2014 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Anna Garner

Saturday, March 08, 2014 @ 2:40pm, Key 3-4

Fissures and Gaps: Our Unavoidable Edges

Anna Garner (b. 1982) examines assumptions about intimacy, personal space, and comfort. Her practice encompasses performance, video, and photography. It focuses on physical challenges that invite speculation about the artist's motivations and her ability to overcome aggravations, perturbations, or physical trials. Her videos, performances and photographs have been featured in exhibitions and video festivals on a national and international level. Her work received the Bronze Videoholic Prize at the 2013 Videoholica Festival in Bulgaria. Garner earned a bachelor of arts in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, in 2005. She currently lives in Tucson, AZ, where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Arizona.