Ana Prvacki’s project based residency results from our  partnership with More Art. On June 11,12,13 2010, Prvacki’s residency resulted in the performance Wandering Band led by the artist on the High Line. Wandering Band is an informal musical stroll mingling musicians,  singers and community members from the Chelsea area as they complete their daily practice of scales, tonal and finger exercises .

Performance schedule: Friday, June 11, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, (ii) Sat and Sunday, June 12 and 13, 12:00 Noon – 3:00 PM

Ana’s residency and Wandering Band is made possible with funds from the National Arts Council, Singapore, as well as public funds from the  Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

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Bio: Based between Singapore & Los Angeles, Ana Prvacki  is founder of Ananatural Production, a lifestyle consultancy company  that combines conceptual concerns, contemporary issues and different modes of communication, and distributes recipes and instructions for varied types of experiences. Whilst Prvacki’s  practice draws on performance, consumer aesthetics and popular concerns, her work is  often participatory, and provides products and services to the audience.

A recent work such as “POST APIS”, 2009, is a  honey banking system designed to protect against the massive disappearance of the Western honeybee and its ill effects . “Salivesalve”, 2008 explores the notion of eliminating pain through  saliva generated by the artist while she plays the flute. Through a simple alchemical process, the saliva is collected and transmuted into a special, music-derived painkiller.  When Prvacki performed “At the Tips of Your Fingertips (Towards a Clean Money Culture)”, in the headquarter lobby of the financial firm UBS ( New York, 2007, she “washed” the public’s paper money with special  branded wet wipes .

Born in 1976, Serbia / Yugoslavia, Prvacki has earned considerable intermational attention in the last decade.  In 2009, she was invited to participate in the show “The Girl Effect” at Lombard Freid Projects, New York and to create a series of performaces at  Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Turin). She has performed in various international biennials (2008, Sydney Biennial ; 2007, Singapore biennial; 2006 Turin Triennale). She has also participated in group shows such as    “25 Years Later: Welcome to Art in General”, New York (2007) . In 2010, upcoming invitations include the Pompidou Center in Paris (“Repetition”) , the Isabella Gardner Museum (Boston)  and MONA Tasmanis.