title: Things We Make. In Search of Intersections Between Artist-Curator Work and Networks as a Form of Immaterial Labor in 1980s Latvia
abstract: This paper examines the intersection between the practice of artist-curator and networking as forms of immaterial labor in 1980s Latvia, using the houses of creativity and the exhibition series Gadījums (Happenstance, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988) as a point of departure. It focuses on the artist-curator as a pivotal figure in shaping artistic processes during the late Soviet era. Their labor contributed to new forms of exhibiting, staging, and representing art in Latvia, while also engaging with the 
journal: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis