Juliacks (born April 9, 1986) is an American
artist,
filmmaker
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, performer-choreographer,
cartoonist
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, and
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
living in the U.S. and the
Netherlands
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Her feature film, performance, and comics project, ''Architecture of An Atom'', has been published, screened, performed and published at the Moderna Museum of Malmö & Stockholm, the Musee d'art Contemporain of Lyon, Centre d'Art Contemporain of Geneve, the Kiasma Museum of Art with the
Helsinki Comics Festival
Helsinki Comics Festival is an annual free cultural event in Helsinki, Finland. It has become the largest comics event in North-Europe. The festival is typically held in early September.
The festival has been organized by the Finnish Comics Socie ...
, ALT_CPH in Copenhagen and other contexts in France, Canada, Denmark, Italy, and Portugal.
Published in independent magazines and anthologies internationally, including ''
The Graphic Canon
''The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals'' (Seven Stories Press) is a three-volume anthology, edited by Russ Kick, that renders some of the world's greatest and most famous literature into graphic-novel form. The firs ...
'', ''
Lumpen'' magazine, ''Insect Bath'', ''Zeroquatre'', ''Kutikuti'', Windy Corner and ''Unicorn Mountain'', in 2009,
Sparkplug Comics
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published her collaboration with
Olga Volazova, the comic book ''Rock That Never Sleeps''. While in Finland on a
Fulbright Grant
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for performance art, she made the comic art book and film ''Invisible Forces'', that was taken on tour. Her graphic novel ''Swell'' premiered as a play at Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival March 2012 in New York.
Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival March 2012 in New York
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References
External links
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''New York Times''
Review of ''Comics Swell'' & ''Invisible Forces''
''The Comics Journal''
Interviews
''UTNE'' magazine
''Impose'' magazine
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Living people
1986 births
American filmmakers
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights