artistic direction  NOMAD

transdisciplinary artist

director, dramaturge,

real time installations, media, scenography

light spaces

Born in Stockholm.

Stage director, dramaturgue, author, curator, multidisciplinary artist.

artistic direcotor  an founder of NOMAD-theatre, LABfactory,
Co-founder and cief dramaturge of the performance-company Liquid Loft.

Thomas J. Jelinek is working on conceptual art-spaces, Art-Labs Art&Science projects and realized art- and media-performances, video-works, interactive space installations and light-rooms. (as (EFNAAR Eindhoven, Tacheles Berlin, Immobile Milano, Ars Electronica etc.)

He has developed and directed various performance, opera and theatre projects and specifically developed contemporary forms of theatre for industrial sites and urban areas in Europe. He also worked for television productions and urban architectural projects.

With the focus on the basic mechanisms of perception and the construction of reality he is developing interactive installations as well as transdisciplinary laboratories in between art and science.

Thus interventions in public space and production of discourse zones as theatrical processes

as well as stage-rooms and light concepts for theatre and art spaces

are part of his practical work. In this context he also realized a number of stage-spaces

and light concepts for theatre, danceprojects and performance.

As a stage director he has realized various performance, opera and theatre projects in public

and theatrical areas in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and France

and several other countries. He works as a dramaturgue for various dance productions

and was joint founder and head of MESSING network.

From 2000-2008 he was chairman of IG Kultur Vienna (association of independent artists

and cultural organisations/Vienna). founder of NOMAD theatre (2000)

and the LABfactory (2003 in Vienna),

As a curator he realized a number of transdisciplinary art ventures, international festivals, like TRANSART Croatia, and collaborative art-spaces.

He is founder and artistic director of NOMAD.theatre and co-founder, dramaturge and scenographer of Liquid Loft

and founder of several other art-groups and art-spaces, like MESSING-network or LABfactory.

He has been teaching in specific transdisciplinary settings as for example

as guest professor at the Achademy of fine Arts Vienna or Willem de Kooning Academy

(Rotterdam/NL), in 2006/2007.

 awards:

theatre-award donaufestivals (Krems/A) 1998,

for Johnny got his Gun“ (Dalton Trumbo)

"Kunststücke" award of ORF- Austrian television:

„Best Short“ for „Dantes Inferno“ 2003

"The Golden Lion" of  "Biennale di Venezia" 2007

for best performance, with Liquid Loft

further theatrewards: Szczecin (PL),

Biennale-Lyon (F) a.o.

Current:

TEST.TUBE.LAB - working on transdisciplinary art labs, ART-LABs
and Streaming LABs - like production of ART - Streaming series.

Experiments with the interweaving of digital and physical art spaces.