Lea Luka Sikau is an artist-researcher, completing a PhD on new music, critical posthumanism, and rehearsal ethnography at the University of Cambridge while holding a lectureship at Humboldt University Berlin. She has been a member of Harvard University’s Mellon School, and was awarded with the Bavarian Cultural Award for her research at MIT. She has worked for and with some of the most sought-after visionaries in the arts such as Marina Abramović, Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll), Paola Prestini (National Sawdust), and Romeo Castellucci. As a director and media artist, she was commissioned by institutions such as the Ars Electronica Festival, Ensemble Modern, Climate Week NYC and the German Consulate. Focusing on new music in her practice as mezzo-soprano and performer, she has premiered works in the presence of their composers, including Jörg Widmann, Gene Sxip Shirey, Nat Jobbins, and Hans Werner Henze. Lea Luka participated in the vocal class at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse 2021 and Beth Morrison Projects Producer Academy.
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