At the visit to Air Reservoir, a sanctuary for aerial beings, there lies a testament to our times. It is a place where the air itself bears the weight of a slow, unyielding catastrophe—a gradual disappearance of respiratory beings. You are invited into a space to witness a delicate death dance, where a performative respiratory ecosystem emerges from human-made remains and non-human beings. This landscape, powered by the possibilities of worlding, explores the differences and similarities between the human breathing system and that of a bird, an insect, or a snail. The dynamics of contrast are explored while confronting the limitations of the human body in relation to air.

ABOUT ARTIST
Beate Poikāne is a Latvian visual artist, theatre maker, and scenographer. Her artistic explorations manifest in various forms at the intersection of visual art and contemporary theatre, creating self-performing environments and visual performances. Thematically, she explores how imagination relates to the experience of space, investigating how the ideas of fictional worlds are linked to the perception of the physical world and the interpretation of the surrounding environment. Her works are in conversation with non-human performers, and shifting hierarchies of theatre elements. Spaces and sequences of sculptural objects are often at the centre of her compositions.She is currently pursuing MA degree in Performing Arts at Stockholm University of the Arts. She holds an MA in scenography and a BA in Visual communication from the Art Academy of Latvia, and as part of her studies she attended Performance and Time-based art programme at the KMD Art Academy in Bergen.

CAST
Author: Beate Poikāne
Performers: Sofija Putniņa and Kristers Krūms
Composer: Liza Kuzyakova
Voice: Linda Mence
Consultation: Laima Jaunzema
Producer: Ieva Briede (New Theatre Institute of Latvia)
The performance is part of EU Creative Europe project The Big Green residency ‘Nature as inspiration’