In 2020, Outset Estonia supported the book Your Time is My Time: Reflections on the Conditions That Shape Contemporary Baltic Art (2023).
Your Time Is My Time analyses contemporary artistic practices amongst artists from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the context of evolving global networks and art production. The book focuses on artists from the Baltic countries who have been living and working outside the region for extended periods, or who have been engaged in a nomadic lifestyle, constantly travelling between different cities and countries. It explores different aspects of migration, precariousness, belonging and community-building in the practices of these artists, in order to reflect on how working conditions shape their artworks.
Your Time Is My Time also captures a turning point in the perception of temporal, geographical and social proximity, and the shift towards finding more sustainable artistic methods and practices in response to deepening economic and ecological distress. Has this current era of crises resulted in new ways of working? How has the meaning of home and workplace changed?
Compiled and edited by Annika Toots and Merilin Talumaa Texts by Inga Lāce, Sandra Skurvida, Emma Duester, Neringa Černiauskaitė With contributions by Žilvinas Kempinas, Vytenis Jankūnas, Viktor Timofeev, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Daiga Grantiņa, Ingel Vaikla, Pakui Hardware, Merike Estna, Agnė Juodvalkytė, Katja Novitskova, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Lina Lapelytė, Evita Vasiļjeva, Emilija Škarnulytė, Laura Põld, Maria Kapajeva
Design by Kert Viiart
Published & distributed by Mousse Publishing & Roots to Routes
2023
English
216 pages
ISBN 978-88-6749-591-7
