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Liis Vares is a choreographer based in Tallinn and digital space, working in the overlap of performing and visual arts. Her practice focuses on embodied experience, spatial relations, and the shifting conditions of presence in physical, online, and mixed-reality environments. Her recent collaborations with Taavet Jansen and XR developer Norbert Pape include the mixed-reality works HELD IN HUMAN II: Rose in Your Brain (2024) and STILL MOVING (2024). She continues her long-term artistic practice, Anthropologies of Space, which examines how bodies, technologies, and environments co-shape attention and meaning.
Vares is a certified DanceAbility teacher and teaches improvisation, inclusive practice, and performance art at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy and the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Taavet Jansen is an artist-researcher exploring how digital and physical spaces can be interconnected. With a background in choreography and video art, he is now increasingly engaged in web-based art and the development of mixed-reality environments.
In recent years, his main research and artistic project, Held in Human, created in close collaboration with Liis Vares, has examined the artistic potential of hybrid spaces. Taavet also works as a lecturer at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, where he teaches creative coding and visual theatre. He is currently completing his PhD at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where his research focuses on creating a sense of aliveness and presence in streamed performance.
Website: vares.digital