“Anita Glesta’s hand-drawn animation series, A GARDEN OF OUR DISCONTENT: Anxiety and Wellbeingin Times of Crisis features a compilation of moving image work and video installation exploring how our body’s nuanced nervous system is affected by stress. Based on scientific research the artist conducted in fellowship with The ARC Laureate Felt Experience & Empathy Lab, UNSW Sydney, Au, […]
Exhibitions
CYCLE INTERRUPTED, 2009, ARTPORT_Making Waves and the United Nations for the 2009 Copenhagen 15 Conference
CYCLE INTERRUPTED is a color-saturated moving image video commissioned through the video curatorial group ARTPORT_Making Waves and the United Nations for the 2009 Copenhagen 15 Conference. The commission asked for the content of this work to address how women in the third world are affected by global warming. I chose to address this subject using […]
Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia UNNERVED 2022
Installation in Federation Square Melbourne in “The Atrium” and on the face of the ACMI, Australian Centre of the Moving Image Sept/Oct 2022. This work was created during a fellowship at the fEEL Lab at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. UNNERVED premiered in Melbourne, Australia during the “Big Anxiety Festival Sept/Oct […]
Group exhibition, “Intersections,” Peking Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, 2018, PULSE
Schillinger and the Dancer, White Box, NYC 2015
Commissioned by WhiteBOX and Fiona Gunn, Schillinger and the Dancer referenced the story was inspired by SS Oberscharführer Josef Schillinger, who was shot and killed by a young woman, possibly a dancer, in the undressing room of the Birkenau camp gas chamber on October 23, 1943. An essay by historian Kirsty Chatwood explores a version […]
Guernica Project 2006-2013
Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow White Box New York