Researcher Laine Kristberga laine.kristberga@lulfmi.lv

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8572-4400

A critical investigation of the evolution of performance art in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, tracing its transformations from unofficial and experimental practices during the late Soviet era to contemporary relational and institutional forms, with particular attention to processes of intermedial hybridisation

Keywords: Performance art; Baltic avant-garde; late socialism; Cold War culture; perestroika; cultural dissent; post-socialism; art and politics; intermedia; performance documentation; archival practices