LALKA NOVA 3 CONNECTIONS

This event combines the format of a scientific conference with a space showcasing theatrical, performative, and audiovisual art. The internationally established LALKA NOVA Performative Conference, now in its third edition, serves as a platform for discussions about art. Previous editions (2021 and 2023) initiated a discourse on the world of form, which essentially defines us.

It includes, among others, lectures, masterclasses, discussion panels, workshops, performative shows, artistic installations, and pitches stimulating art networks. We invite all creative individuals connected with the fields of art, philosophy, technology, and science from Poland and abroad to participate.

The organizer is the Puppetry Department of the Stanisław Wyspiański Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, Wrocław branch.

as a form became the point of departure for this Conference. The encounter of puppetry with other fields of art and science creates a space for the exchange of knowledge and experience. The puppet—as form, sound, animated matter, light, space, or algorithm—transforms before our eyes and generates new definitions. Here, interdisciplinarity is key. The need to seek out what is new opens spaces that begin to collectively redefine the reality that surrounds us.

As part of LALKA NOVA, we propose the accompanying new section of the Conference—a paradoxical section that ignores the pressure of technology and algorithms, a section against the flow—directed inward, toward the human being. The need for this section is as obvious and fundamental as breathing. Therefore, the program will also include spaces to slow down for a moment. Our sensitivity has power; it influences reality and change. From it, something new is born.