Julia Scher
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Julia Scher is an American artist
who works primarily with themes of surveillance. She uses a variety of mediums and is most known for her installation art
and performance art
works. Her work addresses issues of control and seduction.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
who works primarily with themes of surveillance. She uses a variety of mediums and is most known for her installation art
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
and performance art
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
works. Her work addresses issues of control and seduction.
Artwork
Since 1988, Scher has produced a series of installations called Security by Julia. These have taken different forms but often involve a person wearing a security uniform and an invitation to the viewer to actively participate in surveillance culture. Other variations of the installations have included soothing voices and baby blankets.External links
Sources
- Brian Wallis, Andrew Hultkrans, Avital Ronell, and Bill Horrigan (2002). Always There, Lukas & Sternberg Publishers
- Scher, Julia (2002). Tell Me When You're Ready, Works 1990-1995, PFM publishers, introduction by Anna Indych