EDUCATION:
2008-2014 PhD, Humanities (Performance Studies), Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal, QC . Thesis Title: (Un)Disciplined Bodies: Ascetic Transformation in Performance Art
2006-2008 M.A., Art History, Minor: Media Studies, Department of Visual Arts, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA. Thesis Title: Subversive Body in Performance Art
2000-2005 B.A. with Honours, Journalism and Public Relations, North-West Academy of Public Administration, Saint-Petersburg, Russia . Thesis Title: PR-gesture in Contemporary Art
PERFORMANCES ( SELECTED):
2022 It didn’t Start with You, performance, SKOL gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2022 Have a Voice, performance, Art Souterrain Festival, Montreal, QC, Canada
2022 Thank you for Your Company, performance, Latitudes Hybridas Festival, Santa
Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
2022 Fire, on-line performance, Lock Unlock performance Art Project, Braunschweig, Germany
2021 Brides, performance in collaboration with Exit/ Entry collective, POP Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
2020 The Multitude of Fear, Performance, P.E.P.A. Pequeño Evento de Performance Art ONLINE, Madrid, Spain, New York City, USA, 2020
2020 Wandering Women, Performances and Installation, Laboratoire Performance, La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse, Montreal, QC
2020 The Sun Stands Still, video performance presentation, Microcine de Performance, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2020 Fragility of Summer, Public Intervention, Exit/ Entry Performance Art Series, Parc des Carrieres, Montreal, QC
2020 Babushka, performance, Peripheral Hours IV - At and Away happening, Independent curator: Victoria Chan, Peripheral Hours gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
2020 Zero Gravity, Performance presentation, Performing Memories II, Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2019 The Bread of My Foremothers, Research Presentation and performance
presentation, Symposium Performance and Conflict II at the Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2019 forest, Interactive performance, COMMON UNCOMMON: Dérapages domestiques art happening, Peripheral hours’ gallery, Montreal, QC
2019 Zero Gravity, Performance, Exit-Entry:Performing Immigration live art series, Studio D325, Montreal, QC
2019 My Predecessors Had a Hard Look, Performance, International Symposium: Performance and Conflict, Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2018 The Salt of Earth, Performance, Festival d'art performatif de Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivieres, QC, Canada
2017 The Bread of My Foremothers, Interactive Performance, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 Rara Avis, Inter-media Performance, LiVEART.US Festival, Queens Museum, New York, NY, USA
2017 Are Russians Hostile? On-line Performance, presented for Online Performance Art Festival Winter Edition, Belgrade, Serbia
2017 Immigraniada, Performance, Le Cajibi, Montreal, QC
2016 Ariadne#1, Inter-Media Performance, VI International Biennale of Performance Deformes 2016, Santiago, Chile
2016 Kyoto, Inter-media performance, Le Cagibi, Montreal, QC
2016 My Predecessors Had a Hard Look, Inter-media Performance, Miami International Festival of Performance Art, Miami, FL, USA
2016 We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, Performance of Endurance, Habeas Corpus: An Exhibition of Performance Art, Montreal, QC
2016 Everybody Dies But Me, Performance, Habeas Corpus: An Exhibition of Performance Art, Montreal, QC
2016 Wandering Women, Performance, ALIVE lab, Studio D325, Montreal, QC
2015 Dress for Success, Interactive Performance, ITINERANT, International Festival of Performance Art, New York, NY, USA
2015 Siberia, Interactive performance, Casa del Popolo, Cabaret ALIVE, Montreal, QC
2015 Brides, Interactive Performance (in collaboration with Maria Ezcurra), Division Gallery, Montreal, QC
2013 A Woman from Nagasaki, Interactive Performance, Café Concret, Montreal, QC
2013 A Woman from Nagasaki, La Maison de Poupee Exhibition, La Baraque Gallery, Montreal, QC
2013 Russian Roulette, performance, Closet Cabaret, Montreal, QC
2012 Indelible, Interactive performance, NUIT BLANCHE MONTREAL, 372 Sainte-Catherine Rue O, Montreal, QC
2012 RED, Interactive performance, Cabaret Ravage, La Baraque Gallery, Montreal, QC
2012 Blind Date, Interactive performance, JOURNEES DE LA CULTURE, La Baraque Gallery,Montreal, QC
2011 Loving Stranger, performance, Dis/locations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Out of Place, Humanities Doctoral Program Annual Conference 2011, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2011 Expired Venus, performance, Infringement festival, Montreal, QC, Canada
2010 Literacy, performance, Infringement Festival, Montreal, QC
2010 Literacy, Performance, Casa del Popolo, Montreal, QC
2008 YOUs, collaborative performance with Bad Theater of Beauty, Body Navigation International Festival, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2007 Braces Horror Stories, performance, Buffalo Infringement Festival, El Museo Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED):
2015 Eight to Five, Interactive Performance, Public art project, Old Port, Montreal, QC
