June 9-15 2010 Iris Smeds participated in the project Friend Ship, a boat that crossed the Baltic Sea with performance artists from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. During the turn of the journey they stopped in every artists' country where they organised performances. On the boat trip Smeds interviewed the artists about how they view art and its economical value, their own careers and themselves as possible commodities. When the boat arrived in Stockholm Iris Smeds performed at Alida Ivanov Gallery where she presented the participating artists as investment objects. The exhibition Mental Event Tour- The Show is a compilation of the inteviews and also a documentation of Smeds' performance

Participating artists in the performance: Tara Pattenden-Fail, Christina Georgiou, Zane Matule, Gatis Vectirāns, Andrus Joonas Christine Fentz..

Documentation