VICTORIA VESNA

Hox Zodiac 2009 - Present (Personal Project)

Hox Zodiac was inspired by the properties of the Homeobox genes which essentially define body regions in all animals as well as humans -- introduced to me by my collaborator on this project, neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan.

The goal is to entice the audience with these fascinating genes that are responsible for many different variations of legs, arms and other parts of the body exist in the animal kingdom. The hox gene also plays a role in many dynamic changes in human development and continues to be an important subject for scientific exploration in the areas of brain development, body patterning, and variation across species. My intent to create and experiential space that relates the idea that we are all interconnected and share the same gene led us to evolve this project into a participatory art project in the form of a dinner table.

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Exhibitions

2020

• April 22

  Hox Zodiac Online Dinner for Earth Day, Vienna, Los Angeles, New York, Fortaleza, India, China




• January 25

  Hox Zodiac Chinese New Year dinner, Los Angeles




2019

• November 24

  Hox Zodiac Thanksgiving




• June 20

  Hox Zodiac dinner, Paris




• April 13

  Hox Zodiac Dinner with Siddharth Ramakrishnan




• March 2

  Hox Zodiac NYC dinner at Josely Carvalho’s home, New York, NY




2018

• Dec 12-14

  Hox Zodiac Banquet opening for the conference and exhibition Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn at Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL), Vienna




• November 30

  2016 Hox Zodiac book launch: UCLA Fowler Museum, 7pm.




• November 4

  2016 Workshop: Hox Zodiac Lunch. Collaborations Symposium, Zürich University of the Arts




• July 9

  Hox Zodiac Closes at Building Bridges Exchange Gallery




• June 9

  Hox Zodiac private birthday dinner – Alex Verhaest




• May 26– July 9

  Building Bridges Art Exchange gallery, Bergamot station, Santa Monica. Source




• March 4

  2016 "Hox Zodiac Dinner", performance with Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Museum of Natural History, University of Seattle




2015

• October 23

  HOX ZODIAC WIEN

  Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL)

  Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 1010 Wien SOURCE




2014

• Dec 4

  Hox Zodiac “dinner” , UCLA Art | Sci gallery




2013

• November 25- January 2

  HOX ZODIAC at MOCA Taipei http://artsci.ucla.edu/hox/