Expanded biographical statement by Lyoubov Touinova. Connects her Arctic childhood, philosophical training and multi-disciplinary practice across theatre, film, sound and new media.

Short professional profile for the She-Expert platform, outlining Lyoubov’s expertise in media art, gender issues, game development, science-art and cultural studies.

International portfolios presenting Lyoubov’s visual practice within global art platforms. Include CV highlights, selected works and exhibitions.

A long-form essay on the $Permanent project — a critical exploration of biopolitics, resource extraction and speculative economies. The text situates the project between theory, media art and real-world prototypes.

Text for Theatre.doc on disciplinary regimes, criminalization and resistance practices in contemporary Russia. Combines documentary research, field work and performance thinking.

A constellation of essays, texts and literary experiments published on independent platforms, covering media, politics, intimacy, trauma and speculative futures.

In-depth interview for VATNIKSTAN, where Lyoubov speaks about contemporary art, responsibility, inspiration and working with complex realities through installation, performance and media.

Publication about Lyoubov as a media director and choreographic storyteller in cinema-dance projects, touching on expanded scenography, movement and digital tools.

Video presentation where Lyoubov speaks about the Karelian Media Art Festival, regional media ecologies and working with new formats in the North.

Selected recordings and streams from Lyoubov’s YouTube channel, including artist talks, process notes and fragments of performances.

A cycle of interactive installations and performance scores unfolding in St. Petersburg, where perception is treated as programmable matter. Visitors move through sound, light and text environments that react to their presence, revealing the tension between intuitive insight and algorithmic control.

The project weaves together Lyoubov’s long-term interests in ethics, data, and altered states of attention, proposing the body as both a sensor and an author of meaning.

A series of browser-based and blockchain-linked environments developed for the DAO HEARTWINS ecosystem. Generative visuals, audio-reactive structures and text fragments trace flows of value, care and extraction inside contemporary data economies.

Each installation functions as a speculative interface for collective decision-making, inviting viewers to imagine greener, more ethical infrastructures for finance and fashion.

An augmented reality sculpture garden launched in the US, where digital objects are anchored to specific urban co-ordinates instead of gallery walls. Visitors unlock pieces via their phones, encountering text, sound and 3D forms layered onto everyday streets.

The garden extends Lyoubov’s research into invisible architectures of power, turning the city itself into a mutable interface for memory, speculation and play.

A solo immersive exhibition in St. Petersburg that approached the sea not as a landscape, but as a state of mind. Large-scale drawings, object-assemblages and sound loops mapped emotional tides, drifting between childhood memory, faith and ecological anxiety.

The show marked an early articulation of Lyoubov’s interest in systems thinking and environmental ethics, foreshadowing later projects such as $Permanent and HEARTWINS.

A long-running series of self-curated VR/AR exhibitions on the Artstepps platform, where Lyoubov appears simultaneously as artist, programmer and spatial dramaturg. Works in sound, text, sculpture and moving image are recomposed into evolving digital architectures.

These shows experiment with how authorship, attention and economy function once the “white cube” is replaced by networks, interfaces and algorithmic visibility.

A set of experimental group shows on the Artstepps platform, bringing together artists working with data, glitch, performance and speculative narrative. As curator and participant, Lyoubov constructed non-linear paths through the works, emphasizing moments where personal vulnerability meets systemic violence.

Group exhibition at the Ulyanovsk Center for Contemporary Art, reflecting on pressure, censorship and informal economies in post-Soviet space. Lyoubov’s contribution connected documentary research with performative score, proposing art as a tactical instrument rather than decoration.

Site-specific works and public presentations created during the “Tersky Bereg” residency on the White Sea coast. Here, Lyoubov explored Arctic extraction zones, local labour histories and rhythms of the sea, translating them into performative cartographies and sound diaries.

A group show with Pavel Pepperstein and others, examining sleepwalking as a political and poetic condition. Lyoubov’s works staged the figure of the witness who is half-awake, half-programmed, navigating between prophetic vision and media hypnosis.

