Astria Suparak

December 3, Cornell Cinema, Ithaca: Dirges & Sturgeons
December 4, Ithaca College, Ithaca: Looking is Better than Feeling You
December 6, Sqeaky Wheel, Buffalo: Looking is Better than Feeling You

Astria Suparak (born in Los Angeles, CA, 1978) is based in New York. She curates site-specific shows for art spaces, alternative film festivals and theatres, music venues and bands. She then brings the shows to different audiences and venues including microcinemas, bars, living rooms, galleries, schools, and churches. In 1997 she developed a twice-weekly multimedia series at Pratt Institute of Art and Design in Brooklyn. She has also put together shows for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, The Knitting Factory, The New York Underground Film Festival, and the improvisational musical group The Boxhead Ensemble. Her videotape compilation Some Kind of Loving, produced by the alternative distribution network Joanie 4 Jackie and distributed by K Records, was released in 2000.

Right this second Astria Suparak is traveling across the Americas on her sixth tour in two years. She is curating custom shows for Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo (Mexico City) and Ladyfest. When at home alone she works on an upcoming show of drawings and projections.

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