John Hejduk: The Riga Project

John Hejduk: The Riga Project is a faithful reissue of the 1989 publication marking the 35-year anniversary of the 1987 Object/Subject structures installed at the Great Hall of the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

The book details the construction of Object/Subject – two anthropomorphic structures, two coupling elements seemingly bracing and embracing. The Object and the Subject were part of Hejduk’s troupe of characters that accompanied him from city to city, in some cases to places he had never visited. They were first manifested in a 1987 installation and later in the Riga book in his 1989 Vladivostok trilogy, thus becoming The Riga Project.

The new revised edition expands on these reflections with two additional books in a custom-made slipcase – a Latvian translation and Act Two: The Riga Project, which initiates preparatory works for the reenactment of Hejduk’s Riga in Riga and elsewhere in Latvia – a distant memory that has returned home.

The reenactment of John Hejduk: The Riga Project and the reissued publication is curated by Rudolfs Dainis Šmits, Igors Malovickis, Reinis Saliņš and Andris Dzenis.

Published by ARHITEKSTI Foundation, Riga, 2021, designed by Jānis Birznieks / B&K Design, three paperback volumes in custom-made slipcase, English and Latvian editions, 144 pages, illustrated, 229 x 304 x 17 mm, 969 g, ISBN: 978-9934-9057-0-4

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