Peer-review of Kadri Liis Rääk’s creative project

On 9 January, from 15:30 to 17:00, Kadri Liis Rääk will have her third peer-reviewed event as a part of her doctoral studies with the creative project “The artist’s body as a sensory threshold” at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA), in room A202.

The peer-reviewers of the exhibition are Laura Põld and prof Esa Kirkkopelto.

The doctoral supervisor is dr Liina Unt.

Kadri Liis Rääk’s research is situated at the intersection of expanded scenography and speculative practices, offering an in-depth exploration of touch, affective attunement, and body–space relations. The third creative project, “The artist’s body as a sensory threshold”, focuses on embodied and sensory experience as a means of knowledge production within artistic practice.

The creative project unfolds the artist-researcher’s process through a heuristic unpacking presented in the form of a video journey. Rather than documenting a finished artwork, the video makes the movement of the research visible: introspective thought processes, forms of attunement shaped by neurodivergence, and the dynamic interplay between discovery and failure. At the core of the project is the artist’s performative withdrawal into a natural environment. The collapse of initial plans shifted the focus from expectation to the investigative activity itself, transforming the artist’s body into a sensory threshold where material-based making and spatial engagement converge. This approach places the creative process at the methodological centre, where negotiation with materials and sustained presence in a liminal in-between state give rise to unique, immediate forms of embodied knowledge.