ANA PECAR

Ana Pecar is a video artist and researcher of new approaches on the field of intermedia art. She is active as an organizer of public events through which she communicates artistic and collective currents. She achieved formal education on Corcoran School of art and University of Maribor and gained additional skills on numerous workshops and residencies.

She is engaged in important new media selections and festivals (European cultural capital 2012, International computer festival, Performa Ljubljana, Ars electronica Linz, White night Skopje, Phaenomenale Wolfsburg, Tecarttecco Milano) and is active in several artistic groups and projects. She initiated Coexamination group that was engaged in social criticism through artistic performances, public interventions and open debates. Reflecting on noise pollution, a performance was held in a steel factory where the anvil was used as a main rhythmical instrument. Through 2006-13 Ana Pecar collaborated with Berlin based group BBM (=observers of operators of machines) monitoring technologies of political control. From 2013 onwards she cooperates with Oliver Ressler. They create platforms for exposing unsolved questions of protagonists that open into universal issues. Their work was exhibited in US, Italy, India, Canada and Croatia.

In her video work the social commentary is much more subtle and intertwines with mythologies, composed artistic spaces and imagined symbolism. Pecar's videos are part of Carinthian regional museum collection, Slovene video archive (DIVA station), European Archives of Media Art, and online Earth water catalogue (an artistic initiative to raise awareness, understanding and appreciation of water).

As a live video performer Pecar appeared on many local and international venues and won the national competition in vj-ing in 2006. She regularly publishes art and creativity related articles and (video) interviews.

In the year 2012 she had received Leon Levy foundation grant, Government of Styria Stipend and a full year stipend (2012) from the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia. In the same year she actively participated in one of the most prestigious American artistic colonies, MacDowell colony and in a newly formed artistic production facility Rondo studios in Graz.




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