Ilya Noé is currently trying to stay a-pace and in-place as she concludes her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of California, Ilya is interested in troubling the conventional opposition between theory and practice, nouns and verbs, art objects and performances, events and documents, originals and copies, producers and consumers, settlers and nomads, the rhizomatic and the arborescent. Her dissertation focuses on situated, responsive and co-extensive  art-making outwith normal hegemonic modes and structures by way of the simple acts of walking, gifting, collaborating as distinct ways of knowing and making.

Neither a settler nor a nomad  –but rather what she calls, a ‘sporad’–, Ilya Noé was born and partly assembled in ‘el D.F.’, but has since expanded her zone of propagation by intermittently popping up on all sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific to trace lines and build and trans(hab)it spaces by hand and on foot. On 11/11/11 she became a resident of Berlin.
Ilya represented her country in Venice’s OPEN 2000, became a UNESCO-Aschberg Laureate in 2003, and a year later was recipient of one of Mexico’s National Young Art Awards. A special guest at the II European Landscape Biennial in Barcelona and twice at the International Biennial of Cerveira, she has been an artist-in-residence at prestigious institutions in Canada, Portugal, the United States, Germany and Spain. Her work is represented in European and North American public collections.

Publications

“Site-Particular” in eds S. Riley and L. Hunter,  Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research (Palgrave, 2009) 234-7