Seven Thursdays: Miks Mitrēvics and Kristīne Kursiša - A conversation between two

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kim? Contemporary Art Centre invites you to the opening of the issue of 333 copies Seven Thursdays by Miks Mitrēvics andKristīne Kursiša on March 20 at 7 pm in kim? Contemporary Art Centre, 1st floor.

KK:
I will never forget the call I received on August 13, 2012 at
1:01 a.m. I was trying to fall asleep when the phone rang, but
there was no sound on the other end of the line. The fifteenth
day of your silence had ended; you called me, but you couldn’t
speak. You told me a while ago that, while being on the island,
you experienced a paranoia anxiety as you feared that you might
never speak again.

MM:
After the seventh day or so, it started to seem that my vocal
chords had atrophied thus I would not be able to speak again. I
remember that it was the only occasion when I made a quiet sound
to myself, only to make sure I am still capable of doing
something like that.

KK:
Did you manage to accomplish every one of the points of your
manifesto? What did you gain after this experience, what were
your conclusions and revelations after the project?

MM:
I haven’t really analyzed anything, but I think that mostly –
yes. In fact, I already knew it before that you need not to go to
any island to change something; having the commitment itself is
enough. Giving up something often means the opposite – obtaining
the time and space in order to create something new.

– an excerpt from the conversation

Publication“The effect always appears in the spot, which can effectively be called empty,” Miks could have written, while on a desolated island in Norway. Exile and loneliness doesn’t do much for aptitude, but as an atmospheric quality it warms any new or refreshed resolution. This is an introduction to what was begun on a Thursday in a clean, empty exhibition space in Riga. “Any resolution is a new beginning,” we decided, marking out the first 6 crosses in the lottery ticket of 44 proposed works. A lottery of the next Thursday’s exhibition followed. Thus we met and chose, drew and predicted six times. We got it all, whatever was needed. An exhibition – poetic and free, a clarity built within the complex. Miks and Kristīne once again were as two and one, after each draw closing the gallery and working out of sight until the next round. “Nice to see you..”, they resigned to pursue their paper, pantones, pomelos. This lottery had no formula and the chance was once more was released into freeflow.

Seven Thursdays, an exhibition by Miks Mitrēvics and Kristīne Kursiša took place in kim? Contemporary Art Centre from November 29, 2012 to January 10, 2012. Within the exhibition, six lotteries were carried out and six variable expositions were displayed to the public for six Thursdays. As the result of the Seven Thursdays, 26 out of the 44 work designs, proposed by the authors, were implemented. The choice of the audience was to emphatically mark works No. 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 13.

Seven Thursdays
Miks Mitrēvics & Kristīne Kursiša
Translated by: Viesturs Celmiņš, Maija Veide
Proofreading: Viesturs Celmins, Anna Iltnere, Nadezda Kotikova,
Laima Rudusa, Dmitrijs Sumarokovs
Design: Kristīne Kursiša
Publisher: kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Riga, 2014

Miks Mitrēvics (born 1980) works in the field of photography, video and multimedia installations, takes part in international exhibitions since 2003. Recent solo-exhibitions: Let me google that for you (with K.Kursiša), Galerie VidalCuglieda in Brussels (2013) and Netwerk Contemporary Art Centre in Aalst (2014), Belgium; Septiņas ceturtdienas/ Seven Thursdays (2012), kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia (with K.Kursiša); Let’s go for a walk? I don’t know. It’s already late. Okay, just around a lake (2011), Contemporary Art Centre in Zagreb, Croatia; Noise in the corridor it’s 5:23′ and I know it’s the postman bringing the letters (2011), Galerie VidalCuglietta In Brussels, Belgium; Fragile Nature (2011), Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kunsteverein in Lubeck, Germany. Miks Mitrevics has received the annual newspaper Diena Culture Award in 2006, obtained Swedbank Art Award and was nominated for the Purvitis Prize in 2008; he represented Latvia in 53rd International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale. Since 2010, Miks Mitrēvics is based in Brussels, Belgium.

Kristīne Kursiša (born 1979) works in the field of video, film directing and multimedia installations, takes part in international exhibitions since 2003. Recent solo-exhibitions: Let me google that for you (with M. Mitrēvics), Galerie VidalCuglieda in Brussels (2013) and Netwerk Contemporary Art Centre in Aalst (2014), Belgium; Septiņas ceturtdienas/ Seven Thursdays (2012), kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia (with M. Mitrēvics); Personālizstāde/Solo-exhibition (2012), kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia; Carethings (2009), Riga Art Space in Riga, Latvia (with M. Mitrēvics); Ārpus kontroles/ Out of Control (2009), gallery ALMA in Riga, Latvia. In 2011, Kristīne Kursiša was nominated for the Purvitis Prize, in 2009 – for the annual newspaper Diena Culture Award. Since 2010, she is a Film-directing student in Moscow, Russia.

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