Emily Pothast

Emily Pothast is a visual artist, musician, writer and curator based in Seattle.  She is the frontwoman of the band Midday Veil and half of the installation/performance duo Hair and Space Museum with her partner and frequent collaborator David Golightly. Emily also writes the art blog Translinguistic Other, runs a record label of the same name, curates art exhibitions at her in-home gallery TaRLA Transdimensional Art Portal, and co-organizes multimedia music events as a member of the Portable Shrines Collective. 

The common thread connecting Emily's work in various media is an all-consuming interest in the performative, ritual eternal.  Her practice hinges on an interaction between gestural improvisation and a matrix of analog and digital electronic effects that reveal and reinforce the mediating functions of consciousness on subjective experience.  Since receiving an MFA from the University of Washington in 2005 Emily has performed and exhibited at a number of local and national venues including The Henry Art Gallery, NEPO House, and Seattle University's Hedreen Gallery—where she and David once staged a 12-hour improvisation, transforming the space into a vibrating pocket cathedral of deep, meditative light and sound.