October 16–18, 2025, Riga, Latvia
Resonances of Nature project premieres in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Riga and French Institute in Latvia
Art Academy of Latvia
Marylou Sharrock. Maison (Home), 2024–ongoing.
Resonances of Nature is a new international collaboration project launched in 2025 by RIXC (Latvia), the Goethe-Institut in Riga, and the French Institute in Latvia, with support from the Franco-German Cultural Fund.
The project brings together artists from Latvia, France, and Germany to explore the fragility of our environment through multisensory artworks, especially in the fields of digital visual arts and sound art. It promotes cultural exchange and artistic collaboration across borders, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to climate change and sustainability.Throughout the year, the artists have worked in residencies and workshops, resulting in a series of new artworks that will be presented for the first time during the Symposium of the RIXC Festival 2025, taking place on October 16–18 at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga.
The artworks presented at the festival will include “AI Herbarium” by Latvian artists Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits, an extended reality installation that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to visualise the evolutionary processes of flowering plants affected by climate change – a continuation of their immersive artwork series Solarceptors. French artist Marylou Sharrock will exhibit her interactive sound installation “Maison (Home)”, where visitors can engage with a digitally recreated soundscape of Latvian bird songs by manipulating frequency layers. Meanwhile, German artist Adnan Softić, in collaboration with sound artists from Riga and Liepāja, will present “Klimaton – Listening to the Disappearing Landscape”, a live performance and composition based on climate data from the Arctic, performed with a custom-built instrument that transforms environmental data into sound.
More information about the project: http://rixc.org