Prologue
June 2025
This poem is the first in the show Julia wrote to perform at Hidden Door 2025: "the many-faced artist as a young woman's portrait". Each poem in the show is a different ‘face’ of the artist, for example, explaining the ironic performativity of an Insta photoshoot in an art gallery, pitching herself to a wealthy patron benefactor, accepting a posthumous award as a ghost, or a slug wallowing in self-pity. 'Prologue' introduces the artist as equal parts fascinated, multifaceted, and facetious.
Experiences of an Exhibit Attendant
September 2022
Julia participated in the British Council Venice Fellowship Programme and worked as an Exhibit Attendant in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022. As a Fellow, she was tasked with undertaking a creative project. She produced this spoken word / music EP in response to the experience of exhibit attending.
Experiences of an Exhibit Attendant
September 2022
Julia participated in the British Council Venice Fellowship Programme and worked as an Exhibit Attendant in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022. As a Fellow, she was tasked with undertaking a creative project. She produced this spoken word / music EP in response to the experience of exhibit attending.
to love and to be loved
Spring 2020
Julia Sorensen collaborated with poet Ari Zak and producer Evan Oddleifson (Grub) to write this spoken word / music concept album for a show at SkirtsAFire 2020.
While Ari’s work displays a growing ambivalence with the state of herself and the world as a whole, Julia does her best to contend with the brokenness this shared outlook creates. Their thoughts on loving, being loved, and simply being might just show you how to sew your pieces back together, or at least inspire you to begin to pick them up.
Sanctuary
Fall 2017
Julia is (predictably) a Shakespeare fan just as much as she's a fan of considering possibilities and what-ifs. Her song "Sanctuary" is based off of her favourite lines from Hamlet and is designed to be a conversation Hamlet and Ophelia never had.
The music video was directed and edited by Adrianna Rangelhoff with the help of Holly Mazur as part of Amplify Festival.