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Description: Experience the diversity of modern Latvian poetry with Orbita, a bilingual poetry collective that showcases innovative poetic expressions through multimedia projects, performances, and exhibitions. The Orbita Group is a poetry and multimedia art collective founded in Riga, Latvia in 1999.
Orbita is a collective of poets, photographers, artists, and musicians, founded in 1999 by Alexander Zapol, Vladimir Leibgam, Artur Punte, Vladimir Svetlov, Sergej Timofejev, and Zhorzh Uallik. Its members initially came together around a publishing project that came to its first fruition with several issues of the Orbita almanac, eventually leading to the establishment of a freestanding publishing house focused on bilingual editions of poetry and photography. In the meantime, the group began to experiment
Books published by Orbita are primarily bilingual editions of poetry and photography albums. Their chief distinctive feature is experimentation with format, as is especially evident in publications of works by the Orbita members themselves. These include: a set of two volumes held together by hidden magnets, with translations of text into a “visual language” by 10 Latvian artists (Semyon Khanin, Вплавь / Peldus / Afloat ); a book featuring fold-out pages, chromatic distinctions between translations and orig
A number of Orbita’s works, in one way or another, utilize the internet environment and software. These include synthetic compositions employing already existing IT solutions and works that demand the creation of specialized art-software, as well as internet and broadcasting environments. As a prerequisite for reading a text in one work by Sergej Timofejev, Я — текст / I am Text , readers must make it through a retro-style shooter computer game (graphics developed by cartoon artist Edmunds Jansons). Alexand
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Dicethrow Films – filmēšana un montāža
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