JULIA MELTZER
Julia Meltzer her work takes up subjects ranging from the bureaucracy of secrecy to contemporary politics in the Middle East. She frequently collaborates with Los Angeles based artist David Thorne to produce installations, photographs, and videos that raise questions about the uses of documents and their social, political, and affective impact.
Formerly working under the moniker The Speculative Archive, the artists’ collaborative activities from 1999 to 2003 examined the intersection of state secrecy, memory, and history. Newer works address the use of documents— ranging from images and texts to objects, people, and even physical structures—“to project and claim visions of the future,” according to the artists.
Meltzer taught at Hampshire College and UC Irvine. She received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a recipient of grants from Art Matters, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship Fund. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005–6 and is a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009-10. She since 2003 is founder and director of Clockshop, a Los Angeles based non-profit arts and culture organization.





- ° 1968 Hollywood, California (USA). Lives in Los Angeles.
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Links
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EVENTS
- Argos Media Library
- Tim Etchells - Order Cannot Help You Now
- Julia Meltzer & David Thorne
- Passages. La photographie dans l’art vidéo contemporain
- Interstitial Zones. Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present and Dialectics of Seeing
- Look at Me – Facial Expression and the relation to Image and Identity
- argos @ 16th Line Gallery
- COM nu TIES seuils/drempels/thresholds - A duoshow with ISELP
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At view in the media library
WORKS- epic (malhame)
- It’s not my memory of it: three recollected documents
- Not a matter of if but when: brief records of a time in which expectations were repeatedly raised and lowered and people grew exhausted from never knowing if the moment was at hand or still to come
- Take into the air my quiet breath
- We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass