Julia Feyrer

Julia Feyrer
Born 1982
Victoria, British Columbia
Nationality Canadian
Education Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste

Julia Feyrer (born 1982) is a Canadian visual artist, performer, and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1]

Life and education

Feyrer was born in Victoria, British Columbia.[1] She obtained a Bachelor of Media Art at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2005 and completed her MA at the Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main in 2010.[1]

Artistic career

Julia Feyrer’s practice is cross-disciplinary, with a focus on photography, film, and mixed media installations. Her photographic work can be described as continuing to challenge "alchemical transformations of the daguerreotype" of staged settings recorded as historical documents.[2]

Solo exhibitions

Kitchen, grunt gallery, 2014

In her exhibition and residency at grunt gallery, Feyrer transformed the main gallery space into a site-specific environment to engage with materials and documentation she retrieved from the grunt archives.[3]

grunt gallery curator Vanessa Kwan wrote texts over the course of the exhibition and residency which are available for the public at the gallery or through their website.[3]

Alternatives and Opportunities, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, 2012

Alternatives and Opportunities was Feyrer’s first show at Catriona Jeffries Gallery. The show included 16mm film, sculptures, and daguerreotype prints.[4] Among the works included was The Artist’s Studio (2012), a three-part daguerreotype based on Louis Daguerre’s daguerreotype of ‘an artist studio’ taken in 1836. In Little pitchers have ears (2012), Feyrer created a binaural microphone in the shape of a head that recorded her walk around the museum spaces of the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, BC.[4] Her film, Dailies (2012), documents the production of clocks, which are described as being, "each ‘alive’ yet paralyzed in their moment, performing a durational yet non-progressive trick precariously and nervously."[4]

The daguerreotypes of The Artist’s Studio (2012) were acquired by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC., in 2012.

The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar, Artspeak, 2010

Feyrer’s first solo exhibition, The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar (2010) was held at Artspeak in Vancouver.[1] It consisted of a 9-minute film based on an installation that recreated a late 19th century Vancouver bar on the 300-block of West Cordova Street.[5][6] Her interest in the Vancouver bar came about when she encountered an archival photograph of the bar’s vacant interior.[6]

The materials used in Feyrer’s installation were, "cedar bark, vine, maple twigs, moss and fungus."[7] Her voyage to Squamish, B.C. to retrieve materials informs us how, "the city’s economic base has shifted from primary to tertiary industries."[6] What could not be sourced from Squamish was found on Craigslist.[6] Feyrer then used the bar as a social gathering place where she served wine made from the yard’s apples, performed musical and literary performances, and lastly, as a set for her film.[6]

Group and collaborative exhibitions

Feyrer met fellow Canadian artist Tamara Henderson in Frankfurt in 2007 and they have since informed each other’s artistic inquiries, culminating in several collaborative exhibitions. Their first collaborative work was the screening Ett historia den objekt, snö vax skugga, There Ain’t No Cure (2010) screened in Berlin, Germany.[8]

Feyrer and Henderson collaborated and were included in the group exhibition Insomnia at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden. This exhibition "revolved around sleeplessness as a cultural symptom." It brought "together a group of contemporary artists" and "key works by Andy Warhol" amongst other artists. Feyrer and Henderson's works are "manifestations of excursions into different modes of consciousness."

Feyrer and Henderson have three notable collaborative exhibitions: Bottles Under the Influence: Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2013); Tamara Henderson and Julia Feyrer: Consider the Belvedere at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2015); and The Last Waves at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2016).[9][10] These exhibitions are seen as a three-part project taking place in three different galleries.[11] Andre Breton’s Surrealist texts, such as the First Surrealist Manifesto (1940), are often referenced when discussing the collaborators’ artworks.[11] Further, Breton’s The Communicating Vessels (1939), which connects the nature of Surrealism with everyday objects, serves as a passageway into Feyrer and Henderson’s collaborations, which engage with film, sculpture, installation, performance, and book objects.[11] Their exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery was described as being able to "plunge us into a world of dreams"[10] such as the ones we unconsciously experience during our sleep.[10] Their collaborative art practice layers a myriad of references to film and literature while simultaneously expressing an interest in the symbolic significance of the materials they use.[12]

