Juliana España Keller

Expanded Spaces Residency Program, curated by Abraham Hurtado
Nea Livera, Greece | November – December 2024
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A becoming with a research-creation project, that is transdisciplinary and covers many areas of the visual arts with a philosophical approach to dialogue and exchange. We are and have always been attached to the universe in a relational processual way. We are all interconnected with plant life vibrating at different internal frequencies.

For my own research purposes, I am investigating a conceptual relation between humans and plant life as an acoustic shimmering ecology – to communicate a posthuman, symbiotic understanding of vegetal matter as a morphological force that (re)shapes, (re)affirms our sonic intra-relations to the natural world. This proposition is molecular and metaphysical, as sound matter is of a qualitative multiplicity in the quantum field of listening.

BIO

Juliana España Keller, PhD is a Canadian/Swiss/British Sound Performance & multi-media artist engaged in radical entanglements in sonic practices through speculative research that draws attention to listening as a relational capacity and a philosophical and temporal process. Her research framework of acoustic care and collective resonant ecologies is entangled with human-non-human contact that engages in fluctuating multi-sensory immersive spatial installations with sensing subjects and tactile experimentation within participatory practices. 

She/Her is a sessional faculty member of Concordia University, Studio Arts program in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Juliana lives between Montreal, Quebec and Alhaurín el Grande (Malaga) Spain performing and regularly exhibiting in local, national, and international settings, experimental sound festivals, conferences, and museums. She has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications on sound art, intermedial and performance sound art practices.

Juliana was recently a PhD examiner for Aalto University, Arts & Design Program (2025) and a Visiting Professor at the Bauhaus University, Media Art and Design (MAD) – Master’s degree program, Department of Acoustic Ecologies, in Weimar, Germany in November (2024). 

In (2025) she followed up with a visit to the University of Manitoba, Studio Arts Program to deliver a Deep Listening workshop and present a sound work in plant sonification composed by her sound collective: CEREUS: radical ecologies of the anthropocene with co-composer, Alex Pépin, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

She has recently returned from Helsinki, Finland as a speaker for: the CARPA 9 Conference on “Ecological design and Performance Pedagogies – sustainable practices and interdisciplinary acts in a climate changed world” (2025), UniArts, Helsinki, Finland. At the Theatre Academy she presented a sound performance with Butoh dancer, Dr. Laura Maillo, University of Malaga and a paper presentation titled: “MYCELIO: Entering into a Sonic Intra-Active Quantum Relation with Plant Life”.

When Juliana is not teaching at Concordia University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Graduate Undergraduate Program in Studio Arts, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she directs ‘Bajo el Olivo’—an experimental residency space in Andalucia, Spain dedicated to local Spanish sound artists who are looking for a private space to think, write and create during these exceptional times we are living on this planet.