Petals Sprouting Out of Skin: Creating Imagery of Latvian and Eastern European Identity within a Devised Process

Beate Poikane

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Petals Sprouting Out of Skin: Creating Imagery of Latvian and Eastern European Identity within a Devised Process (2025)

Beate Poikane

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This artistic research project in Performing Arts SKH Stockholm University of Arts documents my transition from fine arts into a performative practice. I am focusing on developing a personal toolkit of methods that support this shift to a facilitator and a director/theatre-maker. The first part is my individual exploration that includes methods such as: creating character from image, writing with objects, and working with a real site in developing a semi-fictional space (exploring site-specificity through my observations and video documentation of Riga’s specific environment). The second part is a collaboration with two artists, Ģirts Dubults and Laine Luīze Freidenberga. We use a devised process concept,Sister Planets, to translate our embodied cultural experiences and identities into performative language. This method emphasises building shared poetics through methods of generating shared poems, visualisation, movement with objects, and integrating methods from the collaborators’ individual practices. Alongside methodological development, a strong interest in my identity as a maker emerged, deeply influencing my artistic inquiry. This stiltedness—as a young female artist from Latvia and Eastern Europe—shapes the themes of belonging and alienation in the Scandinavian cultural context and intersectionality in my work. I investigate how cultural, gendered, and geopolitical factors inform performance and dramaturgy. These personal reflections have evolved into shared thematic concerns within my collaborations, where individual histories and embodied memories merge into a collective exploration. Through this research, I seek new dramaturgical forms that channel socio-political narratives within primarily visual and poetic means of expression.

type	research exposition
keywords	Visual and Performing Arts, visual dramaturgy, Post-socialist cultural landscape, intersectionality, Post-human ensamble, material agency, visualisation, embodiment, Eastern Europian poetics, Siters planets
date	03/07/2025
published	20/10/2025
last modified	20/10/2025
status	published
affiliation	Stockholms konstnärliga högskola
copyright	Beate Poikāne
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3783258/3783259
published in	Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
portal issue	0. Published expositions
external link	https://beate.poikane.com

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