Ana Sánchez-Colberg

Ana Sánchez-Colberg is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist working internationally.

She has been awarded Fellowships by the Swedish Research Council, Arts Council of England, British Council amongst others.

These include Mahler's fifths (2005) Holds No Memory (2005, stage 1) 2006 part 1, 2006 part 2 and We: Implicated and Complicated (2007).

The documentary film of the creative process into 45, 46, 47 The Unbearable was premiered at Kinitiras Studio-Residency Centre, Athens on 16 March 2011.

Event/Horizons was an international collaborative project bringing together over sixty-nine performing arts artists across the globe to share practices and concerns in response to the effect of the global pandemic.

The film 13.13.13 Archeology of a City has been screened in festivals worldwide and was an award winner at Berlin Indie Festival in 2022.

The short film 13 Variables [We are no longer who we were then, in dialogue with Jean Cocteau] was an official selection for the Athens Digital Arts festival 2021 edition, ScreenDance Miami, as well as an official selection for the Berlin International Art Film Festival.

The work reimagines Cocteau's Jeune Homme et la Morte from the perspective of the Woman/Death.

Love Letters to Ana was part of exhibition Coantivirus curated by NY20+ Nongyuan Culture in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

From there it joined the permanent collection of the channel Six Minutes Past Nine, see the full series at: https://sixminutespastnine.com.

The video series is a collaborations between nine international artists during the nine-week period of 'heavy lockdown' in the city of Athens.

Ana is the lead artist who invited artists in 'lockdown cities' (from Seoul to Beijing, to Bangkok, Rome, Milan, San Antonio, to name some) to send her an audio 'love letter'.

This love letter was used as an audio-score to 'go on a walk' (a poetic slightly ironic variation on the museum audio walk) in the conditions of 'containment'.

The letters serve as a cross-border reflection on the shared and distinct conditions of 'lockdown' as well as an exercise in 'recuperation' amidst the loss.

Other work in film and documentary includes the collaborations with filmmaker Chris Clow in film and documentary projects that aim to capture the intuitive and ephemeral moments that lead to works of dance.

She has also been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award in 2016 and the recipient of the highly coveted MAP Funding (USA) award in 2019, among other awards and recognitions.

Since 2016 Sánchez-Colberg moves fully into non-stage multidisciplinary/cross-arts works based on experimentation with generative compositional rules to create new forms of collaborative and participatory contemporary art.

The works defy categorization as they bring together elements of fine and visual art, audio composition, movement, photography and film, live documentation in works that question the relationship between art institutions, the 'art-object' and the subjects involved in the creation and reception.

Her current portfolio can be seen at www.anasanchezcolberg.com.

This focus led the establishment of Vision.AI.R-e, a company developing multidisciplinary projects in audiovisual and new technologies.

J[us]t 5 in collaboration with art curators CHEAPART.GR evolved between 2017 and 2018 across various contexts including the biennale Art-Athena International Arts Fair and Return to Athens Festival.

The works were a series of site-responsive public interventions throughout the city of Athens.

J[us]t 5 REDUX an immersive installation that 'collected' previous events into a single locality was presented within the Athens International Festival in June 2018.

The work interweaved the collected narratives of the artist as she travelled through various cities- each city bringing her back to her relationship with Athens- raising questions about art, her collaborators, immigrant identity, the challenges and possibilities of life in the city in this precise historical moment.

In 2019 Ana was one of 40 awardees of the prestigious MAP Awards 2019 for the creation of the project 1[-1] Materiality of Exile in collaboration with BoxoPROJECTS.

The project was part of a one-month residency at Boxo HOUSE arts centre and focused on migratory histories of the Southwest desert, with a focus on the Latinx community whose identity is marked by migrations and "crossing" through the desert.

https://mapfundblog.org/1-1-map-2019/.

The archive can be seen at: https://materialityofexile.blogspot.com/.

Seven to the Seventh, was an unprecedented pre-pandemic global project that connected synchronically artists and their communities across seven time zones, using mobile technology throughout seven days 24–30 June 2019.

The event was made possible with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

By the end of the week over 3.4k people had participated in the event either remotely through mobile platforms or at one of the multiple international sites.

See https://vimeo.com/showcase/6273097 for the documentation of the Athens event.

The project lasted for thirteen months, from October 2020 to December 2021 and concluded in an installation showcasing the work that was generated through the exchange.

In February 2020 she was artistic mentor for the project Grass Stains in Miami, Fl, an initiative of Pioneer Winter Collective.

This gathering of twenty-two creators worked under the mentorship and facilitation of Sánchez-Colberg, in a laboratory setting over the course of one week.

The MDC Live Arts Lab surrounding MDC Wolfson Campus (Building 1) hosted the artists.

The final event curated by Sánchez-Colberg can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/395733654.

She will once again curate the event in March 2022.

A second strand 11.11 Materiality of [Contained] Exiles was premiered in a global on-line screening 29/31 May 2020.

See https://vimeo.com/showcase/6883129.