Biography

Karolin Poska is a Estonian-based artist, choreographer, and performance maker working at the intersection of movement, objects, and perception. Through her creative activities, she tries to satisfy her voracious curiosity, thirst for discovery, hunger for experiences, and to understand what it is like to be alive nowadays.

Poska is currently a PhD researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she explores glitch as an artistic strategy rather than a mistake. Through site-specific performance, she uses disruption, error, and instability to open new creative pathways and challenge linear ways of thinking.

Poska’s performances have been presented at festivals across Europe, including Switzerland, Finland, Greenland, Germany, and beyond. Her works "For Your Nirvana" (2020) and "Untitled" (2021) were nominated for the Estonian Theatre Awards, and she received the Best Young Artist Award for her MA in Contemporary Art.

Artistic project

Working title: Spatial mischef

This site-specific performance occurs in liminal public spaces such as waiting areas in airports, harbours, and bus terminals, exploring locations that function both as corridors of travel and as sites of meaningful meetings and reunions.

Through performative actions, spatial interventions, and carefully placed glitches, I seek to introduce small gestures of malfunction into a site. Subtly bending or misaligning familiar spatial codes, the performance creates temporary cracks in the logic of public environments. Within these cracks, new perspectives and ways of perceiving the space can emerge.

Participants experience the work through a site-specific voice call, during which I guide them in the space and invite them to observe the performance. Through guided instructions, I lead participants to notice both what is visible and invisible in a space

Format: performance

Size of audience: 15 people maximum

Specific location: waiting areas in airports, harbours, railway stations, bus terminals

Timing/duration: 40 to 60 minutes