Zara Julius

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Zara Julius (1992) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and cultural worker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also the founder of Pan-African creative research and cultural storytelling agency, KONJO. Working with sound, video, performance and image-based installation, her practice involves the collection, selection, collage and creation of archives (real, imagined and embodied) through extensive research projects. Informed by her working methodology of ‘rapture’, Zara Julius is especially engaged in thinking through the internal workings of the Black sonic, and how they might help us imagine new futures, and experience different present(s) in the face of various unfreedoms, as well as thinking through the carceral logics of intimate and museological archiving practices. Many of Zara’s projects have focused on mapping the sonic and spiritual mobilities of spiritual rapture and rupture with congregants of syncretic traditions, and on (post)apartheid / (post)colonial narratives around race, place and time as. As a vinyl selector, Zara’s sets reflect her desire to travel land, seas and time.

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