もっと詳しく

The little bird must be caught, Or he will escape up high, And we will miss our chance To stifle his little cry. The Greek curator iLiana Fokianaki was struck after stumbling on these words by the Latvian poet and writer Ojārs Vācietis (d.1983). She felt they were so raw with honesty in their questioning of Soviet dogma, they inspired her to create “The Little Bird Must Be Caught” – the title of this year’s edition of the Survival Kit art festival, one of the largest contemporary art festivals in the Baltics. Far from riding the wave of resistance that’s been sparked across much of the world b…