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A spontaneous improvisational performance in Placerita Canyon, CA by composer/performer/collaborator Joshua Yang and myself. (1997)

Risking self-contempt, in the spectacle, ‘shut up, you’re making a scene,’how can I make a spectacle of myself and call it liberating? Questions to consider when creating something, I made a 4 1/2 foot high steel pedestal with red velvet base and revolving top. Standing tall, and wanting to feel what it is like to […]

Chair on wheels. Extended torso, more limbs. I decided to wheel this around the streets and it eventually became the video piece here as well as the main object in a theatre piece called ‘Vaginamouth’ for Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival as well as the featured ‘character’ in Chair, a video collaboration between myself and […]

These are highlighted edited excerpts from full length theatre piece (running time approx. 50 min). Based on the Greek myth of Philomela as recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and more currently eschewed by the poet Ted Hughes, this piece begins with a modern ‘Greek chorus’ of 4 talking heads that recites the basic tale: a young […]

This piece began as a sculpture. I had the notion of being not just on the bed but inside of one. So I gutted the inside of a box spring mattress, fitted it with contact mics, florescent lights and a clear plastic top. I rigged the base so I could slide in and out of […]

A collaboration between myself and multi-media artist, Andrew Bucksbarg altered the telephones for this piece. The desire here was to juxtapose ritual/instrumental actions, vocalization using the everyday common action of the telephone. Julie and Andrew move actions such as picking up the receiver, dialing, talking, and hanging up as well as exploring new possibilities the […]

2 TV monitors, live audio, two bobble heads, live legs – a performance and collaboration between performer/artists Julie Adler & Andrew Bucksbarg. A fanciful exposure of legs, virtual heads and the space in between. Figurative, literal, disembodied and obvious and then not so. Built around improv, the towering head videos are singing or making sounds, […]

as part of Marin’s 21st Century Dance & Music Collaboration @ Marin Center Showcase Theatre (2001) Choreography by Heidi Landgraf and music by Julie Adler “With four performers, one of them singing Pandora Snailfly (composer Julie Adler) and Clarissa Berger’s fantastical costumes, Landgraf managed to create an insectarium of creatures yet to be classified by […]

From the Emissary to the Wanderer.  They have messages for each other.  Geophonic intersections Voices in the Strata (sphere).  She crosses paths with Her.  A geostrophic occurrence?  Or a geodesic one?  A stone’s throw…into infinity or a microsecond. This video contains highlighted excerpts from a performance by Jacki Apple and Julie Adler in Santa Monica […]

Lodged Part II (2002) is a music performance piece for voice and electronics. The video above is excerpted highlights. (Full length performance running time: 20 min) Here, I am accompanied by electronic composer and accompaniest, David Javelosa who manipulates the pre-recorded tracks as well as the live voice, adding another layer of instrumentation to the […]