Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Julie Adler Just another Fefifolios - Beans Sites site ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](http://julieadler.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## News - [Post-Silence Salon Series at the Pasadena Playhouse](http://julieadler.com/544/post-silence-salon-series-at-the-pasadena-playhouse/) - March 7, 2015 - [Close the Door Softly Behind You](http://julieadler.com/159/close-the-door-softly-behind-you/) - December 7-9, 2013 - [VICE Magazine June 2013 issue](http://julieadler.com/533/vice-magazine-june-2013-issue/) - June 2013 - [Residency at the Vermont Studio Center](http://julieadler.com/509/residency-at-the-vermont-studio-center/) - February, 2012 ## Pages - [Home](http://julieadler.com/) - Julie Adler is a visual and performance artist from Los Angeles. Her work examines what is lodged, stuck and bound and how voice and space penetrate the notion of a fixed reality. - [CV](http://julieadler.com/cv/) - JULIE ADLER b. 1962 in Los Angeles, California. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Education: 1999 MFA Visual Art and Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1996 BFA Visual Arts, Cooper Union, New York 1995 Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux - [Bio](http://julieadler.com/bio/) - Julie Adler is a visual and performance artist who uses a multitude of mediums including painting and drawing, music (composition and voice), installation, and video. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts and Music (voice) from California Institute of the Arts and BFA from Cooper Union in New York. She also did a residency in Paris - [Statement](http://julieadler.com/statement/) - I’m so curious about the uncomfortable ‘in between’ state, between having a voice and being muted, between having a body and not having one, between being caught and trapped or liberated, between life and the inevitable dissolution of it. So that’s what I make art about. And, also, particularly with regard to women, since that - [Contact](http://julieadler.com/contact/) ## Portfolio - [Anathema for a Few Bodies](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/anathema-for-a-few-bodies/) - A mythical musing through Manhattan and Montauk. The original inspiration for this piece came from the Sacre Coeur in Paris. Upon seeing a small statue of the Virgin Mary placed in a wooden box, I decided to make my own, that I could fit into. Then the box went on location. To Montauk where with - [2022 - present](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/2022-present/) - [Music](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/music/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M23HGaDteSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY9u_ap8ngs https://soundcloud.com/julieadler https://www.youtube.com/julieadler - [And then some...](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/and-then-some/) - [Innards](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/workbooks-1996-present/) - [Another Day on Earth (2023 - present)](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/another-day-on-earth-2023-present/) - [2019 - 2021](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/2019/) - [2017 - 2018](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/2017-2018/) - [2015 - 2016](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/2015-2016/) - [En Plein Air - Residency at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/en-plein-air/) - During a year’s residency in Paris (1994-95) at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, in the atelier of artist Annette Messager, I made this work. Considering the fact that I was quite ill most of that time, suffering from relentless skin rashes all over my neck and face and constant fatigue, I managed to go - [Many Days](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/many-days/) - [Another Day on Earth (2020 - 2022)](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/another-day-on-earth-2020-present/) - [Crushing Confirmation](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/crushing-confirmation/) - https://vimeo.com/593029506 - [7 x 7](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/7-x-7/) - 7x7 February 4, 2021 As if alone, relentlessly Vanessa Holyoak x Julie Adler http://7x7.la/as-if-alone-relentlessly/ - [Another Day on Earth (2017 to 2019)](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/another-day-on-earth-2017-to-present/) - [21 Taras](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/21-taras/) - [Another Day on Earth (2014 - 2016)](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/another-day-on-earth-2014-present/) - [2019 July Kamikazes @ Post - Tenuous Connections](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/2019-july-kamikazes-post-tenuous-connections/) - 2019 July KAMIKAZES at POST THURSDAY, JULY 18, 6- 9 PM POST @MiM Gallery, 4654 W. Washington Blvd., LA, CA 90016 TENUOUS