Julieanna Preston

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New Zealand °1960
research interests: live art, spatial design, performance writing, new materialism, sound art, aurality
affiliation: College of Creative Arts, Massey University
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Julieanna Preston’s research spans architecture, art and philosophy. She has delivered live art performances and lectures in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden, Great Britain, and the United States and published widely in journals and books. She received a BARCH from Virginia Tech (1983), MARCH from Cranbrook Academy of Art (1990) and a PhD from RMIT (2013). Recent works include breath-taking at RE:Sound/ Media Art History (Denmark, 2019), Vital Tones at Voice and the Unknown (Sweden, 2018), four castings (Performance Research: On Writing and Performance 2018), murmur (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 2017), and Performing Matter: interior surface and feminist actions (AADR 2014). www.julieannapreston.space

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  • Sounding Out Vacancy: Performing (anything but) Empty Space (2019) author(s): Julieanna Preston published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This exposition translates the intentions and experience of the 2014 performance Sounding Out Vacancy as a piece of spatial writing structured by four voices operating in unison to contest ‘emptiness’ as a condition of interior space. The seven-day performance occurred in a street-level urban central business district retail shop that, like many other ‘for lease’ properties in the city, had stood empty for several months. Its glass façade obscured from view, the performance broadcast sounds continuously from the interior space to the general public as an alternative advertisement of the shop’s availability. During the nine-to-five work day, sounds were harvested from the interior where construction hand tools and material surfaces interacted as a process of virtual renovation. While the city slept, the ambient sounds of the space persisted and put the shop’s vacancy into question.
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