Arina Frölich
Basel, Switzerland
Arina Frölich’s artistic practice engages with the subversion and examination of established societal norms and conventions, with a particular interest in how knowledge is produced. Her work is grounded in artistic research methodologies, which she approaches both as investigative tools and as artistic media in their own right. Frölich focuses on how artistic research methods produce knowledge and how their limits generate new questions for further inquiry. Central to her practice is improvisation with theatre, movement, and voice.
Improvisation functions as a research method in which themes are explored through embodied experience and action. These processes generate movement material, patterns, and observations that Frölich later develops into performative scenes or choreographic structures. Rather than seeking fixed conclusions, she works through cycles of trying, observing, and adjusting.
Frölich is particularly interested in the transformative potential of friendship. How can practices of friendship be understood as strategies of empowerment in times of sociopolitical crisis? Her focus lies on embodied practices of connection and agency.