klavs liepins

performer, video artist, dancer

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Grosombols Trailer

Dance performance 'Grosombols' , Aizpute, 2022, as a result of Horos residency organised by Tuvumi. ‘Grosombols’ is a dance performance about…

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Site-specific dance performance 'Grosombols' , Aizpute 2022, as a result of Horos residency organised by @tuvumi.horos ‘Grosombols’ is a dance performance about the search of masculinity in the body, behaviour, beliefs, emotionality, public perceptions, stereotypes and expectations. Dramaturgy:Linda Krūmiņa Photo: Aleksejs Beļeckis

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Corpus by Klāvs Liepiņš // Trailer

What happens to the body and the soul after death? Religion and science gives us numerous answers that shape our interpretation of the unknown which implicate a…

What happens to the body and the soul after death? Religion and science gives us numerous answers that shape our interpretation of the unknown which implicate a miscellany of facts and fiction. This combination allows the artist to create yet another fabrication or maybe even get closer to the truth.

Corpus is a delicate and philosophical take on death. A transformation of the body, shape, matter and energy through movement.

Iceland, 2021

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Stills from video installation  Hyperconnectivity 2 & Potato Atlas  Exhibition at NÝLO

Reykjavik, 2021

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Potato People , 2021 

photo by @Sandis Liass 

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Traces Of Red

Traces of Red is a fictional story of somebody else´s consciousness. Not in the mind of somebody in particular but more, like ´a collage of inherited stories, movies and pictures. The work explores the visual heritage of a time-space before my consciousness was formed, before I was born – an inherited parental and societal memory. I am exploring the fictional reality of a Soviet archetype of a person, collecting visual and verbal traces of a past that I was never physically part of. In this way we were able to pixel together an idea of the past and a feeling associated with it. With time the emotional strain fades away, and what is left is a healthy need to understand. Experiences and facts are passed through the generations. They become fictions based on someone else´s transplanted memories. The work deals with the importance of processing our feelings even if they are in part transplanted. Through building a collective memory we connect, find common ground in order to move forward and have more clarity regarding our future. Even though our clarity comes from an understanding of something that we have never experienced.  Reykjavik, 2019

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FEELS LIKE HEAVEN by Renāte Feizaka in collaboration with Klāvs Liepiņš“ Angels, when appearing to men, are able to transform to a human form. They are also able to create sweet melodies or captivating music for human ears.”In my sculptural work my intention is to explore the notion of a mystical fantasy, set in a place called Heaven. I am very interested in the concept of angels and the mythology around them. Being inspired by my Catholic upbringing and my close relationship with my religious grandmother, I tend to explore the humour, beauty and absurdity of the collection of information I call memory. By creating a visual “system” I delve into the connectivity between the verbal and visual information that is diffused to an individual through religious history and collective consciousness. In the video work me and the performer Klāvs Liepiņš metamorphose into angels as we attempt to imagine the mundane life in Heaven.

2020, Reykjavik

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site-specific performance by Klavs Liepins and Yelena Arakelow Yelena Arakelow and Klāvs Liepiņš performance at Vides Deja festival, Latvia, 2020

This performance reactivates, brings back the stories and colours of the Līgatnes Paper factory. The performers invite the audience to pass through and experience the influences of time.

Performers: Kitija Kanepe, Daniela Indāne, Vladimirs Goršantovs, Klāvs Liepinš, Yelena Arakelow

Voices: Ligita Treija, Jevdokija Beitāne, Dzidra Šteina

Video documentation: Hygin Delimat

Special Thanks to Daina Birne, Nordic Culture Point and Līgatnes Papīra Fabrika.

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Photos by Sasha Lebedeva instagram.com/lebedevasasha

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Body and Architecture, 

Collaboration between Photographer Sasha Lebedeva and Dancer Klāvs Liepiņš. Ukrainian photographer Sasha Lebedeva and Latvian (based in Iceland) dancer Klāvs Liepiņš  met in Riga, Latvia to explore the connection between architecture and body. Their interest in this project was to explore Soviet and Modern architecture blending and bending the lines between time, body and architecture, capturing the shape engagements in the relationship between human body and man made structural forms. Riga, 2020 instagram.com/lebedevasasha

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my residency in cultural space Točka, captured by Sandis Liass

Riga, Latvia 2020

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Video by Klavs Liepins

Performer: Sintija Meness Special Thanks: Linda Krumina

Iceland, Latvia 2019

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Vil – Lovis Bechmann, Julius Rothlaender vildumediskoven.bandcamp.com/ facebook.com/vildumediskoven

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Wooden Vandal 2019, Homo Novus Festival Latvia 

contact Gonzo (Osaka) in collaboration with Latvian artists Elīna Lutce, Aldis Liepiņš, Klāvs Liepiņš, Andris Eglītis To see contact Gonzo in action, is an electrifying experience. Their radical, extremely physical style that fuses contact improvisation, slapstick, parkour and martial art, is direct, almost blunt but it creates an exquisite and joyful presence that quickly transmits to audience. contact Gonzo described their approach as “philosophy of pain, technique of contact”. With humour and intelligence they turn the violent movemements of slapping, crushing, falling and hitting into a mesmerising and gloriously anarchic show.

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photo by: SARA ANGELICA SPILLING www.saraangelicaspilling.com Iceland, 2019

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Horns - by Costume

Director: Blair Alexander The Faun: Klāvs Liepiņš Wardrobe: Michelle Boyde

Director: Blair Alexander The Faun: Klāvs Liepiņš Wardrobe: Michelle Boyde

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Summer, 2018 it was my great honor to perform in various forms in P.E.O.P.L.E. festival Berlin. Photo from rehearsal with Damien Rice, Cantus Domus and Mariam Wallentin.