Julie Vulcan is a Sydney based interdisciplinary artist. Her practice spans from video sound installations, performance/live art/durational work, to accumulative/net projects.
Along the way Julie has performed with many quirky, cutting edge and unreasonable ensembles. Stilt walking across Northern Europe with Icarus, tackling b-grade horror and embracing the awkward with the all-girl group Frumpus and inhabiting unreasonable romance with Unreasonable Adults, to name a few.
Julie has a commitment to research based and self devised practice and believes in setting up challenging processes to augment her explorations and developments. Self-initiated task driven projects offer a platform to investigate ideas and create opportunities to collaborate with other artists.
Driven by a desire to instigate audiences to question their own position, her work often situates itself in the very personal, soliciting contributions/responses from the public. She creates an environment where the micro is a reflection of the macro, believing that reducing experiences to the personal is sometimes the only way to make sense of larger global issues.
Themes from early work have established trends that still weave through current artistic investigations. Some of these include; a fascination with time and duration, how to collapse, expand and parallel it; drawing out notions of beauty in the grotesque; the joy of random collisions; exploring moments of uneasiness; questioning memory and the media that supports it; layers in place and the spaces inbetween.
Julie's work appears in theatres, galleries, windows, at events, online and sometimes unexpected places.