Participation in the international Wrong Biennale with digital pieces that questioned ownership, intimacy and spectatorship in platform capitalism. The pavilion framed her contributions as micro-interfaces for resistance and soft sabotage.

Inclusion in CYLAND’s video and media art archive, positioning Lyoubov’s work within the broader field of Eastern European experimental moving image. The presentation emphasized her interest in entropy, glitch and healing as intertwined narrative forces.

Early international group exhibition in Brazil, where drawings and objects created in dialogue with the local landscape tested how Arctic memory translates into tropical light. This encounter with another geography became a key reference point for later investigations of migration, borders and planetary scale.

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A speculative film about how power, media and trauma change the way we see. Through a collage of documentary fragments, staged situations and altered realities, the film follows characters who try to reprogram the gaze — their own and that of the system.

New Optics continues Lyoubov’s long-term exploration of perception as an instrument of control and healing, connecting cinema with philosophy, movement and sound.

A film created while living in Kharkiv, focusing on vulnerability, war-adjacent anxiety and small gestures of care. Shot with non-professional performers, Healing mixes documentary, choreography and ritual as a way to speak about survival without spectacle.

The work connects personal stories with wider political atmosphere, using slow observation, touch and silence instead of direct illustration.

Across her practice, Lyoubov works with inclusive formats (including Russian Sign Language projects) and co-founded Karelian Media Art Festival (KMAF). She treats the screen as a place where bodies, languages and interfaces negotiate with each other.

An installation working with light, breath and shared attention. Text, sound and simple choreographic scores invite visitors to slow down and notice how space itself begins to “breathe” with them.

The Telegram preview documents fragments of the process and spatial composition.

A long-term conceptual project exploring biopolitics, extraction, ecological trauma and the ethics of resource distribution. $Permanent functions simultaneously as a philosophical text, a media installation, a fashion code and a speculative economic model. It questions how societies allocate attention, value and care — and how much of this process can be reclaimed from algorithmic governance.

Since 2008, Lyoubov has developed Barbie Blaster — a digital avatar and entropy fighter who moves between game worlds, performances and glitch-driven aesthetics. The project examines identity, power, femininity and digital mutability. Barbie Blaster acts as both a narrative figure and a conceptual tool for confronting collapse and radical transformation.

Lyoubov’s essays investigate intimacy, digital bodies, feminist agency, political pressure and the poetics of trauma. Her writing moves between philosophy, documentary impulses and speculative fiction, appearing on syg.ma, discours.io and independent research platforms.

Documentary theatre texts combining interviews, somatic notation, legality, social trauma and symbolic structures. They often merge poetic dramaturgy with ethical questions rooted in human rights, vulnerability and collective responsibility.

Experimental poetry shaped by breath, rhythm, repetition and states of consciousness. These texts frequently accompany sound works or are performed as vocal improvisations, becoming part of multi-layered installations.

Sculptural objects that reference systems thinking, ritual architecture, ancient symbolism and post-human ecology. Many objects function as prototypes for larger installations or virtual spatial compositions. They translate philosophical structures into tactile forms.

Physical fragments from performance-based research — including textile codes, ritual tools, annotated props and environmental samples. These artefacts store not only material history but also emotional and energetic residue from the original events.

A series of performative environments where the audience becomes part of a sensory system. Movement, breath and attention create real-time compositions exploring vulnerability, agency and the ethics of looking. These performances blend somatic practice, media theory and algorithmic dramaturgy.

A hybrid theatre experiment built from anonymity, remote testimony and political pressure. The format questions truth-production, mediated intimacy and emotional labour under surveillance conditions.

Performances created in forests, ruins, industrial zones and remote landscapes. Lyoubov treats natural or abandoned spaces as dramaturgical partners. Each work explores environmental listening, ritual movement and fragile states of perception.

Limited giclée print of Lyoubov’s painting. Numbered and signed.

Organic cotton, front print from Lyoubov’s work. Unisex, multiple sizes.

Printed quote by Lyoubov from the $Permanent project.