Margarita Novikova     (from Russian Federation / Asia)
TOUCH + HEARING

Born in Moscow; worked at documentary film studio while being student at MEPhI; authored documentaries at The Reporter program on Russian TV; graduated from The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia (Theory and Practice of Video Art Course).
Took part in the following exhibitions and events:"[m]other Russia" at the Foundry (London, 2010) and "Residential district. Model lesson" (Moscow, 2011); VIDEOAKT International Videoart Biennial (Barcelona, 2011); Great Bear’s Sons show, tribute to 50 years of 1st man in the space (Moscow, 2011 and Krasnoyarsk, 2011); “Single Socks Club & Communication Line” - public/participatory aesthetics project for special project at 4th Moscow Contemporary Art Biennale (Moscow, 2011); “Waiting in a Garden” show in Yasnaya Poliana Museum’ (Tula region, 2011); interactive video project about Soviet coup d’etat-1991 ПутчЁself in collaboration with Elena Michajlowska, - www.putchyourself.com - presented at Art of Memory show (Moscow, 2012) and Leeds University (Leeds, 2012); “Kosmos as Presence V5" Russisch-Deutscher Kunst Konvent (Berlin, 2012); Cervantes Institute of Berlin with programm of VIDEOAKT International Videoart Biennial (Barcelona) (Berlin, 2012); “SeaSicknesses” experimental film (“Single voyage” show, Moscow, 2012 and Moscow Ecology Week, 2013); “Resort city” project (video combined with embroidery by Maria Arendt) for Museums Night (Moscow, Moscow Union of Artists, 2013); “Compulsory conditions” show (Moscow, 2013), 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013), Cosmos on earth and in the sky (Ghent, Belgium, 2013)



www.putchyourself.com/margarita/