Anna Rewakowicz

Bio

Anna Rewakowicz (aka as Ana Rewakowicz) is an interdisciplinary Polish-born artist/researcher of Ukrainian origin based in Montreal, whose practice concentrates on the creation of different patterns of engagement employing imagination, poetics, technologies and participation, to develop a more sensitive and visceral relation with materiality and meaning by creating installations (immersive environments), in which viewer/participants are provoked to new points of view. Her objective is to make the ineffable and abstract (concepts, ideas, emotions) more affective to serve as a conduit motivating people to active responses. Rewakowicz received her PhD at the École Polytechnique in Paris, where she collaborated with scientists on a project that addresses the issue of diminishing sources of fresh water in the world and looks at alternative methods of obtaining water from fog. She has artworks in the permanent collections of MACRO (Rome, Italy), MAC (Montreal), MNBAQ (Quebec City), Musée de Joliette (Quebec), and has exhibited in Canada, Europe, South America and the USA. She is the recipient of many grants and awards, and her works have been featured in journals, films and books, most recently in Negative Space edited by Peter Weibel and published by ZKM (2021). Her chapter entitled “Encounters: Art, Science, Clouds and Water” is included in the Transmedia Change: Pedagogy and Practice of Socially-Concerned Transmedia Stories book, edited by Kevin Moloney and published by Routledge (2022).

Office

Dubai Academic City, Dubai

Phone:

+971 4 402 1662

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Teaching Areas

Installations, video, space, performance, sculpture and participatory practices

Research and Professional Activities

Building interdisciplinary bridges through collaborations and participatory practices in the context of environmental concerns, with a particular focus on water.