Geometric Geography will address Alina’s communal and individual experience as part of the third wave of Russian-Jewish émigrés – a human wave passing through geographical, political and cultural borders.

This project will produce a pictorial series shaped by cultural and social studies, personal experience and public interactions. Focusing on Russian-Jewish immigrants who fled the Soviet Union from the 1970s to the early 1990s and working closely with the Russian-Jewish diaspora in New York, the project will consist of a number of visual mediums, including academic research, photo documentation, public interventions and original artworks.

Through a series of public interventions Geometric Geography will bring unconventional art forms to the community and to create a “research/art laboratory” in a public space. Each event will target a specific “problem” and set “reaction” that will form the characteristic brushstrokes of a final community portrait.

Alina Bliumis was born in Minsk, Belorussia, and is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in NYC. Her work often reflects on her own experiences and develops subjects dealing with migration, social developments and cultural engineering.

Her projects range from video art to documentary films to site-specific installations. Though based in New York, Alina is a truly global artist. She has shown her work at exhibitions and film festivals across the globe, from the New York Video Festival to Videomedeja, International Video Festival, Serbia, from Busan Biennale, Sea Art Festival, South Korea to 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the MuseumQuartier in Vienna and Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy.

She received her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York and then studied in the Advanced Technology Lab Program at New York University.