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Frozen puddle portals / on a gloomy walk with my memory bag / Latvian November void / potent apple blossom buds / stealing from supermarket Maxima / peeling skin of my tongue while licking icicles / failing infrastructure project debts / springtime craving / Western goods / sticky sweet human / our theatre at a newly built – abandoned central station /

Petals Sprouting Out of Skin unfolds as a speculative performance space—an embodied landscape of belonging and alienation. It is agray zone giving rise to region-specific beings that carry Eastern European and Baltic artefacts, here the boundaries of the human soften and merge with the surroundings. Gravitating in the post-socialist, Baltic sea region particularity “Petals Sprouting from the Skin” drifts through internalised regional conditioning and socio-economical brokenness and searches for softness within it.

It is  a gentle reimagining of ways to function in the familiar phisical and cultural surroundings —a place for staying with the discomfort throught being in it. Shifting throught peripheral, feminine and queer bodies, it marks the beginning of a gentle reimagining for new forms of relating and sense-making throught inviting poetic ways of inhabiting spaces and our bodies.

The work is made together with artists Laine Luīze Freidenberga and Ģirts Dubults reflecting on whether cultural belonging and relation points between us three overlap – while each having our own personal or profesional relation to Stockholm we share orgins from Latvia. We try to intersect within ourselves what meanings this orgin carries, whether we can find each other in it, where we expirience disconnection and conflict, what parts of our orgins are destructive and and what social behaviours we want to unlearn and what we find precious in our situatedness and wouldn’t want to give up to more westernised contexts.