Zara Julius
b. 1992 Johannesburg
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Zara Julius is an transdisciplinary artist, researcher and cultural worker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her practiceis informed by a working methodology of “rapture”, and involves the collection, selection and creation of (contested) archives (real, imagined and embodied) through extensive research projects. She is especially engaged in thinking through the (an) archive, performativity, and the internal workings of the Black sonic, and how they may help us reconstitute Time, memory, affect, and History in the face of various unfreedoms and landlessness.
Zara holds a BAHons in social anthropology from the University of Cape Town (2014) and a MAFA in Fine Art by Research and Practice from the University of the Witwatersrand (2021).