2014 Blind Date, Presentation of the Performance, Salon: DATA V, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, QC A Woman from Nagasaki, Interactive Performance, La Maison de Poupee, La Baraque Gallery, Montreal, QC
2014 Blind Date, Interactive Performance, Concordia University, Montreal, QC Loving Strangers, Performance, XPression Gallery, Montreal, QC The Day of Simple Things, Interactive Performance, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2008 QuetzalCoatl, Interactive Performance, RustBelt Books, Buffalo, NY, USA
VIDEO INSTALLATIONS:
2009 Horseman, video-installation, (in collaboration with Masha_sha and Zachary Keebaugh) Pro-Arte Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2008 Fluid, digital video, International Women’s Film Festival, Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, Buffalo, NY, USA
2008 The Birth of tragedy, video installation, Body Navigation International Festival, Saint- Petersburg, Russia
2007 Horseman, video-installation, (in collaboration with Masha_sha and Zachary Keebaugh) Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
ACADEMIC TEACHING:
2009 - Present Course Instructor, Department of Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2014 Guest Lecturer, Department of Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Course Title: IMCA 230/4B Studio Seminar: Performance Art
2013 Guest Lecturer, Intermedia/ Cyberarts Program, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Course Title: Open Media/ Graduate Studies
WORKSHOPS (CREATOR AND FACILITATOR):
2022 Body Archeology, La Centrale Gallery Powerhouse, Montreal, QC, Canada
2022 Body Archeology, Ancestral Memory in the Context of Immigration, Le Parc lab and
Milieux Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2019 Exploring Interdependence of Empathetic Presence Through Embodied Practices of Butoh and Compassionate Communication, Acts of Listening Lab, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (in collaboration with Elena Frantova)
2018 Rituals of Body/ Rituals of Mind, Black Box Theater, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
AWARDS/ INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FUNDING:
2006–2008 FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
2008–2012 Power Corporation of Canada Fellowship, Montreal, QC
2011-2013 Thesis Completion Award, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2008–2011 Faculty of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2009 Campaign for Concordia Graduate Award, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2008–2009 Graduate Research Award, Department of Humanities, Concordia University,Montreal, QC, Canada
2005–2006 Cultural Journalism Educational Program Award, Ford Fund and Pro-Arte Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2005 Diploma with Honors, Specialist in Public Relations, Department of Public Relations, North-West Academy of Public Administration, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2003 Award for The Best Student’s Research in all-Russian Competition for the award in Public Relations PRoba, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
ARTIST TALKS and CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
2017 Rara Avis, The Ontology of Alienation, Presentation of Performance, Dirty Disciplines, Wild Knowledges, Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2016 The Narratives of Transformation and Healing in Contemporary Performance Art (public lecture), Miami International Festival of Performance Art, Miami, FL, USA
2015 (Un)disciplined Bodies: Ascetic Transformation in Performance Art, 21st Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, Meaning in Motion: Knowledge, Dialogue, and Discourse, Department of Religion, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2013 Brown Bag Series: Tatiana Koroleva and Collective Body: Ascetic Ritual in Performance Art, Hexagram Concordia, Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Montreal, QC
2012 The Day of Simple Things: Post-Communist Rituals in Russian Federation, Deuxieme Colloque Annuel de RQES, Espaces et Territoires dans le Monde Russe et Slave, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC
2011 The Collective Body in Performance Art, Dis/locations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Out of Place, Humanities Doctoral Program Annual Student Conference 2011, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2011 The Methodology of the Collective Body, CASID Annual Conference 2011, University of New Brunswick, 23 Dineen Drive Fredericton, New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
2010 Je Suis Augustine, presentation of the project (installation), in collaboration with Sorouja Moll FOOT festival, Toronto, ON
2009 Subversive Body and Its Pleasures, Intersections Graduate Conference: Crisis Critical Disruption Communication and Cultural Flows, York University, Toronto, ON
PRESS/ REVIEWS/ INTERVIEWS (selected):
Merlin Heintzman Hope, The Archive of New Gestures, Zine, Montreal, QC Canada (2021)
Rockbrand Lee, Decolonizing Art at Peripheral Hours and Métèque, The Link, October 1, 2019
Lacombe, Michelle, Radio Atelier, CIBL 101,5, No. 42, interview with Michelle Lacombe, May 13, 2019
Ivanov, Ivo, Atelier, BNT2, Bulgarian Television, interviewed by Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 4, 2017
Gan, Emilie, Salon: Data V – Tatiana Koroleva, Eastern Bloc, interviewed by Emily Gan for Eastern Bloc Press, March 21, 2012