The annual Survival Kit festival, one of the largest annual contemporary art events in the Baltics since 2009, will take place from September 4 to October 4 in Riga, in the former building of the Museum of Writing and Music at 75 Tērbatas Street.

The theme of the eleventh festival is “Being safe is dangerous” and it is curated by Katya Krupennikova, assistant professor at HKU University of the Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The festival looks at the concept of security from a rebellious point of view. It criticizes developments that limit individual and social development by asking the question: how much violence does security discourse involve? The exhibition will explore the possibility of changing assumptions about the concept of security by re-attempting to combine security with practices such as love, togetherness, mutual support, attention, concern for each other and the environment.

The director and producer of the public program of the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art tells about the theme, participants and program of the festival Agnese Pundiņa.