Hugarflug annual conference on artistic research
11. - 12. September 2025
Iceland University of the Arts
This research explores the concept of the glitch not as a technical malfunction, but as a creative strategy in performance-making—one that disrupts normative structures and rhythms. I approach glitch both as an artistic method and an artist position: a way of engaging with the world that questions form, function, and experience. As an artist, I sometimes perceive myself as a glitch in society—an unexpected shift within the system, like a gold tooth, a fracture, or a hiccup. In the context of my doctoral work, the glitch is not a flaw to be fixed, but a deliberately induced disruption of spatial, social, cultural, or performative structures. It becomes a tool for resistance, imagination, and playful exploration in performance-making. Like a parkour artist who turns obstacles into launch points, I use glitch to reimagine how we move through and make sense of the world.
Karolin Poska
Artist
Karolin Poska is a Tallinn-based artist, choreographer, performance artist, and dancer. Her creative work is driven by an insatiable curiosity, a thirst for discovery, and a desire to explore what it means to be alive in a given moment. She enjoys playing with objects, transforming reality, and subverting the audience’s expectations. Poska is currently immersed in PhD research at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she is investigating the creative potential of glitch—not as a flaw, but as a deliberate strategy to open up unexpected pathways in artistic processes.
Her performances For Your Nirvana (2020) and Untitled (2021) were both nominated for the Estonian Theatre Awards, and she was honored with the Best Young Artist Award for her MA in contemporary art.
