The Dew Point is a documentary performance exploring the ambiguous value of security in times of (perpetual) war. At the heart of the project lies artist Kristina Norman’s personal process of renovating a Soviet-era sauna in the Estonian countryside with her father, who was a conscript in the Soviet army in 1977/78. Combining video documentation of the construction process with a retelling of her father’s stories through a live performer, the performance opens up the liminal experience in the Baltic region, both mental and physical, in which the dew point marks a potential moment of poetic transformation.
Kristina Norman (b. 1979, Tallinn) is an interdisciplinary artist working with video, installation, performance, and documentary formats, whose practice explores collective memory, public space, and the intersections between private experience and political history. She has represented Estonia at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and 2022.
