3h 10 min
Location: Latvian Academy of Art courtyard, apple tree
Time: the exact moment between the apple tree’s winter dormancy and the start of its active growing season (this year—April 11)
Location: Courtyard of the Latvian Academy of Art
Materials: apple tree, (5 liters of whitewash, 2 buckets, a ladder, 3 brushes, a rake for moss and lichen, black overall, a hat, gloves, footwear, a safety harness

I’m sending an impulse through the nervous system of the Art Academy of Latvia—I’m whitewashing the apple tree in the courtyard.
Time here isn’t measurable, but is experienced as a current flowing through movement, fear, excitement, fatigue, and the resistance of the material.”

In the exhibition, on view until July 10 at the Latvian Academy of Art’s experimental art space PILOT, the nerve impulse splits into multiple channels, offering different temporal experiences of the same event.

The large 65-inch screen shows how time gradually accumulates in space; the smaller 28-inch screen presents a fragmented, physical presence; while the tablet opens a passage into my thoughts (listen here, in Latvian: https://frabjous-khapse-dd9dcb.netlify.app).

The bucket, coveralls, and brushes are witnesses to the impulse, continuing to exist in ways not yet foreseen.

The apple tree doesn’t stop working even after I’m gone—it continues to perform, to blossom and unfurl its leaves.