Art is an oracular path, from which all things are drawn and along which human questions can be explored. And all the work — of process and creation – is a journey of searching and building along the way. All together.
Vik Hovanisian is an Armenian, French, and Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work unfolds across languages, disciplines, and continents. Performer, writer, director and producer, she creates original works that cross and transgress borders to question an increasingly opaque humanity and future. Her practice weaves together theatre, performance, installation, sculpture, and music, anchored in a corporeal approach to creation. The stage is her sacred space of inquiry - a site where the body and voice converge to probe presence and transformation. Music lies at the core of her process, shaping both rhythm and structure in her works.
Trained in classical and contemporary repertoires, the theatre of the absurd, poetry and automatic writing, improvisation, and traditional dance and music, Vik brings a rare combination of rigour and intuition to her artistic language. A graduate of the Conservatoire supérieur d’art dramatique de Paris and of the Institute of Higher International Studies (La Sorbonne) in international law and relations, she grounds her creative research in a nuanced understanding of complex global contexts - where nothing is ever quite as it seems. Raised between multiple cultures and languages, her artistic inquiry explores the spaces of existence, private and political, and the shifting dynamics of colonization, decolonization, and transformation of power, always viewed through the prism of femininity and/or the female body.
After completing her first written theatrical work, produced in Toronto, Vik further developed her artistic research at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Alberta) and later at the National Theatre School of Canada (Quebec) as a resident artist in directing. In Montréal, she has created across performance, installation, and writing, while continuing to work in direction, notably on a two-year exploration of the Medea myth, revisited through a contemporary lens by Wajdi Mouawad. And in parallel to her work behind the scenes, Vik has continued performing on stage and screen (credits available upon request).
Now based between Canada and Europe, Vik is engaged in theatre and film projects that span writing, directing, editing, and production. Her current work focuses on bridging artistic and cultural communities, fostering diversity, inclusion, and youth engagement, and creating spaces where voices and bodies in motion can reimagine what it means to belong - however opaque, uncertain, and challenging that may be.