Tarot Lab

Tarot Lab is installed for one year in GASK Kutná Hora. It is collaborative project with Marketa Dolejšová. We connected our projects Parlour Tour (by Marketa) and Personal tarot by me.

Tarot is a neverending structure, always after number 21 becomes 0. In the same time it is Rota, circle, rotation, also the net of relationships, their sense depends on their position in between each other Tarot system is presented by 22 multimedial mobil phones, which are creating the net of communication. Entire mobiles are named by the names of the carts and theyr contents create psychological portrait of each cart. The sence of each of 21 Arcanes of the Tarot game is as complex as a human personality. It is impossible to evaluate it positive or negative, it always depends on the whole situation and circumstances. The movies are short, edited in a single movement of small performances. Frames of these movies are collected as photos, situations where time does not exist, because time inside is not continual, it is interior time of memories. The mobile phone is a singular entity, as Arcane of Tarot cards. Because of this I try to connect these two medias, coming from the past and from the future.

#personaltarot parlourtour darinaalster marketadolejsova

Radical Love

Radical Love

Interbeing. A different body, different bodies. A body as a social experiment.

Cruising bodies… Love is a collective body. The body of a relationship. The body of a community. Being together. The body of society. Love turned into capital through thermal energy.

Sexuality, polarity. Le Penis & La Vulva and other types of exotic fruit instead of a brain; the ability to agree on shared and individual games and dreaming… A body as a door to the unconscious.

Gender as an obsolete concept. Metagender. The Animus versus the Anima switching every second depending on one’s mood… Androgynous. Anima Mundi. The soul of the world. The world’s collective body. The Mother Earth’s love. Her conscious, creative people walking on the face of the Earth…

The world’s skin, the world’s neural network… The Internet as externalized autonomous thinking.

 Love revealed in online conversations…

 Free Love without borders. Love without attachment.

 Divine love and human inferiority to various idols. Animality is so liberating!

A human, an animal, a human body with an animal soul on all four, waggling hips, gulping blood. Elevation & humiliation. Hierarchy. SM games. Objectification. Reduction.

Wisdom of sexuality. Radical openness.

Love as trust in connection. Mental blocks melting in the sea of Love…

The wrathful divine face. A higher power materialized outside society as an environmental disaster. Repression of unpleasant circumstances. Dancing on a sinking ship… Extinct species and natural processes materialized in the methods of human thinking.

Growth, expansion, pounding, thawing, blowing, melting, sucking, hardening.Labouring Mother Earth. Sharp carnal sex.

Fluidity. Melting ice contemplation… The awareness of constantly melting glaciers.

Smashed political body… Which new word do we have now to use for Feminism?

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How to transform Love to the capital? New word for Feminism

Two T-shirts with facebook conversations about two topics of the exhibition Radical Love. Both was my fb statements durring past six months. Can we find new word for Feminism? and How to turn love into the capital? Those t-shirts was weared by friends durring the openning and than was installed into a window of the shop near the gallery.

Theatrum Mundi 2.0

Theatrum mundi 2.0 is Multimedia installation and group performance that captures the inner space of man and metaphorically also the world. In the Jesuit College, performance continues on a permanent exhibition of the States of Mind. Performers will work with individual states of mind. The basis of group performance is interactive projection and theater turntable. Performance will accumulate in one place and rays will roll off after GASK. The viewer becomes an active element of the installation. The concept for GASK was created by Darina Alster. The video installer is Michal Kindernay. Collaboration: Pavel Havrda Acknowledgments include the Study of Heroes. The following performances are: Lenka Klodová, František Kowolowsky, Gaby Bila-Gunther, Jana Orlová, Kateřina Olivová, Marie Zandálková, © Merry, David Helan and Miloš Šejn, Kateřina Olivová, Petra Pětiletá, Ladislav Vondrák, Vladimír Havlík, Mojmír Pukl, Jennifer Helia De Felice, Elis Unique, Eva Sližová, Katarina Kadijevic, Aneta Jaurisová,  Mariana Kuželová, Jan Škrob, Helena Machová, Jan Běhounek

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Sale of identities

Performance Sale of Identities, which we did with Red Woman, Black Man, Multihand, Urban city as an Performade event in Tomas Ruller´s retrospective exhibition in GHMP Prague, 14.9.2018.

