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Piibe Kolka "It’s Not a Place, It’s a Shape. Andy Männik's Archive"

Event artwork: Piibe Kolka "It’s Not a Place, It’s a Shape. Andy Männik's Archive"

In short

A lecture-performance by Piibe Kolka about a personal archive that belonged to Andy Männik, an Estonian carpenter who lived in New York and helped initiate The Kitchen. The piece connects a friendship, a city, and an archive, and looks at disappearance and presence, embodied memory, and early video rhythms.

Its form refers to the experimental early events around video and performance art, when artists brought tapes and built live events around them.

Summary by Eventeeka from the organizer’s announcement. The original text follows below.

15 October 2026, Thursday · 19:30–20:00 · From €9.5 · EN

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Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Pikk 20, 10133 Tallinn, Harju ↗

It's Not a Place, It's a Shape. Andy Männik's Archive is a lecture-performance by Piibe Kolka that takes audiences into a personal archive. The archive belonged to Andy Männik, an Estonian carpenter living in New York who, among other things, initiated the avant-garde arts space The Kitchen. It is the story of a friendship, the story of a city, and the story of an archive.

Piibe is interested in disappearance and presence, in what is recorded and what emerges in the moment, in embodied memories and the rhythms of early video. The form of the performance refers to the early years of The Kitchen and to the experimental "bring your tapes" evenings of early video and performance art, where artists made video recordings and built live events around them.

Piibe Kolka is a filmmaker and artworker whose practice involves playful interpretations of real-life material. These interpretations may take shape as films, installations, performances, writing, conversations, or walks.

Author and performer: Piibe Kolka

Dramaturg: Kadri Noormets

Sound design: Israel Bañuelos

Light design: Leon Allik

Camera: Fidelia Regina Randmäe, Piibe Kolka

Project manager: Kerly Ritval

Thank you: Kristiina Davidjants

Co-production: Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Piibe Kolka, Maagiline Masin

Project development: UnionDocs, SoundImageCulture Lab

Supported by: Eesti Kultuurkapital, Eesti Filmi Instituut, Eesti Rahvusarhiiv

Premiere: 15.10.2026 Kanuti Gildi SAAL

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