About Julia
Documentary film
and artistic research
Julia Clever is a multidisciplinary Brussels-based artist and researcher raised in the highlands of the industrial Sauerland. She has a background in social psychology and anthropology (RUB), cultural sciences (VUB), audiovisual arts (RITCS) and performance studies (a.pass).
In her work, Julia redistributes perceived authorship to those formerly out of focus. She invites lecture and interpretation by spectators and bystanders into the narration build-up. Constellations by collage and home editing add intimate first-person storytelling and intertwine it with conversations with strangers held on the road.
Julia coaches urban artistic practice at RITCS for some years now. From 2020 on, she dove into action research at Odisee, methodologically refining projects of autobiographical storytelling. These raise awareness for conditions of social isolation or the experience of power relations by individuals facing institutions. Her current, artistic work is interrogating performative practices of appearance to foster collective agency and authorship.
Work
Resokit podcast
- Audio play -
Six Brusseleirs share their experience of social isolation. Together, we worked on a co-creative podcast series. What did their lives look like in the past? What led them to experience isolation? How do they experience it? What support do they receive, and what steps are they taking to overcome it?
Dutch spoken.Commissionary work for Odisee University College and the VGC.
Trying to catch the wind
– Arthouse film –
When my family moved house, war-testimonies of my deceased grandfather fell out of the closet: A photoalbum he had never shown us, a story he’d never told us, and a note: “Never speak ill of the dead”. This intimist home- and roadmovie builds constellations of memories with his shifting point of view, voices from my archive on war-re-enactment and my own. (Re-)constructing and embodying war memories opens doors onto underlaying identity politics.
Performing Liberation (only)
– Video installation –
In the choral work for many voices on multiple screens, I am investigating affective embodiment of memory in European “Living History” movements. The display case for this living archive of obligatory memory has kept developing over several years during its exhibition, in interaction with the collective memory of the public and with the architecture in the different places of exhibition.
Occupation
– Documentary film -
In this multilogue documentary, I assemble material generated by students, hungerstrikers and myself during the research-project „The performance as a Document/ The document as a performance“. It shows the collaboration of RITCS -students and “Sans papiers” during a hunger strike in a university’s parking lot, fighting to achieve a coherent regularisation procedure.
Learn more
Links
- https://sociaal.net/achtergrond/brusselse-ocmws-onder-de-loep/
- https://sociaal.net/verhaal/grootstad-vraagt-om-ander-sociaal-werk/
- https://sociaal.net/achtergrond/brusselse-ocmws-onder-de-loep/
- https://www.socialevraagstukken.nl/author/julia-clever/
- https://www.resokit.be/podcast/
- https://www.sampol.be/2024/04/de-binnenkant-van-sociaal-isolement
- https://odisee.prezly.com/eenzaamheid-in-onze-hoofdstad-kleine-daden-kunnen-een-groot-verschil-maken
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