Nov 27th 2018

Julia Dratel: Intellectual Property: Closing Reception

@ Elastic Arts

3429 W Diversey Ave, Ste 208, Chicago, IL 60647

Opening Tuesday, November 27th, from 7:30PM - 10:30PM

Please join us to celebrate the final night of “Intellectual Property”: A solo show of work by Julia Dratel. Julia will be DJing!

“Intellectual Property” is a collection of photographs (film and digital), moving images, and words by Julia Dratel that are caught in the ongoing negotiation of internal and external worlds. The assembled works together form ruminations and queries into trauma and memory, capitalism and social control, kinds of information and kinds of taking up space, family, and portraits of the living and nonliving. She is interested in blurring still life, the intimacy of documentary, and performance through imagery that is both casual and surreal.

Species among us understand
the buoyancy: not
rising but a refusal
to sink, a long
convergence.

Julia Dratel grew up in New York City and lives in Chicago. She studied Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She is a photographer, filmmaker, writer, producer/organizer, DJ, drinker of iced coffee year-round, and bug-lover.

Her work has appeared in/at The Wire, The Chicago Reader, Jezebel, Denver Quarterly, Tone Glow, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Render International Music Video Festival (Vancouver, BC), Fridman Gallery (NYC), Sol Koffler Gallery (Rhode Island School of Design), Elastic Arts (where she also produces experimental performance & community programming), the Hideout, and elsewhere. She also regularly collaborates with musicians and visual artists, with recent projects including a video installation with The Weaving Mill, a music video with Mind Over Mirrors, and album art for Devouring the Guilt, Ken Vandermark’s Marker, and Circuit Des Yeux. She has also made a feature-length experimental documentary/oral history film, Battery Park City, about her neighbors’ first-hand experiences of September 11th, 2001 and the nature of communicating traumatic experience.

Dratel is also currently the in-house video producer at Thrill Jockey Records. She DJs a weekly radio show “Souled & New” on WHPK and co-produces a monthly comedy-and-leftist-organizing showcase Monkey Wrench with Arish Singh. She has also done video/multimedia work on behalf of defense for people fighting incarceration.

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