Surveying new territory, Juliana presents landscape images transformed and recounted through a performance on the “mountain” of Parc Mont-Royal, Montreal, last winter.
Through often purposefully illogical, uncommon or even anti-social in behavior and in action, performance can reveal how ideas of social morality are maintained. More specifically, her conceptual process has been strongly motivated by the shamanistic and psychological performance work of Joseph Beuys combined with research gathered from specific internet sites on the purported existence and ostensible legend of the “Sasquatch” or “Bigfoot”. Her work is also driven by preoccupations concerning the way in which meaning is constructed and transmitted though language and the way in which we interact and define our relationships with one another and with the world beyond the perimeters of our own bodies. She extends these concerns further by questioning the distinction between individual and collective freedoms, and moral and sensual values today. These ideas embody an aspect of modern-day story telling and the impact of urban myth in popular culture. She views this territory as artistic social and collaborative experiments that intersect with the realms of digital photography, video, and performance.