“She’s fast developing a signature style for exciting, witty and synergistic group exhibits”
Tag: Press
Canadian Art review of Faux Naturel
“Given my prejudices, I found Faux Naturel – a group show celebrating some of the many wonderful ways artists have contrived to recreate woodland splendours, but without all the mucky bits – just my kind of walk in the park… Faux Naturel reminded the sensible viewer (and me) that, exotic and mysterious as nature may be, it’s best left to its own devices.”
Post-Standard reviews Come On
“Provocative, original work that is sure to grab your attention and occasionally push you to the edge of discomfort… For some, it takes a shock to light the fires of contemplation.”
Other Exhibitions at Warehouse Gallery
Other exhibitions and events organized for Syracuse University’s Warehouse Gallery, 2007 – 2008
Artforum on LTTR
“the contents of the journals do not conform easily to categories, and often blur the lines between art, criticism, and fiction… it is always a finely wrought object.”
Video Pool reviews Let’s Get Tested
“Astria Suparak’s performance […] brilliantly set up the themes of the program. Let’s Get Tested explores the schism between the methodology of science and foible-filled humanness. For the most part, the tapes affirm the value of the ineffable and the elusive: immeasurable phenomena such as playfulness and pleasure. […] Let’s hope that Suparak continues with her zealotry, criss-crossing the globe as a present-day video prophet”
RES profile on Suparak: “Programmed to Stun”
“What she really wanted to do was blow the minds of viewers with unctuous erotica, politically motivated old school avant-garde retorts, hyperbolic tales, and, well, all the great stuff that hardly anybody shows anymore, much less puts together with loving attention to aesthetic nuance and fertile, thematic collision. Noting that part of her project entails seducing viewers to witness unconventional works, she also helps foment a network of artists and like-minded exhibitors.”
The Independent profile on Suparak: “Experimental media curator as rock star”
“At age twenty-four, Astria Suparak has already invented an unstoppable experimental film enterprise. As curator-on-wheels, she is aggressively building sexy niches for visceral and demanding new films and videos by cutting edge artists from around the world, who may seem freaky or misplaced in traditional art or film world contexts.”
LA Weekly reviews Looking is Better than Feeling you
“Suparak’s terrific show will set straight anyone who thinks that women’s media is on the wane.”
Art Voice on Looking Is Better Than Feeling You
“These works address ideas of looking – of the pleasures and intimidating powers of The Gaze – in subtle ways. These artists are asking questions that cannot and will not be answered by manifestoes; they are forcing the viewer to look, and to look at them and their lives.”
New Times on Dirges & Sturgeons
“The champion of this raw, creative art form is Astria Suparak, a New York-based film curator who’s on a tour”
The Statesman on Looking Is Better
“Some of the biggest names in contemporary performance and video art celebrate women acting up and acting out in Looking Is Better Than Feeling You”
Telerama feature on microcinemas and Suparak
“A l’avant-garde de cette scène bouillonnante s’imposent des figures hybrides, comme la jeune et jolie Astria Suparak. Pour les programmes de courts métrages ou de vidéos qu’elle choisit et assemble, la New-Yorkaise de Brooklyn va chercher le public là où il se trouve, dans les musées ou dans les clubs, les cafés ou les discothèques.”
The Independent profile on Suparak: “A New Romantic T.V. Sound”
“At age twenty-four Astria has curated all over the U.S. and Europe, testing out new programs at NY’s best venues and then touring with them like a kid with a band. She comes to you: museums and galleries, universities, independent/underground film festivals and micro-cinemas, as well as public places like bars, community centers, and living rooms.” – Miranda July
The Independent reviews Keep In Touch!
“…the curators’ gossamer touch with heavyweight artists and themes.”
SF Bay Guardian on Dirges & Sturgeons
“Playful laments indeed, these new works use lo-fi aesthetics to critique high technology and mass-produced culture.”
Shakenstir review of Boxhead Ensemble
“Compelling, magnetic, perfectly imperfect. This is performance art at the cutting edge but eminently accessible and personal. It is relevant, it is wonderful.”
Kurtzfilmmagazin on Dirges & Sturgeons
“Following the resounding success of her programme at the Anthology Film Archives (NYC), curator Astria Suparak is now taking Dirges and Sturgeons on a tour of five American cities. In New York the programme… received accolades from both filmmakers and the press.”
Cashiers du Cinemart reviews A New Romantic T.V. Sound
“Peripatetic curator-at-large Astria Suparak presented an excellent program of ephemeral and often willfully hermetic short films and videos titled A New Romantic TV Sound.”
The Stranger reviews Broken Music
“strong of theme, and a must for visual music fanatics.”
BUST on Some Kind of Loving
“If you have any interest at all in women in film and video today, you should definitely get this tape.”
RES reviews Some Kind of Loving
“An appealing anti-aesthetic. Coarse and scruffy, yes, but also very hot, in a weird sort of way.”
Village Voice
“Peripatetic curator Astria Suparak has an eye for the strange and ineffable.”
New York Press on the underground cinema scene
“Suparak[‘s screenings were] spun with a superlative curatorial taste that combined a savvy political consciousness and sexy indie-rock-style showmanship without ever losing crucial nerd cred.”
Chicago Reader on Broken Music
“New York film curator Astria Suparak assembled this wonderful program of videos on experimental music in which a variety of artists put familiar instruments and objects to unusual uses, showing that the seen world is alive with sonic possibilities.”
Village Voice panel on experimental film resurgence in NYC
“A particular mode of filmmaking has begun to flourish again in New York, fueled by young enthusiasts and newcomers… We asked a number of knowledgeable parties to discuss the current scene”
Other Screenings at Pratt
The Pratt Film Series was a weekly program dedicated to showing work not easily accessible to the public and to forging ties across disciplines including performance, music, painting, sculpture, animation, theater, and architecture. Over the course of three years, Suparak presented work from 18 countries, spanning nearly the history of cinema, as well as hosted guest filmmakers and performers, traveling film and music festivals, and collaborations with other New York City venues.
