej-duk&#8217;s legacy of imaginative architectural thought, VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ is con-ceived as a sculptural-architectural vagabond-agent of our current social, political, psychological realities.<\/p>\n<p>VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ was initially conceived as a proposal for a physical exhibition &#8211; The Latvian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. While unrealized, the project has morphed, developed and found its way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, online.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In spring of 2022, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of John Hejduk\u2019s The Riga Project (1987), the structures of Subject and Object are set to be re-fabricated in its full-scale and installed in Riga\u2019s urban environment. Organized in collaboration with the RISEBA Architecture and Media Centre, the installation incorporates notes, designs, and sketches from Hejduk\u2019s archive. Marking the occasion, a reprint of John Hejduk\u2019s \u201cThe Riga Project\u201d (1987) will be accompanied by a translation in Latvian.<br \/>\n<strong>Further information:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/\">https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Supporters:<\/strong> Kult\u016brelpa, VKKF, Kult\u016bras ministrija, R\u012bgas dome<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners:<\/strong> Nodibin\u0101jums ARHITEKSTI, Biznesa, m\u0101kslas un tehnolo\u0123iju universit\u0101tes &#8220;RISEBA&#8221; Arhitekt\u016bras un dizaina fakult\u0101te (FAD)<strong>Kim? Contemporary Art Centre is proud to announce the launch of an online exhibition VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/\">https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Artists: <strong>Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis, Elza S\u012ble, The John Hejduk Archive<\/strong><br \/>\nCurators: <strong>Zane Onckule, Jo-ey Tang<\/strong><br \/>\nArchitect: <strong>Juris Strangots<\/strong><br \/>\nSound: <strong>Joe Namy<\/strong><br \/>\nVoiced by: <strong>Amira Ghazalla<\/strong><br \/>\nSung by: <strong>Alya Al-Sultani<\/strong><br \/>\nWeb design: <strong>Shadow Brand\u00ae<\/strong><br \/>\nVideo montage: <strong>Ieva Kraule-K\u016bna<\/strong><br \/>\nExecutive Director:<strong> El\u012bna Dr\u0101ke<\/strong><br \/>\nProject Manager: <strong>Evita Goze<\/strong><br \/>\nArchival drawings: <strong>John Hejduk fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture <\/strong><br \/>\nProduced by: <strong>Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI did not know that there was a gulf of Riga \/<br \/>\nRiga was always hard to place \/<br \/>\nA place to build a new town.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nJohn Hejduk<\/p>\n<p>VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ is an online \u201cspeculative\u201d proposal-exhibition conceived in collaboration with artists Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis, Elza S\u012ble, and Joe Namy, as well as co-curators Zane Onckule and Jo-ey Tang, and architect Juris Strangots. Absorbing the heightened anxiety of the present, the project deploys a poetic and utopian imagination towards the creation of an intermingled media land-scape\u2014a digitally-conceived exhibition featuring a newly commissioned score, writing, CGI animation, and a website. The project emerges as a vision and as a compass, from private imagination, to the collecti-ve conscience of the digital, and back to an activation in physical space.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adopting American architect John Hejduk&#8217;s (1929-2000) belief that during an existential crisis, time has the tendency to \u201ccollapse into space,\u201d VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ strategically utili-zes the spatiality offered by a digital environment in order to seek a novel form of empathy. As a speculati-ve endeavour, the project works towards a future which considers the re-evaluation of our individual and collective alienation alongside our shared physical and mental limitations and boundaries. Expanding Hej-duk&#8217;s legacy of imaginative architectural thought, VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ is con-ceived as a sculptural-architectural vagabond-agent of our current social, political, psychological realities.<\/p>\n<p>VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ was initially conceived as a proposal for a physical exhibition &#8211; The Latvian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. While unrealized, the project has morphed, developed and found its way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, online.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In spring of 2022, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of John Hejduk\u2019s The Riga Project (1987), the structures of Subject and Object are set to be re-fabricated in its full-scale and installed in Riga\u2019s urban environment. Organized in collaboration with the RISEBA Architecture and Media Centre, the installation incorporates notes, designs, and sketches from Hejduk\u2019s archive. Marking the occasion, a reprint of John Hejduk\u2019s \u201cThe Riga Project\u201d (1987) will be accompanied by a translation in Latvian.<br \/>\n<strong>Further information:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/\">https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Supporters:<\/strong> Kult\u016brelpa, VKKF, Kult\u016bras ministrija, R\u012bgas dome<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners:<\/strong> Nodibin\u0101jums ARHITEKSTI, Biznesa, m\u0101kslas un tehnolo\u0123iju universit\u0101tes &#8220;RISEBA&#8221; Arhitekt\u016bras un dizaina fakult\u0101te (FAD)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim? Contemporary Art Centre is proud to announce the launch of an online exhibition VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ on https:\/\/www.vagabondplacehardtoplace.net\/. &nbsp; Artists: Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis, Elza S\u012ble, The John Hejduk Archive Curators: Zane Onckule, Jo-ey Tang Architect: Juris Strangots Sound: Joe Namy Voiced by: Amira Ghazalla Sung by: Alya Al-Sultani Web design: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-past-events","category-kim-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Online: exhibition VAGABOND \\ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE \/ - Kim? 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