Lake Studios Berlin

drawing sketches – Yasmine Lindskog Visanko

In each moment we are changing, different from one moment to the next, trying to grasp a sense of a form that never fixes. Who are we amid these shifting sketches? Our maps with uncertain lines? A map that shifts its edge in the face of the present. drawing sketches is a series of solos based in real-time composition seeking to archive these infinite selves—this shape-shifting map held between my two hands. It is a practice of knowing the self more deeply, of uncovering new edges, new hues, new terrain within the body.

Doli – Masha Shalagina & Nino Dava

Choreography/Concept: Masha Shalagina
Music: Nino Dava

The live performance piece Doli explores the tension between distance and belonging through movement and live sound. Rooted in their personal experiences of migration and dislocation, choreographer/dancer Masha Shalagina and composer/live music performer Nino Dava search for a space where traditional forms can be reimagined—neither fixed in the past nor severed from it. Trying to overcome the inviolability of tradition, artists approach folk art not as a complete shape, but moving and transformable entity. Partly precomposed and partly improvised, the piece is structured around defined rhythmical phrases, with the live accordion shaping the relationship between sound and movement.

1000 Tears – Alexa Wilson

Music: Lana Del Rey (Us against the world), Enemy (Imagine Dragons & JID), Alexa Wilson, Justin Timberlake (My Love), Sevdaliza (Human)

“1000 Tears” embodies a double meaning of crying and cutting (referring to death by 1000 paper cuts) framed as a performance art dance and feminist critique of a climate that cushions psychopathic and undermining modes of being. Using pink (wet) blankets, costumes and textiles and silver/gold/clear textiles (emergency blankets/wrapping paper) this performance engages movement, dangerous objects and performance art as actions reflecting internalised unsaid psychological warfare to unpack micro-aggressions framed as friendly care/beauty within social politics against an overwhelming backdrop of political intensity. It is a ritualised tearing apart and alchemising or healing of disempowering ideologies and experiences.

New development in New York City, created @ Brooklyn Art Exchange and Triskelion Arts in development. Presented Triskelion Arts 2024, developed further on residency at Mothership NYC and presented at Last Frontier March and April 2025.

SAINT M – Beatrix Joyce

Performer: Marcos Nacar
Music: William Byrd, Maria Coma, Beyoncé

Who’s going to save you now?
Drawing on religious figures from medieval history, the artists create a modern-day, flawed equivalent of a saint in the character of “Saint M”. Saint M considers himself a martyr, a man with a holy mission. He has an important message for the world – but no one seems to be listening. Meanwhile, “his faithful Assistant”, inspired by an AI assistant, shapeshifts between the roles of secretary, interviewer, therapist, coach, follower, fan.Saint M and his faithful Assistant question today’s crises that unsettle our souls: the loss of faith in the future and in humanity, the role of the artist in a world falling apart, the invasion of artificial intelligence, and the need for the sacred, the holy, and the divine in a cynical, post-truth present.At the core of the research is a queering of the gaze: who is looking at whom? Who is in control? And who do we look to, in our time of need?

like…what do you mean? – Emily Heath

I gravitate towards gesture in my work because I believe it is the most transparent way to be understood. I desire to be understood. When I trip and fall over words, the articulations of my hands, and a tilt of my head catches me. I am continually investigating what all these subtle gestures mean. I am compulsively making meaning. This work is a resistance to the cognitive habit of codifying my shape, rhythm, and texture. I am deconstructing, unraveling, and messy. Awakening to the wild fundamental knowledge within my body before god.

Inspiration taken from movement, music, media, and literary sources;
Butoh dance of darkness
“Perverts” Ethel Cain
“De Selby (Part 1)” Hozier
“Back in Town” Florence + The Machine “Fleabag” Phoebe Waller-Bridge
“Heretic” Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
“Calling A Wolf A Wolf” Kaveh Akbar
“Saint” Sierra Simone
“Sinner” Sierra Simone
“When Women Were Birds” Terry Tempest Williams