Jana Astanov is a multidisciplinary artist, a poet, and an independent curator who lives in New York. Born in Poland, she studied anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics in France, and arts in the UK. She is a founder of CREATRIX Magazine: www.creatrixmag.com, a portal for creative expression focused on art, activism, and spiritual practice. Her work includes photography, poetry, performance art, sound art, and installation. She describes her performance art practice as “mythology vs ideology”, referring to her two main interests: the political & economic foundations of our civilization, and mythological/religious values. In her work, she utilizes elements of hypnosis, spirituality, dance movement derived from the Grotowski technique, sound art, ritualistic theatre, and astro-feminism, a term she has developed through her character Yannanda – The One Who Speaks With The Stars. She has started three feminist performance groups, JeDeive (Self Proclaimed Goddess), Red Temple (also a publishing house) and W.I.S.E. focused on the global ecological emergency. Astanov encourages other women to create and write their own stories that she often includes in her performances and her magazine with an aim to portray the female world. Together with her partner, Niko van Egten, they have created an electro-organic music group, ASTRALOOP, featuring her poetry set to his dark electronic arrangements.
She has performed at Tate Modern, Queens Museum, Smack Mellon Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, Venice Biennale, Documenta 2017, and many other galleries, festivals and independent venues worldwide.
She is also the author of five collections of poetry: Antidivine, Grimoire, Sublunar, The Pillow Book of Burg, and Birds of Equinox.
Web:
www.creatrixmag.com
http://www.janaastanov.com/
Social media:
IG @Jana_Astanov https://www.instagram.com/jana_astanov/
Twitter @JanaAstanov https://twitter.com/JanaAstanov
Fb JanaAstanov https://www.facebook.com/jadeiverasos
Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/antidivine
https://soundcloud.com/astraloop