{"id":22068,"date":"2025-04-14T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/1-2025-119-baltic-extra\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:38:29","slug":"1-2025-119-baltic-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/1-2025-119-baltic-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"1-2025 (119): Baltic Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">OUTSET<\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/baltic-spaces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #23dede;\">Baltic Spaces<\/span><\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong>Laura Linsi, Madli Kaljuste<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">PROJECT<\/span><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #23dede;\"><a style=\"color: #23dede;\" href=\"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/make-forest-great-again-latvian-song-festival-grounds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latvian Song Festival Grounds<\/a><\/span><br \/><\/strong>Riga, LV<br \/>Mailitis Architects, Arhitekta J. Pogas birojs<br \/><strong>Karli Luik<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">RESEARCH<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #23dede;\"><a style=\"color: #23dede;\" href=\"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/metsepole-life-between-two-forests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Metsepole. Life Between Two Forests<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/><strong>Toms Kokins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">ESSAY<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #23dede;\"><a style=\"color: #23dede;\" href=\"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/landscape-of-defence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Landscape of Defence<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/><strong>Liene J\u0101kobsone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">INVENTORY<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #23dede;\"><a style=\"color: #23dede;\" href=\"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/narva-a-to-z\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Narva A-Z<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/><strong>Francisco Mart\u00ednez, Joosep Kivim\u00e4e<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">PROJECT<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #23dede;\"><a style=\"color: #23dede;\" href=\"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/back-to-1967-contemporary-art-centre-vilnius\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>V. E. \u010cekanauskas (1967),<br \/>V. Ozarinskas (2000s),<br \/>Audrius Bu\u010das ja Marina Bu\u010dien\u0117 (2024)<br \/><strong>Andrius Ropolas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00c9TUDES<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #23dede;\"><a style=\"color: #23dede;\" href=\"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/pretensions-in-the-basement-the-least-seen-floor-in-terra-mariana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pretensions in the Basement, The Least Seen Floor in Terra Mariana<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/><strong>Hans Alla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">PROJECT<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #23dede;\"><a style=\"color: #23dede;\" href=\"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/a-symbolic-building-during-a-war-of-symbols\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Estonian Statehood House<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>PLSAB, Urmas L\u00f5okese arhitektuurib\u00fcroo<br \/><strong>Linda Kaljundi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">REVISIT<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #23dede;\"><a style=\"color: #23dede;\" href=\"https:\/\/ajakirimaja.ee\/en\/same-same-but-different\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Same Same, but Different<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/><strong>Hannes Aava<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>BALTIC EXTRA<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, collectively known as the Baltics, are three small countries that most of the world finds pretty much indistinguishable. As a geopolitical term, \u2018the Baltics\u2019 took root only in the 20th century. The more distant past and cultural history of the three countries differ on several levels. Perhaps it is namely in defiance against externally imposed homogenising simplifications that we tend to turn to more distant places for inspiration and view local trends and tendencies as something confined only to national borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, anxious times encourage unity, urging us to discover and interpret our identity instead of letting others define us. Attempts at self-definition are reflected in the re-introduction of the coats-of-arms of Baltic German noble families to the walls of the Estonian Statehood House in Tallinn (p. 100) as well as in neutralising the dirty realism of the 2000s in the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (p. 84). The three countries are geopolitically peculiar: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are the only former members of the Soviet Union (having been occupied after the Second World War) that belong to both the European Union and NATO today. The eastern border of the Baltics is simultaneously that of the EU and of the democratic world. Francisco Mart\u00ednez describes life on the border as that of living on the edge, where differences but also contacts are intensified (p. 64). The physical realities of this state of affairs \u2013 fences, Czech hedgehogs, concrete blocks \u2013 and their impact on people and landscapes is discussed by Liene J\u0101kobsone (p. 56).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to be carried and consolidated not only by fear, but also joy, pleasure, and curiosity, it is important to perceive other Baltic commonalities and peculiarities. A big narrative we share is that of singing &#8211; \u2018Three stars \/ Three sisters \/ Three song festivals\u2019. And three symbolic buildings. Karli Luik suggests that the indexical architecture of the new Latvian song festival grounds could be called boreal postmodernism (p. 28). When we asked architects in the region about Baltic spatial features, we mostly heard of cliff-lined shores, shading canopies, haystacks, and other loosely defined spaces (p. 10). Wide breadth, blurred boundaries, ambiguous endings and beginnings \u2013 the charm of the Baltic condition is not easy to grasp. But as Latvians say, per Reinis Salins: \u2018Katram savs st\u016br\u012btis\u2019 (\u2018Everyone has their own corner\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Linsi, Editor-in-chief<br>Madli Kaljuste, Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, collectively known as the Baltics, are three small countries that most of the world finds pretty much indistinguishable. As a geopolitical term, \u2018the Baltics\u2019 took root only in the 20th century. The more distant past and cultural history of the three countries differ on several levels.<br \/>\nPerhaps it is namely in defiance against externally imposed homogenising simplifications that we tend to turn to more distant places for inspiration and view local trends and tendencies as something confined only to national borders. However, anxious times encourage unity, urging us to discover and interpret our identities ourselves instead of letting others define us. In order to be carried and consolidated not only by fear, but also joy, pleasure, and curiosity we invite to discover commonalities and peculiarities of the Baltic countries!<br \/>\nWide breadth, blurred boundaries, ambiguous endings and beginnings\u2014the charm of the Baltic condition is not easy to grasp. 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