Jana Romanova is a multidisciplinary artist working with games, performance, and photography. Through role-playing, social games, and various playful experiments, she researches liminal spaces, (in)visible systems that shape us, and what agency, care, and ecological imagination might look like when we playtest other ways of living together.
Her long-term projects were exhibited at various international exhibitions and festivals such as Prospects (Rotterdam NL), Copenhagen PhotoFestival (Denmark), Format (Derby, UK), Chobi Mela (Dakha, Bangladesh), Cortona on the Move (Italy), Encontros da Imagem (Braga, Portugal), the Backlight Festival (Tampere, Finland), Encuentros Abietros Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and many others, and she’s got several prizes and honorable mentions in photography and art all over the world.
She’s particularly passionate about thinking games, play, and playfulness as tools for creating meaningful connections. She designs and facilitates live-action role-playing games in physical spaces open for people with any or no experience in it as part of her art practice.
As a guest teacher, she is invited to facilitate workshops on playful approaches at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Wageningen University, and ArtEZ in the Netherlands. She is a co-founder of “More Than a Project”, an online educational platform for visual artists, together with Maria Morina.
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