Peer-review of Kristina Norman’s performance “The Dew Point”

Kristina Norman invites audiences to the English-language version of her performance The Dew Point at Kanuti Gildi Saal on 18 and 19 March at 19:30. The performance on 18 March will be followed by a public pre-review of the work as part of the artist’s doctoral project, provisionally titled Making strategic entanglements and inhabiting heterotopia within creative practice as research.

Reviewers: Victoria Donovan and Madli Pesti
Doctoral supervisor: Dr. Linda Kaljundi (Estonian Academy of Arts)

The central question of Norman’s research concerns the emancipatory potential of strategically interweaving life stories and spaces as a structure-generating method within her artistic practice. In her doctoral work, Norman aims to analyse and conceptualize how these entanglements of spaces and voices emerge and are activated through creative-practice-as-research, and how they contribute to the deconstruction and decolonization of existing narratives and environments.

The performance The Dew Point was developed around the concept of liminality, which has been extended to spatial and built environments, geographical contexts, everyday and historical experiences and practices, as well as collective historical memory. In this work, Norman employs the entanglement of testimonies and spaces connected to wars and militarism as a method for examining the enduring presence of Soviet militarism and its intergenerational impact.

Against the backdrop of ongoing and accelerating militarization, the piece explores the potential for creating shared sites of memory within a divided society by bringing together spatial environments and voices from different memory communities.

More information about the performance and tickets: https://saal.ee/en/performance/the-dew-point-2006/