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Interdisciplinary artist Devora Neumark is a faculty member in the MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College (Vermont) and an artist-in-residence at matralab. Neumark is also currently a SSHRC-funded Humanities PhD Scholar at Concordia University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture. Her research/creation entitled Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: the (un)making of home examines the role that beauty plays in the process of homemaking in the aftermath of forced displacement.
Along with Johanne Chagnon and Louise Lachapelle, Neumark co-edited Affirming Collaboration: Community and Humanist Activist Art in Québec and Elsewhere (Engrenage Noir / LEVIER, LUX Éditeur and Detselig Enterprises Ltd., 2011). Neumark and Chagnon co-directed LEVIER from its inception in 2001 through its closure in 2012.
Neumark is also the author of “Close Proximity” (in Performing Ethos: An International Journal of Ethics in Theatre and Performance, 2010); “Performing Beauty, Practicing Home: Collaborative Live Art and the Transformation of Displacement” (in Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change, 2010); “Performing aesthetics, performing politics: ‘The Jewish Home Beautiful’ and the re-shaping of the Jewish exile narrative” (in Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, 2010); “The Sensuous is Political: Live Art Performance and the Palestinian Resistance Movement” (in Somatic Engagement, 2011); and “Once a Russian, Always a Jew: (Auto)biographical Storytelling and the Legacy of Dislocation” (in Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies, 2012).
Neumark’s involvement with the Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy NETWORK began in 2008 and has continued ever since. In April 2011, she assumed a two-year appointment as a member of the Visual Arts, Media Arts and Arts and Crafts Advisory Board for the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Since 1989, Neumark has been the recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council and The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She has received financial support from the Faculty Development Fund of Goddard College and the Franklin Furnace Performance Art Fund.
In 1995, Neumark was the initiator and co-organizer (with Regine Basha) of the international symposium Visual Art and Jewish Identities: A Contemporary Experience held at Montreal's Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts. In 1997, she initiated and co-organized (with Loren Lerner and pk langshaw) Public Art as Social Intervention... But Now I Have to Speak: Testimonies of Trauma, Resilience and Change, a Montreal-based project held at Concordia University which included an interdisciplinary three-day symposium, a series of artistic interventions, and an extensive website.
Between 1995 and June of 1999, Neumark served as Vice President of Auberge Shalom...pour femmes, Canada's first kosher crisis-intervention centre and shelter for women victims of conjugal violence.
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