BIO
Intermedia artist, performer, narrator, wanderer, nomad, visionary. S_he graduated film studies at the Jagiellonian University (2016; thesis The (un)ceasing histories. About the word, which enacts a work of art, about the word, which becomes a work of art, under the supervision of Prof. Andrzej Pitrus, PhD.) and the art of intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (2021; Master's diploma project entitled Novacene and a text entitled Solilokwium, 2021, created at the Master Studio of Conceptual Art under the supervision of Prof. Artur Tajber, PhD.). S_he underwent two scholarships abroad at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin (UdK, performance and new media) and the University of Fine Arts in Belgrade (FPU, book design). S_he is an author of video works, performances, site-specific installations, conceptual choreographies, poetic and critical texts, actions in the public and social space. In her art projects, s_he also uses new technologies (XR, AI, GPS). S_he has been showing her work and performances during numerous exhibitions, residencies, laboratories and performance art festivals in Europe, including Austria, Germany, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal (a. o. Triennial of New Media Art in Belgrade 2019, IX Young Triennial in Orońsko 2020, Parque del Sol in St. Pölten, Transart Communication Budapest — Bratislava 2018). S_he received an artistic scholarship from the Federal State of Lower Austria (performative arts, 2020, and an Artistic Scholarship of the President of the City of Cracow (intermedia art, 2021).
S_he is also involved in popularization and didactic activities in the field of: experimental film (an authorial series of shows of French avant-garde cinematography from the 1920s CINEMA AND WINE); performance art and extended choreography (lectures, courses and workshops "ALEATORIC TRANS / ACTIONS. Different ways of traversing spaces” and “NOT ISLAND NOT or undersleeping"), as well as journalism and coaching (IKIGAI sessions). S_he is the co-author of the book of 1000 films that make up cinema history, awarded by the Polish Film Institute, edited by Piotr Kletowski. S_he mentally lives by the ocean, in the Portuguese town of Vila Nova de Gaia, with which the relationship is not indifferent to her (new) identity NOVA YÕU 優. In 2018, s_he officially changed her family surname to the name of Nova, starting the "Nova family", a new line, and creating the character and the alter ego of NOVA 0.0.0.0. (self-created identity), inaugurating, in this gesture, her broadly shown project of Novacene.
PORTFOLIO 2016-2020
STATEMENT
I am fascinated by the causative power of language in the context of interspecific communication and ways of building relationships by people, but also the status quo of
artwork and the process of constructing collective, eco-posthumanist identities (archipelagos). Broadly understood issues of identity — identity (or liquid identity) as an art medium, a construct, or a product in liquid modernity — have become the starting point for my current artistic and art-based-research projects, the subject of which, however, is extended to include topics related to the moving-body (for all the phenomena of walking, movement, choreography, social choreography), impressing a trace and the art of living (ökologische Lebenskunst) in an era of novacene. I explore these topics within a framework of the current archive project which I call a LIME TREE. Different ways of traversing spaces, which is overwriting previous works/identities I have created, the NOVA 0.0.0.0. (self-created identity), as if SUPERNOVA 2.0 — ecological collective identity. The above works are often social, formal and cognitive experiments.
I am acting within areas of art such as — performance, video, site-specific installation, seanse, storytelling (narrations), experience, action in the public and social space, choreography — working with thought, word, gesture, body and object. The activities that inspire me the most are communing, conversation, interpersonal stimulation. I like to work inspired by specific places and circumstances. I only create works and/or situations, when their implementation feels necessary to me. The issue of ecology of work and content production is fundamental for me.
