Lenka Novakova is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Montreal.   Born in the Czech Republic, she received her undergraduate degree in sculpture from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and her masters in video installation and interdisciplinary practices from Concordia University in Montreal. Currently, she is pursuing research/creation PhD in Humanities, positioning her work interdisciplinary between Theatre, Cinema and Computation Arts. Her current research is looking at crossovers between theatre and interactive installation with focus on positioning performance within redefined notions of space. She has been recipient of numerous fellowships, awards and has an active exhibition record in Canada, USA and abroad. Selected Fellowships from: The Coring Museum of Glass, Urban Glass, Vermont Studio Center or La Chambre Blanche in Quebec and Santa Fe Art Institute. Selected projects with: Integral Sao Paulo-Quebec, SASC Sao Paulo, Brazil, DMZ festival in Korea, Gallery Puls, Alvik, Norway and USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway.

 

June 1 – June 4, 2015:

6^th Annual Conference of Visual and Performing Arts, Athens, Greece, ‘Space as Performance: Optical Architectures of Cinematic Spaces’

 

April 8 – April 11, 2015:

Institute of Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Re-visioning Space(s), Time and Bodies Conference, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, ‘Unfolding Baroque: F O L D – Performative Environment and Performance’

 

March 13 – March 14, 2015:

Re-Originality: Concordia’s 2015 Annual Interdisciplinary Conference,  Lighting Round, Concordia University, Montreal: ‘F O L D: Space as Performance’

 

March 5, 2015:

Hexagram, 180 SEC, Concordia University, Montreal, QC Research-Creation Talk 

 

January – March, 2015:

Theatre Gargantua, Round Table, Toronto, ON, Canada