On May 28 at 19:00, Baltic Analog Lab and festival Skaņu mežs within Riga Art Week invites you for our new event series called “Resonance Pre-Process Residence” showcasing performances by current artists-in-residence Cian McCarthy (IE), Andrés Joaquín Sendino (ES) and Tudor Rhys Etchells (UK) and performance by Baltic Analog Lab members together with sound collective Bernurits.

Cian McCarthy is a Dublin-based audiovisual artist and researcher working across sound, film, and installation. As hearing-impaired, he uses his disability to create work that is both emotive and informative. Cian will present a live audiovisual performance developed during his residency at Baltic Analog Lab in Riga. The performance draws from a collection of sounds gathered throughout his time in the city, including field recordings captured in natural environments, industrial estates, and suburban spaces, alongside material generated using Erica Synths analogue synthesizers available at BAL. These recordings and textures will be layered, manipulated, and performed live through McCarthy’s hand built plate reverb installation, transforming the sounds into shifting resonant environments shaped by vibration, distortion, and spatial reflection. Blending analogue and digital processes, the performance explores the  relationship between memory, place, and mediated listening, using the plate reverb as both a sound instrument and sculptural installation. His residency is funded by IADT and the TU rise Elevate programme.

Andrés Joaquín Sendino is a visual artist born in Toledo and currently based in Tallinn. Coming from the documentary tradition in photography, he has over twenty years of experience working across documentary and film. His practice explores the intersections between diverse photographic techniques and cinematic expression.

During his time at the BAL residency, Andrés Joaquín Sendino has been working on a project shaped by a phrase from Giorgio Morandi: “There is nothing more surreal, nothing more abstract, than reality.” The presentation takes the form of fragments from an experimental film project shown as an ongoing working process, combining 35 mm film, 16 mm footage, and still photography. The work establishes a dialogue between different analogue formats, in which the medium itself acquires both narrative and symbolic significance. Texture, visual fragmentation, and imperfection become integral elements of its cinematic language.

As a third resident in collaboration with ISSP Latvia - Tudor Rhys Etchells is a documentary artist and former human rights lawyer from Wales, who uses the photograph to challenge fictions created by legal systems. He will be presenting a one off lecture, ‘Amicus Curiae: A friend of the court explains context’, that explores his process as developed over the residency. Based on an encounter within Latvian courts it takes a single image as a place of discussion of the performance of the law. The photograph’s responsibility to the rule of law is tested in an investigative lecture that excludes essential evidence.

He is currently on a month-long FUTURES art residency with ISSP.

At the end of the evening we will also present an audio-visual performance with Baltic Analog Lab members - Sintija Andersone, Ieva Balode and Elīna Matvejeva together with sound collective Bērnu rīts - Maksims Šenteļevs and Jēkabs Nīmanis presenting their procedural performance “Rites of Passage” involving field recordings of shamanic chanting from Mentawai tribe recorded at Sumatra, Indonesia and inviting audience for immersion experience in audio-visual journey through the forest.

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, Riga City Council and Riga Art Week.