EDUCATION
2021 MA, Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Intermedia Department, intermedia art (project entitled Novacene and essay entitled Solilokwium), Concept Art Studio, supervisor Prof. Artur Tajber PhD., reviewer Dr Mariusz Front
2016 BA, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, culture studies, film studies, (BA thesis: “The (un)ceasing histories. About the word, which enacts a work of art, about the word, which becomes a work of art”), supervisor Prof. Andrzej Pitrus PhD., reviewers: prof. Andrzej Pitrus. PhD., Anna Nacher PhD., prof. UJ
2019 February — June, University of Arts in Belgrad (FPU), book design (CEEPUS FREEMOVER); under the supervision of Prof. Olivera Batajić Sretenović
2018-2019 University of Arts in Berlin (UdK), Performance and New Media (ERASMUS+); under the supervision of Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2021 Łaźnia Nowa Theater / Utopia Home. International Center of Empathy, Cracow (PL), artistic residency
2021 Vila Nova de Gaia / Rota Vincentina (PT), artistic residency / artistic / research trip
2021 One Language Theater Laboratory, NAWIA, Berlin (DE), laboratory
2021 "Mapping the New Mobility #Cres", CEEPUS artistic residency in Cres (CRO)
2021Creative Scholarship of the President of the City of Cracow (PL), (intermedia art)
2020 Artistic Scholarship of the Lower Austria Country (AT), (performative arts)
2020 LAMES| Kultur und Kunstverein in St Pölten (AT), artistic residency
2019 University of Arts in Belgrad (SRB) (CEEPUS FREEMOVER)
2018-2019 University of Arts in Berlin (DE) (ERASMUS+)
2018/2019 Rector’s Award for the best students (PL)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE, INITIATIVES
2021 “ALEATORIC TRANS/ACTIONS. Different ways of traversing spaces”, authorial workshops of performance art / transmedia, LAMES | Kultur und Kunstverein, St. Pölten (AT)
2021Ecological performative walks 1 : 1 „SPA 11111 | aleatoric choreography”, different cities (continued project)
2018 “ALEATORIC TRANS/ACTIONS. Different ways of traversing spaces”, authorial workshops of performance art / transmedia, MOK Żory (PL)
2017 “Felicjanek Street Project”, an initiative in the social space, Felicjanek street, Cafe Szafe, Massolit Books&Cafe, Cracow (PL)
2011-2012 “CINEMA & WINE”/ “Backward, but forward”, series of movie screenings in cooperation with Migawka Club and Artefakt Cafe, Cracow (PL)
WORKSHOPS PARTICIPANT
2020 Parque del i-SOL-ation 2020, Performance Art Workshops, Sankt Pölten (AT)
2019 Seminar and workshop with Maja Smrekar, University of Art in Belgrade (SRB)
2019 ARTificial Friendship, Kollizionen Projekt; leading: Anna Volkland, Işıl Eğrikavuk, HZT, Universität der Kunste (DE)
2018 Performance art workshop with Carlos Tejo, Intermedia Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow (PL)
2018 Performance art workshop with Vest&Page, National Art. Gallery, Sopot (PL)
2017 Theather Workshop with Marek Kościuszko, Intermedia Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow (PL)
2016 Pantomime Theather workshop with Anna Nabiałkowska i Mariusz Sikorski with final presentation at Crikoteka. Museum of Tadeusz Kantor, Cracow (PL)
2017 Performance art workshop with Waldemar Tatarczuk with a final presentation at Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
2016 Performance art workshop with Wojciech Kosma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL)
2015 Performance art workshop by Ana Borralho i João Galante, Studio Theater, Warsaw (PL)
2014 Performance art workshop with Wojciech Ziemilski
2012 Tadeusz Kantor theater workshop with actress of CRICOT 2 theater, with a final piece based on “Marriage” play of N. Gogol at Cricoteka. Museum of Tadeusz Kantor, Cracow (PL)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SOLO PERFORMANCES
2021 Łaźnia Nowa Theater / Utopia Home. International Center of Empathy, Cracow (PL), your_spa or an island. Aleatoric choreography
