Petals Sprouting Out Of Skin

When: 4 June 18:00, 45 min
Where: Valhallavägen 189, D-teater 
Free entrace, no pre-booking

Frozen puddle portals, on a gloomy walk with my memory bag, Latvian void, ripening apple blossoms, to the Maxima and back, licking icicles, failing infrastructure projects, springtime craving, goods from the West, sticky sweet human, rippled concrete surface, our theatre at an abandoned station.

Petals Sprouting Out of Skin unfolds as a speculative performance space—an embodied landscape of belonging and alienation. Here, the boundaries of the human soften and merge with the surroundings, giving rise to region-specific beings that carry Eastern European and Baltic artefacts. It is a search for new ways of connecting to the cityscapes—a process of molding the evanescent into the figurines of the new. It is a start for a gentle reimagining of cultural landscapes, through the margins of identity, into the terrains of becoming.

BIO
Beate Poikāne is a visual artist, director and a scenographer from Riga, Latvia.
Her artistic explorations manifest in various forms—crossing the boundaries of visual art and contemporary theatre, creating self-performing environments and performances with nuanced visuality. Poikāne’s work delves into the relationship between imaginative exercises and spatial experience. She investigates how formations of fantasy relate to embodied experiences of physical and cultural environments, constructing spaces where composition is driven by sequences of spatial and sculptural elements. Through the lens of worlding, she gradually turns toward narrative and speculative fiction, reflecting on the revision of the female perspective in the post-Soviet cultural landscape of contradictions and complexities, seeking more refined ways of relating to it. Her work engages in a dialogue with shifting hierarchies of theatre elements, focusing on extended, mediated ensembles touching upon the potentialities of post-human theatre. Beate mainly works in theatre, installation and video. 
https://beate.poikane.com

Participants
Concept, directing: Beate Poikane
Artistic collaborators:
Ģirts Dubults
Laine Luīze Freidenberga 

Thank you
My heartfelt thanks go first to my artistic collaborators Ģirts Dubults and Laine Luīze Freidenfelde for your trust and creative engagement. Thanks to all my fellow students and teachers at the MA Performing Arts program for their support and the many enriching conversations we've shared. Special thanks to Synne Behrndt, our program leader, for her invaluable input, and to my supervisor, Christina Lindgren, for her guidance. I also want to thank everyone who generously supported me with practical help, making it possible for me to pursue this education