Photos by: Katarina Kadijevic, Camila Vieira, Starring: Black man, Red woman, Urban city and Multihand.

#postidentity#postperformance#redwoman#multihand#newaliensagency#darinaalster#albertpoda

Body Cluster

Body Cluster: Two opposite parts of Psyche are fighting with ego. Two strong female archetypes in opposition which is their conjunction. Inner healing proces. The tension of fight, the borderland between struggle and love of contrasting energies as the basic pulsation or the motivation of life. Transformation of fear through physical process.

Authors: Darina Alster and Jana Orlová.

CreArture festival, Postgallery, Kaunnas, Lithuania, 7.9.2018.

Photos by Airida Rekštyte, Eligius Kniežauskas, Arturas Armonas

#feministperformance  innerfights#femalearchetypes

Red Agent

Performance Red agent i did as a part of festival CreARTure in Postgallery, Kaunnas, Lithuania. 8.9.2018. Photos by Airida Rekstyte. Red Agent: Inner invasion of love outwardly manifests itself through the performance piece. Our bodies are mortal, our feelings are immortal. We create our future body through our emotions. There is no need for fear. Love on the edge of pain is spreading our soul to the entire word.  

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Tension Relay

Tension Relay Posthuman tension, Invasion of Love, identity research, reclaiming emotions, reinvention of love, Army of people, we are all heroes, our feelings are political … Darina Alster in cooperation with PXS, Jakub Ra and Army of people, Ida Elastic, technical support Andrej Boleslavský. The internal invasion of love manifests itself externally through action. There is no place for fear. We create our next body from our present emotions. Our love is love. Performance is a common prayer for civilization. The Power of Chaos Recovering Life. Part of the live set Idy Elastic as well as the totally exhaustive performances from PXS. The Army of People, through movement, ritual, words and various subjects, will symbolize past, future and present identities. For Darina Alster, the pattern is repeatedly crafted as a slow prayer for preserving a lively nucleus that has the ability of self-renewal even after any crisis or disaster. Performers and gallery visitors will be part of this figure. They can also circumnavigate the labyrinth in its circumference. We build Magic against the collapse of the world. Magic is everyday. There is no chance of fear. We love life and experience love. Fear generates hatred. Love interconnects. We humans are also spiritual beings. Entering the soul into the body is a transition from 5D to 3D space. Time is a tool of the body. Gender limits us. With the strain in society, we balance ourselves with art. Love on the edge of pain spreads our souls to the whole world. Gallery space now becomes shrine and darkroom.

The Fridge

The Fridge. Mothers art exhibition. Jelly cake in the fridge. Forgotten dildo included. Unicorns included. Brest pudding with mothers milk.Erotic wishes and desires as a part of daily mothers life. Exhibition and performance Gushes 2 we did with Kateřina Olivová in the fridge of the curator Mira Gáberová. Freezing gallery space is perfect when outside is 37 degrees. 31.7. 2018. Gallery Fridge in Prague 

Red Agent

My performance Red Agent was a part of Performance Train Project (TAC curator Rokko Juhas) at Karlín studios, Prague 11.7.2018.

Part of it is a poem:

Who will take the stale heart/ from the bottom of the ocean/ and turn it into a flute?

 We are apes jumping from a branch to branch/ beating our breast by the fire.

 My heart is naked like a penis/ Desire is pounding in my head like dried blood.

I am wriggling./ I am a snake skin/ buried deep in the ground.

 My heart has broken into thousands of pieces./I drink wine from its fragments .

I am getting drunk from several cups at a time.

 Goblets are genitalia flowers of various shapes. /Where it starts to get interesting,/ we are short of words.

#strenthoflove

Performance Art must be beautiful

Performance Art must be beautiful. artist must be beautiful was a openning ceremony of the exhibition at Walk Thru gallery. I readed my personal manifest covering all body with mud. The voice of Marina Abramović iconic performance was the sound of situation. Than I ran away through the city, than was swimming in the fontain.

#goodnightpatriarchy