| Description |
By the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century Baltic societies had undergone radical transformation processes that could be described as a shift from the Soviet Union to the European Union. The questions that the Interdisciplinary Art Group SERDE (Serdein Latvian signifies ‘core’ and ‘pith.’) is interested in include: how open-ing borders to global influences brought about changes in cultural practices due to media availability and access to consumer goods, and how we look at these changes from the perspective of cultural heritage. These are personal stories about recent local history and skills preserved during the Soviet Era because of very limited access to consumer prod-ucts in shops and markets. These stories include historical background and show how certain skills were preserved from before the Second World War and maintained during the Soviet period, when consumer products were not readily available and so had to be home-produced or collected from nature. |
