As a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, textiles, and mixed media, I explore sensitivity and connection—between self and other, individual and collective, body and place. My practice spans participatory projects, two- and three-dimensional works, and large-scale durational performances, all guided by a desire to examine how we relate and respond to one another and to our environments.

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Spandex fabric often serves as a central material in my work for its ability to stretch and yield. It becomes a surface for interaction, whether combined with the moving human body or with contrasting, unexpected materials. By juxtaposing unlike modalities, I investigate different ways of heightening awareness—using sensitization as a point of entry into relation.

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In material-based works, I am drawn to repetition and pattern, while my performance installations evolve into ephemeral, slowly unfolding sculptures. Often placed in unexpected or 'insensitive' sites, these abstract interventions create moments of reflection that disrupt the habits and behaviors shaped by everyday environments.

 

Yana Schnitzler HUMAN KINETICS has been presented at major museums, festivals, and cultural events across the US and Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Peabody Essex Museum (MA), Hamburg Art Week (Germany), BMW Headquarters (Munich), Concorso d’Eleganza (Lake Como, Italy) and Opéra Plage (Nice, France). The work was recently featured on billboards in Times Square and has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the City of New York, and other foundations and sponsors.

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