Experimental music festival Skaņu Mežs 2025 will happen on October 3-4 at Hanzas Perons (16A Hanzas Street), and tickets can be purchased at https://ej.uz/SM2025. In parallel to the concerts, several artworks will be exhibited at the same venue over the two days of the event.
Richie Culver -– I TRUST PAIN (Film)
I TRUST PAIN presents a formally hybrid meditation on fatherhood through the interweaving of six music videos with intimate, deteriorated footage of the artist’s childhood hometown and family home. The film navigates fragmented memory, emotional inheritance, and the psychic weight of paternal absence, offering a layered exploration of masculinity shaped by class, geography, and silence.
The music videos – by Richie Culver, Blackhaine, Allen-Golder Carpenter, Rebecca Salvadori, Max Kreis, and SKINTAPE – form a dispersed but thematically cohesive network of voices.
The childhood hometown, depicted in stark, desaturated visuals, becomes a broader metaphor for cultural and emotional stagnation. The family home – decades later and in decay – operates as a symbolic archive of affect, where formative experiences and care are both inscribed and withheld. These spaces are not neutral settings but active sites of emotional and ideological transmission.
Richie Culver is a British multidisciplinary artist known for raw, text-driven works that confront class, masculinity, and mental health through a lens of lived experience. Emerging from a working-class background in Hull, his practice spans painting, photography, and installation, often blurring the line between autobiography and social critique.
Margrieta Griestiņa – “Album Cover” painting exhibition
Margrieta Griestiņa has always been drawn to vinyl record artwork. In her latest painting series, “Album Cover,” she imagines and re-creates record sleeves that never existed. The paintings hint at different music genres – for example, Crazy Frog reflects Eurodance, Packman hints at hip-hop, and Sprīdītis is inspired by folklore. You’ll also find eclectic greatest hits compilations, built-in Casio synthesizer sounds, and even a sound forest.
Margrieta Griestiņa is a Latvian multidisciplinary artist known for her playful, unpredictable work that blends visual art, music, and social commentary. Based in Madona, she co-founded the experimental art space “Visuma centrs 2” and often incorporates boxing, surrealism, and pop-cultural references into her creative practice.
Pierce Warnecke & Matthew Biederman – “Phytomorphic Topographies” (AV work)
“Phytomorphic Topographies” is a suite of audio-visual works exploring the delicate ecosystems of Latvia’s wilderness through immersive 3D visuals and near-field sound recordings. In June 2025, the artists spent a week in the forests, bogs, and nature reserves of east-central Latvia, guided by botanist Līga Pentjuša (from the Latvian State Forest Research Institute “Silava”), conducting botanical surveys using photogrammetry and field recording techniques.
By engaging with these landscapes across multiple scales – from satellite imagery to micro-level sensory detail – the project offers a fresh perspective on our relationship with nature and challenges conventional notions of human integration within fragile ecosystems. This presentation will take place as part of the sound art project “tekhnē”, co-funded by the EU and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.
After the duo’s performance, “Phytomorphic Topographies” will remain exhibited at Hanzas Perons for two days.
Pierce Warnecke and Matthew Biederman are an audiovisual artist duo whose collaborative works explore ecological systems, perception, and data through immersive sound and 3D visual environments.
Tickets: https://ej.uz/SM2025
Facebook event:https://www.facebook.com/events/1804325026989403
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