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Anya Liftig
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- Brooklyn, NY
- United States
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Rachel Parry left a comment for Anya Liftig"Great art work, looking forward to meeting you & seeing your work this week. Rachel "
Anya Liftig posted an eventGrace Exhibition Space At Exit Art at Exit Art
April 2, 2012 at 6pm to April 7, 2012 at 9pm
Grace Exhibition Space: Collective Synergy & Performance Actions Grace Exhibition Space explores new ideas in performance art through: archival documentation, discussions, workshops, and live performancesCOLLECTIVE / PERFORMATIVE at EXIT ART in Manhattan at 475 Tenth Ave NYCThis exhibition responds to the abundance of recent attention given to performance art, and specifically to the shifting terms used to define viewer engagement: "collaborative," "relational," "participatory," and…See More
Anya Liftig posted a blog postRoves and Roams and Ovada Present "Produce/Procreate" in Oxford, UK
http://tiffanyhoran.blogspot.com/2012/03/anya-liftig-commentary.htmlCommentary of Anya Liftig’s Performance 'Produce/Procreate'Evening of performance presented by both Roves and Roams and OVADAWritten by Tiffany HoranThe audience were yet to take their seats; I watched Anya from the front row as she surveyed the room, removed her coat and sat down behind a large table covered in a blood red…See More
Anya Liftig posted a status"http://www.exitart.org/exhibition_programs/current_programs/collective_performative.html Honored to be part of this…"
Anya Liftig posted eventsArt in Odd Places/Ritual 2011
October 1, 2011 at 10am to October 10, 2011 at 10pmCurrent Wave: Video and Performance
September 22, 2011 from 7:30pm to 10:30pm
Anya Liftig posted a videoDaylight Black-Anya Liftig in Performance from anya liftig on Vimeo.
Daylight Black-Anya Liftig in Performance
A performance at Chez Bushwick for Bushwick Open Studios Weekend in Brooklyn, New York June 4, 2011. Anya Liftig eats a bouquet of red roses.
For more information about the artist, please visit:
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- Anya Liftig' s work “The Anxiety of Influence,” was an intervention into Marina Abramovic’s “The Artist is Present” retrospective at MOMA. She dressed as the elder artist and sat across from her all day. Liftig’s work has been featured at TATE Modern, Highways Performance Space, Exit Art, Chashama, English Kills, Surreal Estate, Grace Exhibition Space, Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, Eyedrum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Yale University, INCUBATEChicago, University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, Mess Hall, Joyce Soho and many other venues. Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire Italia, Heeb, Mix Magazine, Next Magazine, Now and Then, Stay Thirsty, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Jezebel, Animal New York and many others. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University and has received grant and residency support from The Field, Vermont Studio Center, University of Antioquia, Casa Tres Patios-Medellin Colombia, and Flux Projects, Atlanta.
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Produce/Procreate in Oxford, UK, Sponsored by Roves and Roams and OVADA
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Roves and Roams and Ovada Present "Produce/Procreate" in Oxford, UK
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http://tiffanyhoran.blogspot.com/2012/03/anya-liftig-commentary.html
Commentary of Anya Liftig’s Performance 'Produce/Procreate'
Evening of performance presented by both Roves and Roams and OVADA
Written by Tiffany Horan
The audience were yet to take their seats; I watched Anya from the front row as she surveyed the room, removed her coat and sat…
Contemporary Performance TXTS-Anya Liftig
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:48pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
My name is Anya Liftig. I perform. I photograph. I make stuff. I try to be serious but usually I think that other people think what I do is either funny or sad or both. I think about failure. I think about missed connections. I like to cause trouble in my work. Sometimes I use food, sometimes I do things I am probably not supposed to. I like to pull pranks on myself. I try to do things that scare me. I want to be more courageous everyday. I try to not sit on my…
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- At 8:37pm on April 2, 2012, Rachel Parry said…
- Great art work, looking forward to meeting you & seeing your work this week. Rachel
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