Directed by
Jaanika Peerna
Country of Origin
United States
Runtime
5:06
Category
Short Film
A poetic film flowing from Atlantic kelp by a cold sea into the resilience of ice in the face of climate change.
Jaanika Peerna
Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist living and working in New York since 1998. Her work encompasses drawing, installation, film, and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. For her performances she often involves the audience in participatory reflection on the current climate meltdown. Her art practice stems from the corporeal experience of our existence and reaches towards enhanced awareness of the fragility, interconnectedness and wonder of all life.
She has exhibited her work and performed extensively in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Berlin, Paris, Tallinn, Barcelona, Venice, Moscow, Dubai, Sydney, Canberra, Montreal, and Cologne. Her work is in numerous private collections in the USA and Europe and is part of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris. Her performance Glacier Elegy was recently acquired by the Glyn Vivian Museum in the UK. Her work is represented by JHB Gallery and ARC Fine Art in the US, HAUS Galerii in Estonia and IdeelART globally. She was awarded the FID Grand Prize in 2016 for her work in drawing, and she was a teaching artist at the Dia Art Foundation for many years. In Fall 2021 her new monograph Glacier Elegies was published by Terra Nova Press and distributed by MIT Press.