Anita Bacic was born and grew up in Tasmania - the southern Australian island state. Her parents are Croatian migrants and this cultural background plus living and growing up in a predominantly migrant community in Tasmania drives her focus on migrant experience and creating experimental narratives.

For over ten years she has explored themes of migration, displacement, and the similarities and differences of experiences of identity, belonging and more recently “Home” from those of varying backgrounds. She is interested in stories that aren't often told or shared, things that get caught in the gaps and don't see the light of day as other more pressing or perceived more important stories are shared and made visible, promoted or amplified.

Anita’s sense of otherness or a feeling of in-betweenness drives her experimental practice to find and create other ways of sharing and telling stories, while also adding to existing narratives to give a fuller and more personal account of these narratives.

She is also fascinated with the construction of stories, images and experiences and how we as individuals can actively contribute and interact in these processes. She explores works which encourage curiosity, participation, personal connections and self-reflection that in turn can potentially challenge our perceptions and how we see and interpret the world around us.

Anita’s practice focuses on creating experiential works for individuals using digital and non-digital means. Anita’s work is increasingly exploring location-based works in public space mediated by mobile smart technology, like locative site-specific work an/other time, or with Anita as mediator and performer in the mobile obscura works.

She has exhibited in Australia, the UK, Germany, Turkey, Thailand and Brazil. She has a Master of Fine Arts, School of Media Arts from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania.

Anita continues to explore street-based projects and she has been developing a project about “Home” that has involved community engagement activities. The work aims to connect participants (walkers) to talk live with people (storytellers) about their home as they walk through their hometown. Anita took this work to develop and research as she participated in residencies at Blast Theory's studios in the UK, at pvi collective in Perth, plus at Parramatta Artist Studios in Sydney.

Anita has visited Thailand frequently since 2014 and met Premika Bulakul and Nattaphon Chaiworawat through her partner Rodney Paterson who was working at the time with Premika. Immediately she found a shared interest in the arts and performance. Anita has participated in Nattaphon’s project “Living is easy with eyes closed” at BACC blindfolded as the general public had the opportunity to guide and talk about art to her. Working in public space plus the interaction with the public, and the belief that art and performance should be easily accessible to all is a strong belief that connects Anita with Chaiworawat‘s practice and has brought her to participate in Open Source Art Performance.