November 26–28, 2025
Wrocław
CONNECTIONS
INTERNATIONAL PERFORMATIVE CONFERENCE
LALKA NOVA
is an event combining the formula of a scientific conference with a space presenting theatrical, performative, and audiovisual art. Now in its third year, the international LALKA NOVA Performative Conference is a platform for discussions about art. Previous editions (2021 and 2023) initiated a discourse on the world of form, which essentially defines us.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Includes lectures, master classes, discussion panels, workshops, performances, art installations, and pitching sessions to stimulate the art network. We invite all creative people associated with the world 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 Krakow, branch in Wrocław.
LALKA
As a form became the starting point for this story. The combination of puppetry with other fields of art and science creates a space for the exchange of knowledge and experience. The puppet as a form, sound, animated matter, light, space, or algorithm transforms before our eyes and generates definitions. Interdisciplinarity is key for us. The need to find what is new opens up spaces that begin to work together on the reality that surrounds us, identity, and technology.
NOVY NURT
As part of LALKA NOVA, we propose NOVY NURT (New Trend) to accompany the conference – a paradoxical trend, because it ignores the pressure of technology and algorithms, a trend that goes against the grain – directed inward, toward people. The need for this trend is as obvious and elementary as breathing. That is why 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. Details coming soon.
THEMATIC MODULES
IDENTITIES
Who are we in the human-nature-animal relationship? How is identity shaped and manifested in art and science? How do different art forms influence the understanding and expression of identity?
KEYWORDS: identity | relationships | human | nature | animals | beings expression | shaping | interactions
HYBRIDS / TRANSGRESSION
How do art, science, and morality transcend boundaries today? How do hybrid art forms influence the perception of reality? How do we experience ourselves in the age of technology? How does a doll or form, integrating new technologies (motion sensors, 3D mapping, AI), redefine the interpretation of reality?
DESIGN
How does design influence art, technology, and innovation? How do new technologies change perception, memory, and identity? How does art explore the possibilities of AR, AI, interactive installations, bioart, and robotics?
KEYWORDS: design | innovation | technology | robotics | bioart | reflection | perception
OLD / NEW – WHAT NEXT?
What do we keep and what do we discard in puppetry?
What changes are caused by the digital world and technological development?
How should we view puppetry today – confrontational or with distance?
More information: https://www.lalkanova.com/
APPLICATIONS UNTIL OCTOBER 5!