CONNECTIONS New work by Julie Adler, Rochelle Botello and Eve Wood Curated by Eve Wood Tenuous Connections All connections are by their very nature, tenuous, hesitant, unreliable, yet it is our human conundrum - [Braids and balls](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/braidballs/) - An on-going play of braids and balls from Vermont to other places like Mono Lake, Joshua Tree and the Alabama Hills, CA. (2012-present). This investigation also relates to my performance piece/composition(s)/book called 'Lodged (in the Bosom of the Spacious Land)'. - [Do You See What I See?](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/do-you-see-what-i-see/) - (Images: left - Braille drawing (far-reaching), gouache on Braille paper, 8x10 ©2018 Eve Wood; right - The places nobody wants to go (1), 24x30, ink on canvas, ©2017 Julie Adler) New works by Eve Wood and Julie AdlerApril 7th through May 5th, 2018The Situation Room2313 Norwalk Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90041-2926 https://www.facebook.com/TheSituationRoomLA/ Opening Saturday, April 7, 2018, 4-7 pm and by - [My Call to Prayer](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/my-call-to-prayer/) - https://vimeo.com/227140133 ©1996 and... https://vimeo.com/227144455 ©1996 - [Miscellany](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/miscellany/) - [Another Day on Earth (2011 - 2013)](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/another-day-on-earth-2011-2013/) - [Another Day on Earth (2007 - 2010)](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/another-day-on-earth-2007-2010/) - [2012](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/2012/) - [2009-2011](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/2009-2011/) - [Lodged Part II](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/lodged-part-ii/) - https://vimeo.com/9058422 Lodged Part II (2002) is a music performance piece for voice and electronics. The video above is excerpted highlights. (Full length performance running time: 20 min) Here, I am accompanied by electronic composer and accompaniest, David Javelosa who manipulates the pre-recorded tracks as well as the live voice, adding another layer of instrumentation to - [Nothing is Broken](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/nothing-is-broken/) - https://vimeo.com/7805539 Nothing is Broken • movement #1 – What if I just…? • movement #2 – Who is Commanding Who? • movement #3 – I Remain in the Dark • movement #4 – Out of Sight, Out of Mind • movement #5 – Nothing is Broken This piece is filled with questions. Nothing is Broken - [Philomela](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/philomela/) - https://vimeo.com/8818210 These are highlighted edited excerpts from full length theatre piece (running time approx. 50 min). Based on the Greek myth of Philomela as recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and more currently eschewed by the poet Ted Hughes, this piece begins with a modern ‘Greek chorus’ of 4 talking heads that recites the basic tale: a - [Inbedded](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/inbedded/) - This piece began as a sculpture. I had the notion of being not just on the bed but inside of one. So I gutted the inside of a box spring mattress, fitted it with contact mics, florescent lights and a clear plastic top. I rigged the base so I could slide in and out of - [Campbell Hall Residency - Lodged (part III)](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/campbell-hall-residency/) - I was artist in residence in the Spring 2014 at Campbell Hall school in Studio City, CA, specifically learning about printmaking, and I experimented with a wide array of printmaking processes: etching, linocut, collagraph, monoprint, and photo-transfer, all of which were on view in the elegant Campbell Hall school gallery. For this show, some of the content for my imagery - [The Alien Within](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/the-alien-within/) - New York and San Diego, 1996 - [“Midnight Caesura” at Jaus Gallery](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/jaus/) - I was part of a group show, ‘Midnight Caesura’, curated by artist Eve Wood, at Jaus Gallery, in Los Angeles, from April 5th to May 19th, 2013. The group exhibition continued JAUS' 2013 program of 6 exhibitions based around a color or grouping of colors. For this offering, Wood proposed the word, "midnight" as in - [A Stone’s Throw](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/a-stones-throw/) - https://vimeo.com/9030908 From the Emissary to the Wanderer. They have messages for each other. Geophonic intersections Voices in the Strata (sphere). She crosses paths with Her. A geostrophic occurrence? Or a geodesic one? A stone’s throw…into infinity or a microsecond. This video contains highlighted excerpts from a performance by Jacki Apple and Julie Adler in Santa - [Same as I/Cut Through](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/same-as-icut-through/) - https://vimeo.com/7802261 