Roots to Routes is a collaboration between artists, curators and non-profit organisations from the city of Marseille and the Baltic countries, taking place in Marseille as part of the Manifesta 13 Biennial programme Les Parallèles du Sud. Curated by Merilin Talumaa (EE), Maija Rudovska (LV) and Justė Kostikovaitė (LT), the project will unfold across a series of exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, lectures and walks in Marseille from the 28th of August 2020 to the 25th of October 2020. This project was made possible with the support of the newly created Baltic Culture Fund that aims to support collaboration between art initiatives in the Baltic region and cultural agents abroad.
Conceived just before and during the time of the pandemic, Roots to Routes interacts with the notions of belonging and displacement. Geographical proximity and physical relations that are lost, rediscovered or limited during the pandemic activate our imagination and remind us of the interconnectedness that exists between people, places, spaces and ideas. The project brings together artists from Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and France who deal with topics such as identity, territory and belonging. It aims to address the concept of the stranger (taken from Georg Simmel’s The Stranger (1908) : someone who arrives to a community and who, in a complex interplay of simultaneous nearness and distance, imports qualities into it which do not and cannot stem from the group itself.
Don’t miss it Roots to Routes :
– Pirouette | Roots to Routes
Participant: Lina Lapelytė
Performance
Venue: 93 rue de la République
– Insula | Roots to Routes
Participants: Maarja Tõnisson, Dovydas Strimaitis, Maarja Nuut & Ruum, Kadi Adrikorn, Claudia Lepik
Performance
Venue: 93 rue de la République
– Same door different street | Roots to Routes
Participants: Evita Vasiļjeva, Antoine Nessi
Exhibition, performance et meet ups
Venue: 93 rue de la République
– Palette | Roots to Routes
Participants: Daria Meļņikova and guests
Workshops, exhibition and performances
Venue: Salon du Salon
– AGENTS | Roots to Routes
Participant: Anastasia Sosunova
Film
Venue: 93 rue de la République
– Grandeur Nature | Roots to Routes
Participant: Anne-Sophie Turion
Walk and performance
Venue: La Valentine
– Double Explosure |Roots to Routes
Participants: Emilija Škarnulytė, Katrīna Neiburga, Ieva Epnere, Eglė Budvytytė, Anastasia Sosunova, Ingel Vaikla, Kristina Norman
Screening programme
Venue: Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier et Ciné-Club
