FrostBite 

April 29, 8pm – April 30, 5am

Venue: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga

 

FrostBite performance concept, scenography, costumes and choreography by Jette Loona Hermanis and Anna Ansone

Performers: Jette Loona Hermanis, Anna Ansone, Krišjānis Elviks

Polyclay objects and poster by Sofija Frančeska Putniņa

Prosthetics by Martina Gofman

Soundscape mixed by Jette Loona Hermanis

 

Timetable:

19:45 Doors (through courtyard)

20:00 FrostBite performance (sharp)

21:00 Marta Ansone

22:00 MATCHA

23:00 laikamtoms][({…j…})

00:00 Jette Loona Hermanis

01:30 Skyler

3:00 b2b

05:00 END

 

WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS WILL BE USED DURING THE PERFOMANCES!

 

Entry ticket: 7 euros (cash)

A bar will be open during the evening. 

 

 

Kim? Contemporary Art Centre together with the FrostBite team is pleased to invite you to the performance act followed by a club night on April 29th. All proceedings collected from entry tickets will go directly to the artists, musicians and other creatives involved in this otherwise unpaid creative labor.

 

FrostBite is a performative act on infantile games, nurture and role-play within an aestheticised universe, where naivete is an advantage. Portraying empathy-induced characters that shift between juvenile and mature roles. A performance situated in a frame under the logic of the “house” game. 

 

Three performers (+ a root) that seem to seek thrill by varying between embodying different stages of human development: The Infant, The Child, The Adolescent, The Adult.

 

These stages are signified with symbolic skin scarrings that each performer possesses:

The God’s Eye – Creator energy – The Infant

The Teardrop – The gift of consciousness – The Child

The Spiral – The disruptive energy signifying the process – The Adolescent

The Doughnut – The end product, shape in its final form – The Adult

 

They are bound to stage numerous circumstances that revolve around parenting the object of care, which fluctuates between the performers, and a bizarrely deformed river root, that they have chosen to supervise as their own child.  

 

The dynamic between the performers constantly morphs into new dimensions, as they find themselves restless in needing to fantasize new realities to navigate. 

 

A score that can function only through utterly committing to the delusion.

 

 

Biographies

 

Anna Ansone is a Riga based visual artist who graduated from the Department of Stage Design at the Art Academy of Latvia. Her background lies in costume and set design for video works and stage. Her artform is influenced from a place where borderline tendencies develop into a sacral uniform.

 

Krišjānis Elviks is a scenographer and interdisciplinary artist based in Riga, Latvia. His work combines such media as scenography, video, installation, performance and text. In the center of his artistic practice is “thinking in space”, which results in audio-visual exhibitions and performances. 

 

Sofija Frančeska Putniņa a.k.a. persefon is a Latvian multi-media artist who mainly focuses on sculpting and art direction, exploring sensitivity in the grotesque and fantastical, otherworldly subjects.

 

Martina Gofman is an illustrator working in the field of graphic design and makeup. In the latter, the main focus is prosthetic and theatrical makeup for creating unworldly characters with modified bodies.

 

Jette Loona Hermanis, pulsing Baltic blood, is a performance artist, choreographer, and performer, born in 1997. After finishing her studies in SNDO Choreography in Amsterdam, she has since been based in Tallinn and Riga. She received the Estonian Theatre Prize Dance Award 2022 with Johhan Rosenberg for their work Eden Detail. Her work often animates the body through a digital veil. 

 

Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia

Acknowledgements: Kristians Aglonietis, Diana Payton, Juula Miia Hermanis, Matiss Rucko