VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES

2-DAY "OPEN FIELDS" CONFERENCE, 6 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS, 80 PRESENTATIONS, 3 EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND JUST 140 AVAILABLE SEATS

RECEPTION AND FESTIVAL EXHIBITION OPENING

WELCOME WORDS AND OPENING TALKS:
Dace MELBARDE, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Pieter (Jan) LANGENBERG, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Latvia
Dominique Claire PETTER, Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission, Swiss Embassy
Rasa SMITE, Curator of RIXC Festival
Valentinas KLIMASAUSKAS, Programme Director of kim? Contemporary Art Centre,
and others.

OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL EXHIBITION – PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Marc LEE (CH), Jacques PERCONTE (FR), Juuke SCHOORL (NL), Brenna MURPHY (US), Hans BREDER (DE / US), Clement VALLA (US), Matteo ZAMAGNI & Daniel BEN-HUR (UK/IT), Zane ZELMENE (LV), The Swan Collective / Felix KRAUS (DE), Annie BERMAN (US), Felipe CUCKER & Hector RODRIGUEZ (HK), Gunta DOMBROVSKA (LV), Martin John CALLANAN (UK/IE), Nina FISCHER & Maroan EL SANI (DE), Santa FRANCE (LV), Greta HAUER (UK), Martin HESSELMEIER & Andreas MUXEL (DE/AT), Raphael KIM (UK), Michal KINDERNAY (CZ), Christopher MANZIONE & Seth CLUETT (US), Andrew MCWILLIAMS (UK), Melodie MOUSSET & Naem BARON (CH/FR), Hanns Holger RUTZ (AT), Julia SOKOLNICKA (PL/NL), Danielle ZORBAS (AU/GR).

Curator: Raitis Smits