Eden Attar is a Florida-born Quisqeyan-American artist, educator and organizer. She studied Anthropology at the University of Chicago where she was an Odyssey Scholar and Classical Musicology at Washington University in St. Louis where she was a Chancellor's Fellow. Her Master's Thesis Playing with the Music is an analysis of how listening as a social skill is taught using classical music on the children's television program Sesame Street.
Since 2022, Attar has lived and worked in Boston where she is known for her leadership of the Moon Swap, a monthly mutual aid gathering based on anarchist principles. She had her first solo show, The Sun, My Scars a Poppyseed, in 2025 at the Harvard Ed Portal's Crossings gallery, an interactive installation work which explored the metaphor of body as land. She was an artist in residence at the Harvard ArtLab in the summer of 2024, during which she produced the installation piece Bohio (home), a manifestation of a group of Taino Zemi'no who, fleeing colonialism by the U.S. and Europe have taken up residence in different public lockers around the country. In 2022--23 her interactive installation project and alternative computer network St. Louis smolnet was built with support from the Luminary St. Louis and the Andy Warhol foundation for the Visual Arts as part of the Luminary Futures Fund program.
Attar's work explores memories of displacement, acts of resurgence, and dreams of anti-colonial futures. In these explorations, her work makes use of interactive electronic and physical elements, live plants, food, 2-D art, and sculpture. Her work is heavily rooted in her research practice, which draws on anarchist, indigenous American, and Taoist philosophies; archaeology of the Caribbean; and her community practice.
Watch Linden Beer
"Linden Beer" tells a story of queer trans friendship around the seasonal act of collecting linden flowers. This film is a live recording of a reading of the story's text, written in Orca---an esoteric programming language for generating musical MIDI signals, in which every capital letter of the alphabet is an operator. Stretching the intended use of the language, "Linden Beer" is a story whose words create their own sonic and visual accompaniment.
