“Embodyment”
Darina Alster, Prague, CZ

Opening First Thursday August 1, 2024, 5-9 pm, with artist in attendance
Show runs August 1 - August 31, 2024
Thursday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm
114 Third Ave. S., Seattle WA 98104

Featured Image: “Liquid Queer Memoria”, video-object”, 2023

Embodyment

As part of a new series focusing on bringing international artists to Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) welcomes Professor Darina Alster from Czech Republic in their first US exhibition, Embodyment. Alster, an artist exploring video, performance, and other visual media, is co-founder of the New Media II Studio at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague, Czechia (Czech Republic). Embodyment opens first Thursday, August 1, 5-9 pm, with the artist in attendance. Alster will also give a performance and artist talk the following Saturday, August 3, from 1 - 3 pm, titled, Resilience. Both events are free to the public.

Co-curated by CoCA Board Member Peter Bill and CoCA Curatorial Director David Francis, PhD.

Alster’s work disrupts conventionally perceived gender roles and explores sexuality through non-Western rituals and traditions that break down hierarchical structures.

Her posthuman feminism is a pioneering form of contemporary art that CoCA is proud to present in Seattle.

Alster’s recent performances include Non-binary Madonna, Bodies of Water, Timelessness, Theatrum Mundi, Liquid Queer Memoria, Woman Soil, and many others. Darina Alster is visual artist, performer, publisher, and professor. She lives and works in Prague.

Since 2016, she has created the Prague section of the Mothers Artlovers Collective, and she has been lead professor of New Media 2 studio in The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague beginning in 2019.