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Julia Heyward's work centers around the orchestration of music, image, and language in the areas of multimedia performance, new media and visual art. After a decade of solo performance, Heyward staged No Local Stops which won a BESSIE for ‘Outstanding Performance of the Year for 1984’, presented by DTW New York Dance and Theater.
Julia Heyward, once known by the pseudonym "Duka Delight," is a multi-media artist whose performances and moving-image works orchestrate sound, language and image into indelible symbolic compositions.
In the back room of the CCA Wattis, Julia Heyward’s wild voice in her performance and video, This Is my Blue Period (1977), ran loud over the absorbing refrain of her more poppy music video, Dragging the Bottom (sung with T-Venus, 1984).
Julia Heyward • Interdisciplinary Multimedia Artist Education Washington University School of Fine Arts (BFA Fine Arts) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MFA Digital Art 2003) Publications Holland Cotter, The New York Times, Art Review, October 31, 2013.
Artist Julia Heyward discusses artistic influences on her generation of performance artists, as well as her works on view in the exhibition Rituals of Rented...
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1. Julia Heyward - At Home In the Dark (Heyward, Hoberman) Julia Heyward - Reptile Smile (Heyward, Christensen) Julia Heyward - Eye for an Eye (Heyward, Kott, Loop) Julia Heyward - As Above So Below (Heyward, Hoberman) Julia Heyward - Shiny New Things (Heyward, Kott) Julia Heyward - Jimmy (Heyward, Lucas, Ali) Julia Heyward - Clown Song ...
New York artist Julia Heyward utilises language as a central tie in a career that spans video, performance, music, installation, photography and collage. Named after her 1979 video, her solo exhibition Conscious Knocks Unconscious at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco explores her multidisciplinary output between 1971–84.
