17/05/2025
Lätlaste laululava on Riias Mežaparksis. Metsapargis. Meil on lätlastega ühine puu- ja sõnatüvi, mis on pärit keele algusajast, koriluskultuurist. Soomeugri taagast leiab ungarikeelse messze ’kaugel, kaugele, eemal, eemale’, samuti on protobalti-slaavi keeles medjas ’miski kuskil millegi vahel’. Mets on see lõputu ja müstiline miski, mis kuskilt kuhugi minnes tuleb alati läbida, suur ja otsatu, algab mere äärest ja ei teagi, kus ta kaugem piir on.”
Karli Luik kirjutab Läti laululavast, ajab keelelisi ja mütopoeetilisi jälgi ning jõuab piirkondliku stiililise määratluse – boreaalse postmodernismini.
📖𝗧𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝘀𝗮 𝗷ä𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗸𝘀
Karli Luik Läti laululavast (Mailitis Architects, Arhitekta J.Pogas birojs.)
Loe MAJA 119 teemanumbrisr Baltic Extra!
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“Latvians have their song festival grounds in Riga’s Mežaparks. ‘Mežaparks’ is Latvian for ‘forest park’. The Estonian word of the same meaning (‘metsapark’) has the same root that goes all the way back to the very beginning of our language and a hunter-gatherer culture. In the Finno-Ugric family, we also find the Hungarian word ‘messze’ (‘far, to far away, away, to away’), whereas in the Proto-Balto-Slavic, there is the word ‘medjas’ (‘between something’). Forest is that interminable and mysterious entity that always needs to be traversed when going somewhere, vast and boundless, starting from the sea and ending who-knows-where.”
Karli Luik writes about Latvian singing festival grounds, maps out linguistic and mythopoetic
roots and coins a new term for regional peculiarities – boreal postmodernism.
📖𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻
Karli Luik ( ) on Latvian Singing Festival Grounds by Mailitis Archtiects ( ) and Arhitekta J.Pogas birojs.
In MAJA 119 Baltic Extra!
