P e r f o r m a n c e I n s t a l l a t i o n & C o m m u n i t y
Tamesis Unweaving
Integrating communal art creation and citizen-science water-monitoring to foster emotional connection to the Thames watershed, advance deep ecological literacy and empower resistance to river pollution
Evenki
Reconciliation
Ritual
A contemporary Evenki reconciliation ritual held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, created in collaboration with Evenki traditional artist and healer Galina Veretnova and the Evenki council of Elders.
Among the Garbage and the Flowers
Flute & Bowl Exhibition at the Centre d'Art Contemporain 6B, Paris, France
"Now, Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river
She's wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor
And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror" - Leonard Cohen
Cop26 Creative Climate Conversations with Artists and Scientists
Art, Biodiversity and Climate Network
Artists in Residence
Exhibtion and Public Event
Museum of Natural History, Oxford
Granny's Bones
Personal Places // Archival Spaces, VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Moscow, Russia.
Sound of Mother
A performance in collaboration with Lynn Hyeong and Bea Arana at the Centre d'Art Contemporain 6B
"In the beginning, there was only Chaos, the gaping void. Then, sprang forth three primordial deities: Gaea (Earth), Tartarus (the Underworld), and Eros (Love). As Love was there, Gaea and Chaos – two female deities – were able to procreate and shape everything known and unknown in the universe." Hes. Th. 104
A performance accompanying Chaos-mos, Lynn Hyeong's triptych painting and dedicated to Anya's soon-to-arrive daughter, Lyra.
Living Within a Bounded World
Boundary Project Oxford Exhibition, The Barn Gallery,
St. Johns College, Oxford
Curated as part of my work for Boundary Project, a partnership between Alchemy Arts US, Universität der Künste Berlin, and University of Oxford. My piece in this show focused on local energy usage.
Granny's Bones
Across indigenous Siberia, in a search for memory, bones and reconciliation.
On permanent display at Mansfield College, Oxford
"Anya Gleizer’s piece, Granny’s Bones, combines monumental sculpture, virtual reality and doctored photography, referencing a trip to Siberia, and her costumed performances at the Ruskin School of Art and Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. The jury felt the many elements to Gleizer’s work – performance, sculpture, VR, photography, and costume – were tied together by a strong narrative, exploring cultural identity, both personal and historical." – ArtDaily
Boundary Project
A symposium, exhibition and ecoart performance, organized and danced for Universität der Künste Berlin and University of Oxford in Wytham Woods Conservancy.
Emptiness: Ways of Seeing
Granny's Bones
Conference and Exhibition in Rīga Stradiņš, Riga, Latvia, as well as Digital Exhibition for four invited artists, for the Emptiness Project (emptiness.eu)
Dionysus Lives
“These rites are not for you to see, but they are worth knowing”
Oct. 30 - Nov. 24
National Gallery
of Scotland
Diffracting Matters:
Art & Climate Change
"It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories."
– Donna Haraway
Anthropometamorphosis
The performance Anthropometamorphosis, speaks to the transformation, loss and reconciliation that has taken place within the landscape of native Evenkia, Siberia within the last century. Exploring the performative nature of anthropology as well as the changing choreography of this discipline from 1915 to today, this work follows the inconsistent methodologies and winding tracks of the famed 1915 Oxford scholar’s, Maria Czaplicka’s, expedition to Siberia and the metamorphic aftereffects of an established connection between British institution and native Evenki herdsmen.
The Flute & the Bowl
The Flute & the Bowl aims to serve two key purposes:
1. To facilitate collaborative projects between the arts and sciences that would "act as a flute for the natural world," i.e. act as an instrument through which the natural world can communicate itself.
2. To facilitate collaborative projects between the arts and sciences that would "act as a bowl for the natural world," i.e. to hold, protect and conserve the natural world, sharing of it sustainably within our More-than-human communities.
Sheep in Wolf 's Clothing
The Voyage of Persephone
"The torn shoulder of her dress, the folds slipped down, and out the flowers fell..."
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
"Mangez sur l'herbe, Dépêchez-vous Un jour ou l'autre L'herbe mangera sur vous." - Jacques Prévert
Dionysus: Rites to Rave
“These rites are not for you to see, but they are worth knowing” - Dionysus
The Bacchae, Euripedes
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
Archipel
You were looking for an answer
metaphors of ancient peoples
building whitewashed shrines on islands
for the long-forgotten gods...
- Anya Gleizer (extract from poem, Archipel)
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Leaf Storm
"Everyone will have gone then except us, because we're tied to this soil "
Gabriel García Márquez
New Winds Over Alba
The wind was blowing from the west on September 18th...
thistle down flying
wind in the grass and
the tides
words that the fox
hides, and the plovers know
I am neither wild nor tame
Yes nor No
- Anya Gleizer (extract from poem, Referendum Blues)
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris
Your Horizons
"What makes the desert beautiful, said the little prince, is that somewhere it hides a well"
The Little Prince, Antoine Saint-Exupéry
Calligraphy
of Dance
"You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."
Rumi
F a h r e n h e i t 4 5 1
Fahrenheit 451 is a video installation which questions the proliferation and commercialization of art through an act of composed vandalism. Equated with burning, the devaluing of art through its continuous replication is reenacted by a growing cacaphony of voices that consume the intelligible text of Fahrenheit 451, while the paperback (which the artist received free with a purchase of bubble gum) burns to a cinder.
Minotaur
"The minotaur listened, understood, and then danced. Around us there was snow, falling from the wide crack in the ceiling of the hall, floating down in clouds and filling the vast space that in the darkness and snow had no end."
Pablo Valcarce (extract from Daedalus)
