For every performance we made a conception thus if we had a success to realize ten percents of an idea, then performance had been successful,
A huge variety of possibilities existed, for instance, if such an action occurs, then it would be followed by another definite action and so on,
Performance is a show that happens among the spectators. The performer is a part of them but he does absolutely different things from them,
Performance is a spontaneous process where the performers make new discoveries in a social environment,
Performance for the group NSRD was a possibility to make actions, where music was mixed together with installation, literature and movement.
The Restauration Workshop of Novel Feelings (NSRD) was a goup established in 1982. The participants were Hardijs Lediņš ( 1955-2004), Juris Boiko (1954-2001), Aigars Sparāns (1955-1996) and Imants Žodžiks, but many musicians, artists and just fellows took part in the actions of this group. The heart and soul of NSRD was Hardijs Lediņš who made experiments with music and sound as well as Juris Boiko, who was the author of texts and conceptions.
Conception was worked out for all the actions made by NSRD . The great part of the group's performances was connected with music and sound. They occurred in the manner of unusual concerts, where sound was made with the help of music instruments and different objects of everyday life. Parallel with the concert they did quite incomprehensible actions for the public: they boiled blackberry dumplings on an electrical stove, wrapped up people into plastic or scattered flour on the audience. Hardijs Lediņš was wearing a grey overcoat and sunglasses the glasses of which were colored red.
Juris Boiko was the creator and the chief of Doctor`s Eneser`s Courses of Binocular Dances. The aim of these courses was to teach people to dance eye dances. In different enterprises they were showing video piece of two, graphically drawn eyes that closed and opened one after another or both the same time. In the background there was heard meditative music and Doctor`s Eneser`s voice that gave instructions to the eye dancers: “Eyes open, eyes close, one open, one close.” If the dancer did this dance right, then it was relaxing. Later Hardijs Lediņš taught eye dances in different Riga night-clubs, where he worked as a DJ.
NSRD is also remarkable for their Walks to Bolderāja that Hardijs Lediņš and Juris Boiko did every year from 1980 till 1987 and in 2001. They occurred every year in a different month and with different people. The walk always started from the house of Hardijs Lediņš in Imanta (region of Riga ). The participants walked on the railroad out of the city, came to suburbs with little gardens, then walked in the forest, then in big meadows till they reached industrial region. Walks to Bolderāja were like personal rites. During them the walk stopped for a while in different places and the participants did symbolic actions: sang songs about Bolderāja, played music instruments, read poems or ate boiled eggs. They always organized walks so that the participants could see the rising or the setting of the sun.
Generally the performances made by NSRD can be characterized as good-natured, childish, naïve and simple which made them true and touching.