Feyrer has also participated with other artists in several group exhibitions at museums and galleries, including Jewish Museum, New York City; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada; Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver; and Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany.[13]

Writings

Julia Feyrer’s Surrealist investigation allows her art practice and writing to inform and intersect one another. Feyrer is the co-editor of the online audiozine Spoox and author of a series of artist books from Perro Verlag Press.[14][15][16]

Publications

  • Feyrer, Julia. Script Ruin by Page Turner. Vancouver, BC: Perro Verlag, 2014.
  • Feyrer, Julia and Tamara Henderson. Les Bouitelles de la Table Ronde. Vancouver, BC: Perro Verlag Publishing, 2013.
  • Feyrer, Julia and Erik Lavesson. The Rotting Husk. Frankfurt, Germany: Leonhardi Kultur Projekte, 2012.
  • Feyrer, Julia. The Wandering Art Metropole Publications and Ephemera Archive. Vancouver, BC: Project Space, 2012.
  • Feyrer, Julia. Scrap Book. Vancouver, BC: Perro Verlag Publishing, 2010.
  • Feyrer, Julia. Comedy Tragedy. Vancouver, BC: Perro Verlag Publishing, 2009.
  • Editor, Spoox Audiozine, Issues 1 - 8. 2006 - 2010.
  • Editor, Upsilon Epsilon Magazine, Issues 1 - 3. 2004 - 2006.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Julia Feyrer · Works — Catriona Jeffries". catrionajeffries.com. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  2. ↑ Fung, Julia. "Julia Feyrer." Review of Alternatives and Opportunities by Julia Feyrer. Art Papers Magazine. May/June, 2012, pp. 25.
  3. 1 2 "grunt gallery | Kitchen". grunt.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  4. 1 2 3 "Julia Feyrer "Alternatives and Opportunities" at Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver •Mousse Magazine". moussemagazine.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  5. ↑ Turner, Michael. "The Poodle Ornamental Bar and Vancouver’s Subtracted Future." Review of The Poodle Ornamental Bar by Julia Feyrer. Artspeak Postscript. 10 December 2010. Accessed March 09, 2017. http://artspeak.ca/the-poodle-dog-ornamental-bar/
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Turner, Michael. "The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar | Artspeak". artspeak.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  7. ↑ Birch, Jesse. "Julia Feyrer: The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar." Hunter & Cook, Issue 8. Winter 2011.
  8. ↑ Paolinelli, Nathalee (3 August 2010). "JULIA FEYRER (CA) & TAMARA HENDERSON (CA) | 01 Magazine". zero1magazine.com. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  9. ↑ "Eccentric, Polymorphous, Abstract: Vancouver Art and other Mythologies of the Near-Future," by Andrew Witt for The Mainlander, published January 14, 2017, accessed March 23, 2017 http://themainlander.com/2017/01/14/eccentric-polymorphous-abstract-vancouver-art-and-other-mythologies-of-the-near-future/
  10. 1 2 3 Laurence, Robin (2016-09-14). "Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson plunge us into a world of dream logic". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  11. 1 2 3 Prince, Erica. "Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: Consider the Belvedere." C Magazine: Autumn 2015, pp. 61.
  12. ↑ Bowling, Tim (9 February 2016). "The Mid-Life Creator & The Blur in Between – Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  13. ↑ "ICA - Philadelphia, PA - Spring Opening Celebration and Walkthrough". Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  14. ↑ "SP**X". spooxaudiozine.org. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  15. ↑ Feyrer, Julia (2009). Comedy tragedy. Vancouver, B.C.: Perro Verlag Books by Artists. ISBN 9781897243572.
  16. ↑ Feyrer, Julia (2011). Scraps. ISBN 9781897243763.
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