On February 26, at 19.00, Baltic Analog Lab and Skaņu Mežs invite you to a film screening, sound performance and artist talks by February artists-in-residence: Charlotte Parr-Burman (UK), Syd Farrington (UK) and Nate Scheible (USA).

Charlotte Parr-Burman is a London-based woodcut printmaker working with analogue photography and liquid-emulsion transfers. She holds an MA from Central Saint Martins (2023). Her work bridges analogue photography and reductive printmaking. She transfers her own 35mm images onto plywood, carving them into layered, meditative prints that reframe overlooked moments in the built environment. While in Riga, Charlotte focused on analogue transfers to plywood using photo-emulsion. She will present a collection of works using photographs from her archive and new work captured around Riga. She has been testing and experimenting with methods of combining several images together into compositions on plywood, with the intention of carving these works into woodcut prints on her return to London.

Syd Farrington is an artist and filmmaker living and working in London. Working with film, his practice often explores the physical effect of contemporary capitalism on changing landscapes and our relationship to them. Recent work has been shown at International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Short Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris and The Selected 14 (Film London) screening tour. In 2023 He graduated with an MA in Artists’ Film and Moving Image from Goldsmiths, University of London. During his residency at Baltic Analog Lab he has been editing a long term film project that takes the river Thames and mudlarking as its starting point, as well as examining the variance in landscape surrounding Riga, collecting images and field recordings and following changes in daylight. During the screening, He will present some of his most recent films as well as some hand processed, work-in-progress 16mm projections made at BAL.

Nate Scheible is a Washington, DC based artist who has performed and recorded both solo and in a variety of ensembles over the past two decades. His background is largely based in improvisation on percussion, composition using magnetic tape processes, and the occasional noise or punk band. Nate’s work is featured on the labels Warm Winters, Outside Time, Unifactor, and Feeding Tube. In his presentation you will hear a live piece performed primarily on the lab’s 5U modular synth that explores feedback, cross-modulation, dissonance, and phasing in conjunction with live tape loops. He will also present a tape collage using material recorded while in residence and about town in Riga.

The event will take place in the Baltic Analog Lab 2nd-floor residence rooms, Lienes iela 19a.

Event language: English.
Free admission, drinks for donation.

Baltic Analog Lab Residency is supported by the Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation.