Katherine Liberovskaya is an intermedia artist based in New York City
and Montreal, Canada. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has produced
many single-channel videos, video installation works and video and music
performances which have been presented at a wide variety of events and venues around
the world. Among these: MOMA PS1 PrintShop NYC; The Duolun Museum and The Aurora
Museum, Shanghai, China; The Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; The Bitola Museum,
Macedonia (FYROM); The Tito Museum, Belgrade, Serbia; The Kyoto University Museum,
Japan; The Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, Porto, Portugal; The Roskilde Museum
of Contemporary Art, Denmark; The National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow,
Russia; The Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; The Contemporary Art Center Bunkier Sztuki,
Krakow, Poland. Since 2001 her work predominantly focuses on the intersection of
image and sound, in solo video-audio installation/environments and often in
collaborations with composers and sound artists notably in live video+sound
performance. Frequent collaborators include Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana,
Keiko Uenishi, David Watson, Shelley Hirsch, Guy de Bievre… among many others.
Since 2003 she has been exploring improvised video in live video+sound performance
situations where her live visuals seek to create improvisatory “music” for the eyes.
Over the years she has performed in concert with numerous artists including: Monique
Buzzarte, Anne Wellmer, Tom Hamilton, Margarida Garcia, Manuel Mota, Anthony
Coleman, Barry Weisblat, Mazen Kerbaj, murmer, Andre Gonçalves, Giuseppe Ielasi,
Alessandro Bossetti, Andre Eric Letourneau, Jason Khan, Jim Bell, David Grollman,
Doug Van Nort, among many others. Recent projects have involved: Anna Homler, Leslie
Ross, Chantal Dumas, Richard Garet, Mia Zabelka, Dorit Chrysler, Emilie Mouchous,
Erin Sexton, Corinne Rene and Philippe Lauzier, Magali Babin. Recent solo projects
include: the audiovisual installations “Mise-en-Abyme Cu29” (2016), “Rake”
(2015-16), “sonimaginations tissulaires” (2014-16), “NoizeBreeze” (2014), “Air-Play”
(2013), “Amplifontana” (2012-16) and “Shines” (2008-16) and the intermedia
installation “Muidebrugge Wave (Matisse/Haacke Blues)” (2015). Since the late 1980s
she has received over 30 grants and arts awards in Canada, U.S.A. and France.
Concurrently she curates and organizes the Screen Compositions evenings at
Experimental Intermedia, NYC, since 2005 and, since 2006, the OptoSonic Tea salons
with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason, NYC, and in various nomadic locations, in New
York, North America and Europe, with OptoSonic Tea On the Road. In 2014 she
completed a PhD in art practice entitled “Improvisatory Live Visuals: Playing Images
Like a Musical Instrument” at the Universite du Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