2020 Parque del iSOLation, LAMES Kultur und Kunstverein, Sankt Pölten (AT), not island not, curator Andre Fraenzl
2019 Pamoja, Księgarnia / Wystawa Gallery, Cracow (PL), 11111 birth/day
2019 Ostavinska Gallery, Belgrad (SRB), curator: Marija Kadelburg, Hiatus | 11011
2019 Cracow Art Week, Opcja Gallery, Cracow (PL), curator Mariusz Sołtysik, 11111 | aleatoric choreography
2019 Kollizionen-Week Final Presentation, HZT Berlin (DE) If I will close my eyes, will you tell me the whole truth?
2018 9. International Online Performance Art Festival, Cracow (PL), curators: Sandra Božić and Dragan Strunjaš, I don’t have any time to lose: pacing piece
2018 „Nadmiar Miłości” Festival, Warsztat Club, Cracow (PL), curators Katarzyna Zawada i Arkadiusz Dec, Monica: comfort Zone
2018 Transart Communication Festival, Performance Boat Bratislava-Budapest (SVK, HUN), curator Rokko Juhász, Let’s meet on the other side, Let’s talk, Birthday
2018 Cracow Weekend Gallery, Opcja Gallery, Intermedia Art Department, Cracow (PL) curators: Mariusz Sołtysik i Tomasz Matuszak, Marriage Vow 0
2018 7. International Online Performance Art Festival, Cracow (PL), curators Sandra Božić and Dragan Strunjaš, I don’t have any time to lose: sitting piece
2018 VI International Bipolar Performance Artist Meeting “YOUNG&YANK”, National Gallery of Arty, Sopot (PL), curator Arti Grabowski, Re:performance
2017 6. International Online Performance Art Festival, Cracow (PL), curators: Sandra Božić and Dragan Strunjaš, Breathless
2017 EKO TECHNO ARTMOBIL, Bednarski’s Park, Cracow (PL), curators: Grzegorz Biliński, Alicja Duzel-Bilińska, Marta Błachut, Triptych
2017 Potencja Gallery, Cracow (PL), curator Cyryl Polaczek, I am U
2016 □□□□□ Szptalna 1 Club, Cracow (PL), coordinator Roman Dziadkiewicz, Initiation
2016 Feniks Club, Academy of Theater Arts, Cracow (PL), Transmogrifying
GROUP PERFORMANCES
DIRECTING
2021 “Poliloquy”, Re:kultura Gallery, Cracow (PL); performers: Szymon Dittmar, Konrad Gruca, Natalia Jaguś, Katarzyna Kucharska, Łukasz Roth, Marcin Szafrański, Lena Witkowska
2018 “A song”, performance realized as experimental movie / video art, in collaboration with the AMA Film Academy (co-director Quentina Von Heydn Lynch, performers: Mariusz Boćkowski, Maciej Goliński, Marcin Lewandowski, Łukasz Nowak, Maria Nova, Łukasz Pracki, Julia Szczęsna, Łukasz Zych)
2016 “Transmogrifying”, Theater Academy, Cracow (PL); performers: Filip Franczak, Daria Kubisiak, Joanna Połeć)
PARTICIPATION
2019 “Throw the forest wilderness”, Wansensee Forest Berlin (DE), curator Petra Stegmann, performing the work Implant. The plant in me by Reinera Maria Matysik
2018 VI International Bipolar Performance Artist Meeting “YOUNG&YANK”, National Gallery of Arty, Sopot (PL), curator Arti Grabowski, Mother (HOME V), Collective performance opera of the HOME cycle by VestAndPage
2017 Museum of Conemporary Art, Warsaw (PL), Wojciech Kosma, Emotional reality, curator Magdalena Lipska
2016 Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw (PL), final presentation after a workshop with Waldemar Tatarczuk
2016 Cricoteka, Cracow (PL), final presentation after a workshop with Anna Nabiałkowska i Mariuszem Sikorski
2015 Body/Mind Festival, Studio Thater, Warsaw (PL), Ana Borralho and João Galante, Sexy mf
2012 Cricoteka, Cracow (PL) final presentation after a workshop with Ludmiła Ryba and Marie Veyssier
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 “NOVACEN 2.0”, Łaźnia Nowa Theater / Utopia Home. International Center of Empathy, Cracow (PL), curator Dominik Stanisławski
2021 “as if SUPERNOVA 2.0. archeology | choreography of waiting”, Cracow Photomonth FRINGE, Re:Kultura Gallery, Cracow (PL), curators: Patrycja Filarska, Maja Pasternak
2021 „NOVACEN”, Re:Kultura Gallery, Cracow (PL), curators: Alicja Gołyźniak an Marcin Szafrański
2019 “Hiatus | 11011”, Ostavinska Gallery, Belgrade (SRB), curators MI Kadelburg
2016 “O”, Opcja Gallery Intermedia Department, Cracow (PL), curator Mariusz Sołtysik
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, AUTHORSHIP
2021 “Wysokie Loty“, MOS / ASP Gallery, Cracow (PL), 11111 | Aleatoric choreography, curators: Joanna Zemanek, Bogumił Książek, Przemysław Wideł, (video)
2021"It didn't happen!”, "Saša Marčeta" Foundation, Belgrad (SRB), curators: Dušan Radovanović, Milica Lapčević, Neda Kovinić and Miloš Peškir, Nova family (photography)
