Performance and Concept

Alina Skaya (Alina Kalinouskaya)  is a Los Angeles–based performance and conceptual artist producing cross-disciplinary projects across music, art, digital fashion, immersive technologies, and multimedia within decentralized ecosystems, leveraging blockchain and NFT frameworks. Recent projects include Pavuk Live — a benefit art installation and performance supporting Ukraine, featuring a curated NFT collection minted on Digital Original; Belarus Digital Fashion — an NFT collection blending immersive elements with interactive AR filters (in development); and Free Belarus Metaverse — an immersive platform integrating avatars, digital fashion, live events, and social interaction, accompanied by a global event series aimed at uniting the Belarusian diaspora (in development).

Her practice blends live performance with digital media and interactive elements to explore social issues and test emerging technologies. Highlights include Vitruvian Human (performed at UNMC’s iEXCELL Holographic Theatre iEXCEL at UNMC’s Davis Global Center in Omaha and Lois Lambert Gallery as part of Getty PST Art Initiative and the DNA Festival Santa Monica), Transparency Alley (video work shown at the Lambert Gallery and featured in The Analog Brain series during Getty PST/DNA Santa Monica), and Black Cat (premiered at REDCAT/The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater); these projects were created in collaboration with EZTV.

Born in Belarus, Kalinouskaya initially practiced as an attorney and later transitioned to performance and media art in Los Angeles. She is a Chevening Award recipient and holds an Excellence Certificate from the Minsk city bar association. Her early work includes Adios, Dolores, immersive noir theatre, and a period as a LA street artist, which shaped a practice rooted in movement, improvisation, and direct audience engagement. Her embodied practice draws on long-term physical and visual training, with background in violin and body-based art modeling, reflecting a diverse heritage including Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, Roma, Tatar, and Ottoman lineages. 

P.S. Black Cat was, and remains, my favorite project.