JULIA DROUHIN
Julia Drouhin (she/her, VK7HAG) amplifies sound streams that reveal friction in sociality via radioscape, installation, gathering or collaborative performance.
Julia completed her Ph.D about the art of walking and broadcast impact in public space in Paris 8 France in 2011 before living in lutruwita/Tasmania (Australia), where she currently works with artists living with disabilities and youth in local communities.
She was a lecturer in Sculpture and time-based media at the School of Creative Arts in nipaluna/Hobart in 2021 and a peer assessor for Creative Australia for the last 3 years.
Julia has exhibited and performed both internationally and across Australia, including at LABoral (Spain), Gallery by the Harbour (Hong Kong), Kraken festival, Radio Revolten, Motto Gallery (Germany), Ars Electronica, RIU gallery with a Claudio Alcorso Residency (Italy), Sonic Protest, Electropixel9 (Paris), Castlemaine State festival, Bus Projects, Dark Mofo, Constance ARI, GoodGrief, Moonah Art Center, Splendour in the Grass...
In 2022, Julia was an artist in residency at Radio Art Zone in Luxembourg to provide 22 hours of live broadcast, mentor youth through workshops at the recycle centre / day shelter Formida and contributed to the edible program A Table! with a blindfolded lunch.
She was part of the Instrument Builder Project (IBP5) engaging artists from Australia and the Asia-Pacific curated by Contemporary Art Tasmania, Volcanic Winds and Liquid Architecture for Mona Foma 2021.
She undertook a mentorship at the Structures Sonores et Cristal Baschet supported by the Australia Council for the Arts at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France in 2019 to study water based instruments made primarily for autistic children. She explored this instrument during the 2019 Australia Art Orchestra residency creative music intensive. Situate Art Lab 2016 supported her collaborative street walk and score-book commission by Vrystaat Festival (South Africa) in 2018: Altitude Immersive Radio.
She won the Swiss Giuseppe Englert Prize 2014 of Rencontres Architecture Musique Ecologie to produce a Musical Mall Clock in Launceston for Junction festival in lutruwita/Tasmania.
She recently worked with dodgem cars with Anand Kumar at the Plimsoll gallery in lutruwita after a RAWspace residency at the Theatre Royal and developed a Feedback Foodhack project of video and zine with Dylan Sheridan.
She collaborates regularly with Edith Perrenot for their LPA project which includes cuddle machines and emergency exercise in an empty swimming pool.
Julia was a finalist at the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania in 2019 with Phillipa Stafford for their Sisters Akousmatica’s work primarily supported by Next Wave festival curator mentorship 2016. Together they were the recipients of the 2023 Rising Tide Award during their feral frequencies residency at Wave Farm in the US.