2021 FK-Kollektiv Foto Klub, Berlin, 11111 | Aleatoric choreography (photography)
2020 9. Young Triennale in Orońsko, “So long as we still live”, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, curator Marta Czyż, NOVA 0.0.0.0., as if SUPERNOVA 2.0 (concept works presented as installations)
2020 Parque del iSolation, LAMES | Kultur und Kunstverein, Sankt Polten (AT), curator: Andi Fraenzl, NOVA 0.0.0.0. (concept work)
2020 “Connection”, OS17 Gallery, Stetin (PL), In/visible stories. About how you became my mother (sound/video installation)
2019 Triennial of Multimedia Art, Expanded Media and New Media Art, Belgrad (SRB), curator Miroslav Lazovic, NOVA 0.0.0.0. (concept work presented as installation)
2019 “Opcja ulotna”, Opcja Gallery, Cracow Art Week, Cracow (PL), curator Mariusz Sołtysik, 11111 | aleatoric choreography (performance, video documentation)
2018 “Can you feel it?”, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow (PL), curator Lidia Krawczyk, Marriage Vow 0 (video), A song | trailer of a non-existing film (experimental film based on performativity experience, in collaboration with Quentina von Haydn Lynch)
2018 “Na Styku” , Galeria ASP in Łódź (PL), curators: Mariusz Sołtysik, Tomasz Matuszak, Marriage Vow 0 (video)
2018 “Multimedia Trans”, Literacka Cafe, Cracow (PL), led by Mateusz Grymek from MULTImedia Group, Transmogrifying (video performance)
2018 “Multimedia Niepodległa”, Klub Hevre, Cracow (PL), led by Mateusz Grymek from MULTImedia Group, Triptych (performance video documentation)
2018 “Na Styku”, Opcja Gallery, Intermedia Department, Cracow (PL), curators: Mariusz Sołtysik, Tomasz Matuszak, NOVA 0.0.0.0. (conceptual work), Marriage Vow 0 (video-installation), Those are your thoughts about me (installation, object), Family self-portrait outdoor (video-installation)
2018 “I dreamed about the world in X color”, Opcja Gallery, Intermedia Department, Cracow (PL), A mortal dream
2018 “Multimedia Sprzeciw”, Pauza Gallery, Cracow (PL), curator Mateusz Grymek (Grupa MULTImedia), Sunday Walkings with Fela (performance video documentation)
2017 “First emission”, Sygnał Niesystematyczny Gallery, Cracow (PL), Arrara (participative action in collaboration with Marta Baron)
PUBLICATIONS
TRANSLATION
2021 „eleWATOR. Kwartalnik literacko-kulturalny” nr 36 (2-4/2021), translation from English of the text and performance by Sally-Shakti Willow & Joe Evans “Unfinished Dream”, ed. Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer
AUTHORIAL TEXTS
2021 Blok Magazine, „Hopes for the Future of Art.”, as if Supernova 2.0 | ecological collective identity. On the need of creating s e l f in the context of biocrises in realities
2020 9 Youang Triennial, exhibition catalogue, Centre of the Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, as if Supernova 2.0 | ecological collective identity. On the need of creating s e l f in the context of biocrises in reality
2020 “1000 films that make up cinema history”, edition by Piotr Kletowski (I am the publication’s co-author )
VISUAL WORKS
2021 “eleWATOR. Kwartalnik literacko-kulturalny” no. 36 (2-4/2021) (authorial translation of the videoperformance by Sally-Shakti Willow)
2020 “I need a lobotomy”, zin by Among Scratches, NOVA 0.0.0.0., Inahbiting white… (concept work, pfotography)
2019 MULTImedia FOTOSYNTEZA, Who is crying with whose tears? (gif), ed. Mateusz Piesowicz
2018 CYBER PUSSY ZIN, NOVA 0.0.0.0. (concept work)
2018 MULTImedia TRANS, Transmogrifying (videoperformance), ed. Mateusz Piesowicz
2018 MULTImedia NIEPODLEGŁA, Triptych (videoperformance), ed. Mateusz Piesowicz
2018 Wiadomości ASP, O (videoinstallation)
INTERVIEWS, MEDIA APPEARANCES
2021 Intermedia.Exe, Open Eyes Art Festival, livestreaming (talk with Romanem Dziadkiewicz)
2020 Campus & City Radio St. Pölten (AT), interview
2018 „Alternatywne Wiadomości ASP”, Remember me. Rozmowa Natalii Cikowskiej z Marią Novą (interview)
REVIEWS (about me)
2020 Parque del iSOLation, exhibition catalouge, LAMES Kultur und Kunstverein, St. Pölten (AT)
2020 Miej Miejsce, „Trzeci wymiar kryzysu. 9 Young Triennial in Orońsko”, Marta Królak (a review of the exhibition of 9 Young Triennial in Orońsko)
2019 Wiadomości ASP, nr 86, „Opcja ulotna”, Mariusz Sołtysik (a review of the exhibition of „Opcja ulotona”)
2018 Wiadomości ASP, nr 82, „Skromny Jubileusz, czyli opowiedzieć ci historię?”, Mariusz Sołtysik (a review of the exhibition of O)
