The Act of Isis
background sound: DJ Deus Ex Machina
Manifestation of the state of the world through female body. Woman is the medium, her body is a projection screen that the viewer can have taste. Performance have edible parts. Information passes through the stomach.
Darina Alster (1979) is visual artist, performer, publisher, curator and pedagog. She lives and works in Prague. She is mostly working with performance, spoken word, sound and video. Main topics of her artistic interest are time, rituality, religions, personal or national 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, Mythology, Fairytales or other kinds of Archetypes. Her known projects are: Treasure, Piet, Personal Tarot, Naked Lunch, Bianca Braselli, Fembot, Thelematrix, Videoautomat, Memorial to victims of Capitalism, Imago Dei, Videoaltar, Dark Madona, Modern forms of invocating reality.
Vladimír Turner (1986) graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in audiovisual studies, then he studied at the Studio of Intermedia Confrontation at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He has been to study stays and residencies in Buenos Aires, Valencia, Nijmegen, Toulouse and Brisbane. In his works, he oscillates between documentary film, art in public space and activism. He does not perceive these fields as divided, trying to combine them within a whole he labels as active civic life. His works from around the world can be seen in the streets, on film screens and in galleries.
Title: The meaning
Karíma Al-Mukhtarová (CZ, 1989) oscillates between the interest in the world of physical phenomena and tricks connected to rumour or spectacle.
Her performances and installations feature her interest in rational mental structure of an artwork and almost sensuous relationship to casual life and world around her. All this she can render in precise, fully focused and adequate artistic form.
"G-string For Senator"- it was made as a present for one Czech senator (Jiří Škromach) from found cover for car mirror. It suppose to be evaluation of his political job.
Cleaning Job.
Hunger in developed society is consumption. If you are hungry or not you will always be a consumer. In parts of the world things are produced, and in other parts things are consumed. The origin of consumables can be traced and then we can complete the picture of the world we are living in.
Nongkran Panmongkol is Thai artist who lives and works in Stockholm and in Thailand. She is working with installation, video art and performance. Her main theme is deep social observation, social critique and manifestation of human equality. She reflects social differences and current changes that society is going through. Among them is also the idea of the West and the East. Important element throughout her work is physical human interaction and sharing.
