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.

Author: Beate Poikāne
Performers: Sofija Putniņa and Kristers Krūms
Composer: Liza Kuzyakova
Voice: Linda Mence
Consultation: Laima Jaunzema
Expert consutation: Dana Misiņa (acupuncturist), Tomas Kampmanis (expert of air pollution dispersion modeling, Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre (LEGMC), Vita Štelce (Air and Climate Department manager, LEGMC), Iveta Indriksone (monitoring department manager at LEGMC), Liene Ābele (Information and Analysis department manager at LEGMC), Evita Vītola (Department of Housing and Environment of the Riga State Municipality, Chief Specialist of the Environmental Monitoring Department of the Environmental Administration)
Producer: Ieva Briede (New Theatre Institute of Latvia)

The performance is part of EU Creative Europe project The Big Green residency ‘Nature as inspiration’. Supported by the State Cultural Capital Fund’s target program of grants for the promotion of creativity.