#PRESS RELEASE

OPPUSTELIG GLOBUS * INFLATABLE GLOBE ? JULIANA ESPAÑA KELLER

August 21st, 2009 at 14:00

Performance Location: ?Stjornaradid vid Lækjargötu?, Reykjavik, Iceland

In the performance,  ?Oppustelig Globus*Inflatable Globe?, Juliana España Keller is offering herself to the viewer as the peacekeeper from a far away land come to defend the Prime Minister of Iceland.  She uses masking, camouflage and excessive mimicry to act and to become the other; to transform, transpose and reflect on the everyday and miniscule, the fantastical and fabricated in order to be a part of something larger, as an individual or as part of a community and part of the global community.
In this highly suggestive and transient environment of an institutional building such as the ?Stjornaradid vid Lækjargötu?, Juliana will guard and defend its grounds and occupants with no weapons of mass destruction.  Juliana has approached the SIM house office or The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists [SIM] Artist Residency on her behalf to make a request to the Prime Minister of her action and hopefully she will be there for this event.
Juliana intends to center this project on issues of socio-political parameters.
In action, performance can reveal the way in which hearing; body language and gesture interact and define our relationships with one another and the world around us.

Born in Balham, London, England of Spanish and English descent, Juliana España Keller immigrated to New York City as a teenager. A multidisciplinary artist, teacher andIndependent curator, she now lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. Her work hastraveled to many international venues including causa y efecto at Galeria Nina Menocalin Mexico City (2004), Parameters of Fear at Muu Gallery in Helsinki, Finland (2004),Gravity at Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia (2007), VideoLAB Coimbra 2006 inPortugal and 300m3 Art Space in Göteburg, Sweden (2006). Her latest video installationwas recently exhibited in St. Johns, Newfoundland at Eastern Edge Gallery and she is presently in a SIM residency in Reykjavik, Iceland until the end of August 2009. Juliana is also a part of two performance collectives: WWKA [Women with Kitchen Appliances] and B.E. Canada. WWKA performed at the Montreal Museum ofContemporary Art as part of the Quebec Triennial (2008) and just participated in the Baie-Saint-Paul?s International Symposium of Contemporary Art.

Press kit and photographic material available.
Contact:

 
julie.keller@sympatico.ca
www.julianaespanakeller.com

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