ZRwhdZ. Rīga
22/08 - 06/10 2019
Kim? Contemporary Art Center
Sporta 2

ZRwhdZ. Prague
06 - 16/06 2019
Prague Quadrennial / Latvian pavilion
Výstaviště Praha

Zeno’s third paradox was about an arrow in flight. But, seeing as it stands still in any one instant of time, it remains motionless. The arrow flies forward, but does not move. It pierces the heart, and from this poems are born. So said Vladimir Gandelsman. This piece has arisen from multiple arrows that have pierced us. The arrow of Rīgas Laiks. The arrow of Wagner. The arrow of Auznieks. And all the other conscious and unconscious arrows of life.
ZRwhdZ is like a formula. It is like the golden ratio through which you can approach perfection in live art. Deciphering the abbreviation you get the phrase “Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit” (“Here, time becomes space”) from the libretto of Richard Wagner’s last opera Parsifal. Time and space become the frame, the legs on which the scenography moves.
A few years ago on a trip, we got a pocket-sized musical box which can fit into the palm of a hand. But a person can also fit into the music box. Something can come into existence in the space between contradiction and ambivalence, which contains childishness and its loss, or its retrieval. Art poses questions, because in creating art you have to discover the world anew.
Please, enter the exit!

Concept and artistic realisation: Krista Dzudzilo and Reinis Dzudzilo
Composer: Krists Auznieks
Instrument expert: Aleksandrs Maijers in collaboration with Jānis Liniņš and Kaspars Putriņš
Technical realisation: Jānis Liniņš, Oskars Plataiskalns, Dekorāciju darbnīca, Ivars Ozols, SoundOZ
Curator: Gundega Laiviņa
Producers: Sandra Lapkovska, Klinta Harju, New Theatre Institute of Latvia
Video: Rolands Briedis