Year Completed: 2010
Media: Wood, rubber, paint, bell, electronic components, video tracking, people running

www.limitedrunproject.com

Inspired by the artist’s endurance training using the recreational paths and racecourses of New York City, Limited Run enacts an indoor track constructed within the confines of the gallery walls. Visitors are encouraged to run or walk around the looped spectacle. A fire bell rings at each completed 20-meter lap. During the exhibition, Nova organized racecourse activities with community groups as well as used the track for her own running regimen.

Year Completed: 2009
Media: RFID Technology, finish line, people running

www.thecrescendoproject.com

The Crescendo Project is an automated praise-singing machine that is triggered at the completion of a race when a runner crosses the finish line and it sings his/her name to the melody of Handel’s Hallelujah. My goal is to provide an enhanced race experience highlighting spirituality and running under the guise of art. This project orchestrates the visual spectacle of a race in a musical form, praising the runner as he/she crosses the finish line. 35 runners laced up their sneakers on September 26th to participate in the project as part of the 5th Annual Big Brother Big Sisters of New York City RBC Race in Riverside Park.

Year Completed: 2009
Dimensions: 2’ x 2’ x 2’
Media: Wood, people

Sensory deprivation chamber.

Year Completed: 2009
Dimensions: 8 feet high
Media: Steel, wood, gym mats

People jumping at their own risk.

Year Completed: 2009
Dimensions: 29.5’ x 2’
Media: Wood, steel, light bulbs, Electronic components

A sign, a big one, reminiscent of the game in which the blinking lights determine whether the object of affection returns that affection or not.

Year Completed: 2009
Media: Voice-mail recordings, finish line, people running

An audio installation created to benefit the charity Larger Than Life by raising awareness of children suffering from cancer. The DASH-Line brought the voices of the children who participate in Larger than Life to the Dor Chadash Annual 5K Run/Walk by broadcasting audio recordings of the childrens’ wishes at the race finish line. The project’s name, “DASH-Line” plays with the dual meaning of the word dash, which is an abbreviation for regards/greetings in Hebrew and synonym for race(n) in English.

Year Completed: 2009
Media: Website, mp3, map, people

www.dramaticpauseproject.com

“Dramatic Pause” draws inspiration from soap operas to make the ordinary suspenseful by giving participants an audio tour of the 14th street commercial district, assigning soap operatic musical scores and snippets of dialogue to points of interest identified along a map. Participants use their own portable devices to download mp3 files and a map from this website to follow an interactive storyline in which the viewer becomes the subject of the drama. Sites include the Union Square Farmer’s Market, Metro Drug, Jason’s Jewelry, Good Stuff Diner, Artie’s Hardware, and Rags-A-Go-Go. This project was a collaboration with Traci Talasco and part of Art in Odd Places 2009, a festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.

Year Completed: 2009
Media: Digital Image, audio recording

Documentation of stair diving performance.

Year Completed: 2009
Media: Digital print

Signs to instruct audience response.

Year completed: 2009
Media: digital print
Dimensions: 24″ x 18″

Inspired by the Cake song
“Friend is a Four Letter Word”

to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.
end is the only part of the word
that I heard.
call me morbid or absurd.
but to me, coming from you,
friend is a four letter word.