Pablo Ernesto Gershanik

Research Project

Rebuilding personal tragedies with and for an audience: towards a performance-based tool to create a common space following violence

Biography

Pablo Gershanik is an actor, clown, director, and university lecturer. His work explores memory, trauma, and space through artistic creation and research. He created, Intimate Maquettes Lab, an artistic and therapeutic device presented in museums, universities, and institutions in Canada, France, Argentina, Mexico, the UK, the US, and Belgium. 

He trained at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (Paris) and holds a Master’s in Artistic Creation with a specialization in Dramatherapy (University of Paris). He is pursuing a PhD in the INDI program in Fine Arts at Concordia University, Montreal. He created and directed the Diploma in Mask Making and Interpretation at the National University of San Martin UNSAM (Argentina). He has taught and researched in Argentina, Mexico, Canada, and France.  As an actor and clown, he has appeared in over twenty international productions, including Nomade (Cirque Éloize) and 52 (directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca). He co-directed the Fibonacci Project, South America edition, with Samuel Tetreault of Les Sept Doigts de la Main.  

His piece “Eighty Bullets to the Wing”,was awarded by Centquatre Paris and the Institut Français, and presented in Argentina, France, and Canada. His publications include work in Trauma-Informed Placemaking (Routledge, 2024) and Art & Thérapie (INECAT, 2023).