NORMAL BABYY

Normal Babyy is a Riga-based performance art duo composed of Elza Auguste Zīverte and Kristofers Knesis. Their collaborative work blends physical performance, sound, and conceptual experimentation to interrogate the structures—both visible and invisible—that shape perception, behavior, and meaning. Across a diverse body of work, they explore themes ranging from compulsion and self-identity (Hoarder, 2022), to randomness and cognitive patterning (Apophenia, 2023), electromagnetic force and psychological charge (Charge, 2023), and the paradoxes of automation and authorship (But, please, think outside the box, 2024).

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Their performances frequently question the boundaries between intention and influence, structure and improvisation, human agency and systemic control. In recent works, they have turned to sonic and affective atmospheres (Charged, 2024), emotional precarity (Dot, 2024), and speculative posthumanism (Material Values, 2025), the latter of which presents a critical reflection on institutional power and the illusion of autonomy. By positioning non-human forces—mechanical, material, algorithmic—as co-performers, Normal Babyy opens up inquiries into the nature of freedom, authority, and resistance within both artistic and social systems.