Gundega Laiviņa

Gundega Laiviņa is a former director of New Theatre Institute of Latvia, a project-based organization working in the field of contemporary performing arts, and Homo Novus, International Festival of Contemporary Theatre. From 2010 to 2014, Gundega was a member of the artistic board and curatorial team of Riga – European Capital of Culture 2014, where she was specifically responsible for city-specific initiatives and projects involving communities. As a curator, she has also worked on several Latvian national entries at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and at a Latvian national exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 16th International Architecture Exhibition. Since 2016 Gundega regularly gives talks on curating and producing in contemporary theatre; she is a lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia and at the Latvian Culture Academy. Gundega has studied music, culture, and social anthropology, and she has received several European level diplomas and certificates in cultural policy studies and arts management. Currently she studies Urban Placemaking at Pratt Institute Brooklyn.

Submissions

The Flowers of Manshiyat Naser

Under El Sisi, where every inch of the city is controlled by the army, censorship spreads like a plague, and the possibility of any form of creative expression in the public space – especially graffiti, which was an extremely important medium during the revolution – is close to nil. And so the appearance of a work of street art on such a gigantic scale is phenomenal.