Jette Loona Hermanis is an Estonian and Latvian performance artist, choreographer and performer. After finishing her studies in Choreography SNDO Amsterdam, she has since been based in Tallinn, Riga and Berlin. With Johhan Rosenberg, she received the Dance Award at the Estonian Theatre Awards 2022 for their work Eden Detail. Her work often animates the body through a digital veil.

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 and stage works. Her artistic practice comes from a place where borderline tendencies develop into a sacral uniform.

“A score that can function only through utterly committing to the delusion”: that is Jette Loona Hermanis’ FrostBite. A seemingly convoluted, nuclear world of winter, populated by polyclay works of artist Sofija Frančeska Putniņa and a peculiar family consisting of three people and a root. But it doesn’t take long until we start to recognise ourselves behind the skin prosthetics (by Martina Gofman) and the alien-seeming make-up, until their strange educational methods resemble the rituals that we like to impose on ourselves and each other on the daily. The eccentric way in which Hermanis and her co-performers Anna Ansone and Krišjānis Elviks “play house” makes palpable how our desire for pre-installed roles and rules control even our deepest and most abstruse fantasies.