Darina Alster

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Born 1979. Visual artist, performer, pedagog , curator and coordinator of cultural events. She lives and works in Prague. She is mostly working with performance and video. Main topics of her artistic interest are Time, Spirituality, Identity and Relation ships. In her performances, she exceeds borders of known reality , interupting real situations with unknown and iracional things, then they will become the subconscious. She is mostly experimenting with „new“media, combine them with archaic medias, as a Astrology, Tarot, Mytology, Fairytales or other kinds of Archetypes. Her known projects are: Treasure, Piet, Confessional, Personal Tarot and Naked Lunch. She was five years teaching art at private secondary school, she was assistent of curator of NoD Gallery in Prague. Currently she feels to be medial artist and freelance curator.