NSRD: Information About A Transformed Situation
21 November 2024 – 23 February 2025
This exhibition focuses on the constellation of creative collaborations surrounding the Latvian music and art group NSRD (Nebijušu sajūtu restaurēšanas darbnīca/ Workshop for the Restoration of Unfelt Feelings). NSRD was founded in 1982 by the poet and artist Juris Boiko and the architectural theorist Hardijs Lediņš. They were joined by the musicians Inguna Rubene (Černova) and Mārtiņš Rutkis, and, for various artistic projects, the architects Imants Žodžiks and Aigars Sparāns. However, many projects by NSRD involved a much wider circle of participants, and at the same time not all of the collaborative works produced by people close to NSRD can be attributed to the group. In this exhibition we explore the diversity of these creative exchanges that took place between the mid 1970s and 1989 and were united by shared influences and ideas and by their engagement with new forms of culture.
Despite the restrictions of the Soviet time, these extended collaborations explored cutting-edge avant-garde, new wave and postmodern aesthetics. The range of works in the show extends from the literature, poetry and musical recordings that laid the foundations of NSRD’s work in the mid 1970s to new wave music, actions, architectural proposals, postmodern design, discotheques, video performances and “approximate art” in the 1980s.
NSRD and the activities around it are legendary phenomena within the history of Latvian underground and experimental culture, appreciated by generations of readers, spectators and listeners. In the exhibition, the continuity of the legacy of NSRD is reflected in the works of younger artists who either directly reference the work of the group or share its aesthetic affinities and collaborative impulses. Works by Kaspars Groševs, Maija Kurševa, Evita Vasiļjeva, the text group Orbīta (Semyon Khanin, Artūrs Punte, Vladimirs Svetlovs, Sergejs Timofejevs) and the band Alejas (Kirils Ēcis, Spāre Vītola, Reinis Žodžiks) engage with music, poetry, architectural structures and atmospheric environments.
The title, “Information About a Transformed Situation,” is a reference to the NSRD album, an audio play “Kuncendorfs and Osendovskis” (1985) – a tale about longing, loneliness, journeying and transforming encounters and feelings.
Māra Traumane, Māra Žeikare
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