This performance was part of 'Call & Response': A benefit concert for the Drepung Gomang Monastery in South India. Curated and produced by Julie Adler at REDCAT, Los Angeles, Feb. 2004 With Tibetan Monks from Drepung Gomang Monastery in South India and members of Cal Arts School of Music faculty and alumni: David Rosenboom, - [EarJam](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/earjam/) - Earjam (2000-2004) was a new music festival of LA, featuring LA based solo artists and groups, earbending innovation each evening which culminated in all cast improvised jams. It was launched in 2000 at Side Street LIVE downtown and curated and produced 4 different times by multi-media artist Jacki Apple and myself. I also performed on - [Chair](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/chair/) - https://vimeo.com/7805184 'Chair' follows the sorrowful existence of a woman, chair and environment. A perspective of abandonment and a fable of gendered performance and capital gone awry in an office space in downtown Los Angeles. “Initially mundane images of a trashed office building are complemented with rhythmic electronic music; eventually a strange conglomeration of woman and - [Caught](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/caught/) - https://vimeo.com/7967837 as part of Marin’s 21st Century Dance & Music Collaboration @ Marin Center Showcase Theatre (2001) Choreography by Heidi Landgraf and music by Julie Adler “With four performers, one of them singing Pandora Snailfly (composer Julie Adler) and Clarissa Berger’s fantastical costumes, Landgraf managed to create an insectarium of creatures yet to be classified - [Can Can](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/can-can/) - https://vimeo.com/7586011 2 TV monitors, live audio, two bobble heads, live legs – a performance and collaboration between performer/artists Julie Adler & Andrew Bucksbarg. A fanciful exposure of legs, virtual heads and the space in between. Figurative, literal, disembodied and obvious and then not so. Built around improv, the towering head videos are singing or making - [Next to the Pale](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/next-to-the-pale/) - Chair on wheels. Extended torso, more limbs. I decided to wheel this around the streets and it eventually became the video piece here as well as the main object in a theatre piece called ‘Vaginamouth’ for Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival as well as the featured ‘character’ in Chair, a video collaboration between myself and - [Improv with 2 Telephones](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/improv-with-2-telephones/) - https://vimeo.com/7806744 A collaboration between myself and multi-media artist, Andrew Bucksbarg altered the telephones for this piece. The desire here was to juxtapose ritual/instrumental actions, vocalization using the everyday common action of the telephone. Julie and Andrew move actions such as picking up the receiver, dialing, talking, and hanging up as well as exploring new possibilities - [Of Its W(h)ole(y)ness](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/of-its-wholeyness/) - Risking self-contempt, in the spectacle, ‘shut up, you’re making a scene,'how can I make a spectacle of myself and call it liberating? Questions to consider when creating something, I made a 4 1/2 foot high steel pedestal with red velvet base and revolving top. Standing tall, and wanting to feel what it is like to - [Tunnel Love](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/tunnel-love/) - https://vimeo.com/7806961 A spontaneous improvisational performance in Placerita Canyon, CA by composer/performer/collaborator Joshua Yang and myself. (1997) - [Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects - Summer Viewing Rooms](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/susanne-vielmetter-los-angeles-projects/) - "Summer Viewing Rooms" at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, July 13 – August 24, 2013. Artists: Julie Adler, Nick Aguayo, Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Mark Flores, Olga Koumoundouros, and Esther Pearl Watson. Six paintings from the series ‘Vacant Masses‘ were featured in the show. - [2013 - 2014](http://julieadler.com/portfolio/2013-2014/) ## Categories - [News](http://julieadler.com/category/news/) ## Collections - [Paintings](http://julieadler.com/collection/paintings/) - [Works on Paper](http://julieadler.com/collection/works-on-paper/) - [Performances + Moving Image](http://julieadler.com/collection/performances-moving-image/) - [Exhibitions](http://julieadler.com/collection/exhibitions/) - [2012 - Present](http://julieadler.com/collection/2012-present/) - [2008](http://julieadler.com/collection/2008/) - [2000 - 2004](http://julieadler.com/collection/2000-2004/) - [1995 - 1999](http://julieadler.com/collection/1995-1999/) - [Objects](http://julieadler.com/collection/objects/) - [Music](http://julieadler.com/collection/music/)