- Visiting Scholar
- Email: DNeumark@clarku.edu
Currently living in Iqaluit (in the Eastern Arctic), Devora Neumark, PhD is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, senior policy analyst, educator and community-engaged practitioner with over 30 years of contemplative practice. Neumark is also a Yale School of Public Health-certified Climate Change Adaptation Practitioner. Neumark was a faculty member in the Goddard College MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program from July 2003 through May 2021, where they co-founded the Indigenous and Decolonial Art Concentration in Port Townsend, WA. Their Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s-funded research-creation PhD titled Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: Involuntary Displacement and the (Un)Making of Home was an inquiry into the relationship between the traumas associated with forced dislocation and the deliberate beautification of home, including the problematics of home related to climate disruption and the continued increase in global climate refugeeism.
Neumark is developing two new bodies of related artwork: one engages wellness and the cultivation of joy as radical practice; the other is focused on environmental trauma and mainstreaming climate justice. They will be starting their three-month Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT) Fellowship at the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) in October 2024.
Relevant Works:
- Acker, S. & Neumark, D. (2023, November 25). In the face of death, destruction and displacement, beauty plays a vital role in Gaza. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/in-the-face-of-death-destruction-and-displacement-beauty-plays-a-vital-role-in-gaza-216982
- Neumark, D. (2015). Dialogic performance and the shaping of physical and psychosocial urban geographies. In O. Lazzaroti, G. Mercier, & S. Paquet (Eds.), Géographie et cultures (pp. 91–110). Paris: L’Harmattan. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cpfCO-LEeCUPHbIXkoq3NJAVLovAeHth/view?usp=drive_link
- Neumark, D. (2015). Co-activating beauty, co-narrating home: Dialogic live art performance and the practice of inclusiveness. In D. Conrad & A. Sinner (Eds.), Creating together: Participatory, community-based, and collaborative arts practices and scholarship across Canada (pp. 111–129). Wilfrid Laurier University Press. https://doi.org/10.51644/9781771120241-010
- Neumark, D. (2013). Drawn to beauty: The practice of house‑beautification as homemaking amongst the forcibly displaced. Housing, Theory and Society, 30(3), 237–261. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SrLOWSBRoOqXUQwTw6e_6Vq5SlyLK7rS/view?usp=drive_link
- Neumark, D. (2010). Performing aesthetics, performing politics: ‘The Jewish Home Beautiful’ and the re‑shaping of the Jewish exile narrative. Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, 1(1), 37–51. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVZeYlQ5qSNmIvKo_wZRNWVMd5TKVJ0i/view?usp=drive_link
- Neumark, D. (2018). How at home are we really? Art, diversity & dwelling in Canada’s multicultural landscape. In T. Willard (Ed.), Access all areas: Conversations on engaged art (pp. 31–48). Grunt Gallery. https://artofengagement.gruntarchives.org/essay-devora-neumark-how-at-home-are-we-really.html
- Neumark, D. (2007). Home is where the walls speak in familiar ways: Listening to the demands of ethics and witness in community performance. In P. Kuppers & G. Robertson (Eds.), The community performance reader (pp. 142–148). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003060635/community-performance-reader-petra-kuppers-gwen-robertson
- Devora Neumark – Home Beautiful: https://devoraneumark.com
- Matralab: https://matralab.hexagram.ca/tamuke/home/