Graphite Test Pattern for Eva Hesse
graphite on mylar, 4 unbound signatures
2013
Julian A M.P. is a multi-disciplinary artist who currently resides in Tkaronto*. They are grateful to be able to live in the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.
Julian is a queer, trans-masculine, second generation, northern-European settler who was born in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton).** At 18 they moved across the country to attend The National Theatre School of Canada,*** and this experience of displacement from family and community alongside the demanding training program had a profound impact on their experience of identity, body, memory, and the senses. They followed theatre with degrees in music (voice, McGill University), studio arts (Concordia University) and an MFA (studio/sculpture) from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.****
Julian’s studio practice is situated alongside their membership in pandemic parenthood and in the casual, academic workforce. They work with language (failure), drawing, sound, video, performance and installation. They recently published Pictura: Essays on the Works of Roy Kiyooka, and released their first, full-length album Poets Barrio TV as one-half of Private Robots.
*Tkaronto is also known as the City of Toronto.
**Amiskwacîwâskahikan (ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ), meaning “beaver hills house,” is the nehiyawewin itwewin (Cree name) for the territory also called Edmonton. It is located on Treaty 6 Territory, home to many nations including the Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Nakota Sioux and Métis Peoples and to the second largest Indigenous population north of the 49th parallel.
***NTS is located in Tiohti:áke (Montreal) on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk), a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. Originally referred to as Tiohti:áke in Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk), or Mooniyang in Anishinaabemowin, this site is also the traditional home of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg peoples who have long ties to the region.
****The region known as the city of Chicago, is the ancestral land of the Potawatomi, Odawa, Sauk, Ojibwe, Illinois, Kickapoo (Kiikaapoi), Miami (Myaamia), Mascouten, Wea, Delaware, Winnebago, Menominee, and Mesquakie as well as many other Indigenous nations.