It's like this kind of trending anxiety and basically, yeah, like just feeling of fear and... unsafe the feeling of unsafety so yes maybe I went a bit too long but I'll pass the microphone thank you

Hey, I'm Anna-Maria, one of the Latvian artists here, and I'm part of a collective where we are collaborating together with another artist, Krysianis Helviks and Anna Anson, and for this project we also involved another one artist, Anna-Maria Pute.

So I have some kind of photography background and I did some projects individually, like actually in this collaborative project, it's our second collaborative project we did in this photography medium, but in our collective we are like really multi-disciplinary multimedia artists and we are trying out different things to work with the installations some of our artists are with scenography background, performance art and our like style and aesthetics and techniques how we work changes And for this photography is the main technique and medium for this project.

And it's really interesting to be in this photography museum when we are with these different backgrounds and different mediums.

But this time we... we are talking about insomnia and trying to explain how it is to be in this environment where you need to be productive all the time and nowadays there are a lot of people and also from our like artist group who is I'm sorry, my English again is like struggling and I'm...

Yeah, yeah, I'm translating something.

There's a lot of people who is experiencing insomnia and this project developed like, it started like two years ago as I understood from Christianis and Anna conversation about insomnia.

And if that... stops because no one buys work like no one cares like you do it for yourself usually uh but uh if i if that stops my old practice stops as well because i have no more money like then i become a farmer like that's the idea like for me like there's no other way how to do it because like you cannot yeah