BIO

Ana Čavić’s artistic practice is situated at the intersection of the performing, visual and literary arts. Her practice reflects a consistent engagement with storytelling, both visual and verbal, which she performs on the page and the stage. Her eclectic practice – encompassing cut-up poetry, collages, papercuts, artist publications, digital poetry animations, interactive poem objects and theatrical storytelling performances – is unified thematically through her sustained interest in presenting female narratives, informed by her continuing research into female characterization in historical orature and literature. As a contemporary storyteller following in the fabulist tradition, she spins fantastical verse stories which she complements with sumptuous visuals – whether on the page or the stage. Currently, she is working on several ongoing long-term projects. She continues to make visual poetry using the cut-up method, which she also uses as story material for her ongoing A thread without end (2017–) theatrical performance storytelling cycle. In the series Papercut Poetry (2020–), she makes papercut poems in which she re-imagines visual poetics by utilizing an idiosyncratic vocabulary of symbols to explore poetic narrative by purely visual means. Following her series of collages Mythopoeias (2020–2022), she continues to make miniature collages.

Ana Čavić is a visual artist, poet, performance storyteller, and academic. Her interdisciplinary practice combines visual, performing, and literary arts, and she works across different media and fields, including art, literature, and theater. She creates cut-up poetry, collages, papercuts, artist publications, digital poetry animation, interactive poem objects, and theatrical storytelling performances. Recently, she has been exhibiting her Mythopoeias (2020–2022) collages, a thematic series focusing on female characters from literature and orature. Her artist book Mythopoeias (Rostfrei Publishing, 2023) features cut-up poetry alongside collages. In her Papercut Poetry (2020–) series, she uses an evolving vocabulary of symbols and an idiosyncratic papercutting technique to create purely visual poems. Since 2017, she has been exhibiting and performing A thread without end (2017–), an ongoing series of “visual storytelling performances” featuring original poetry and specially devised visual aids, which she uses to stage theatrical storytelling performances in various analogue and digitally augmented formats. She has a PhD in Art (2024), researching performance storytelling traditions and performance publishing, on the page and the stage.

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