Sensing the Night 2021
For her project "Sensing the night," Anne Glassner invited scientists, artists, architects, and curators from Vienna and Brno to spend a night with her at Villa Tugendhat: a communal meal, a mattress camp, no mobile devices, no watches, but a notebook for each person and everyone in white sleeping clothes – these are not necessarily the ingredients for a hip art event or a scientific meeting, but rather for a pajama party. Yet it is precisely in this contradiction that space opens up for those aspects that characterize Glassner's work: Reduction, meditation, mindfulness, supposed passivity and waste of time, consumption- and art market-denying idleness. And all this in Mies van der Rohe's monument to modern architecture. more: https://www.tugendhat.eu/en/vila-online/interpretace/interpretace-2/
SPEED 2018
To overcome the resistance to acceleration, this basic sales message was taken up by Anne Glassner for the Meisner dealership to combine the following polarities in a multi-level, cross-media work: speed and rest, robust material hardness and the phenomenon of haptic gentleness, a concentrated consciousness and the meditative To-like outward standstills of sleep. In response to the site-specific conditions and in collaboration with the staff of the house, sculptural elements composed of car parts, which on a higher spatial level form the counterpart to the installation 2-D collages, which the artist made from the locally accessible car advertising magazines ,In direct confrontation with the rumored value fabric of the car industry, Anne Glassner can be seen on a 3.5 x 2.5 m poster in pose with a racing overalls, where she chose the medium of staged photography. Finally at the opening she interacts with the same overall.
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Anne Glassner
Austria
Anne Glassner, *1984, is a Vienna-based visual artist and performer based in Vienna. She studied painting at the University of Applied Arts, art education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the
Accademia di belle Arti in Bologna, Italy. She has had exhibitions and performances in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, South Korea, Turkey and residencies in Latvia, Denmark,
Lithuania, Armenia and Czech République. Anne Glassner is currently focusing on the topic of sleep, dreams, and consciousness research. She works site-specific and process based with various media (performance, drawing, photography, installation). Anne Glassner is also trained in the body awareness technique Eutony (Gerda Alexander) and has been collaborating with various researchers. She is founder of the Collective Vocal Naps and part of the international HangaroH Collective.