J. Saragosa  
         

Selection of Sound Art



    An interactive web-based queer ASMR piece using acoustic close-ups to show how the sum of the parts of a queer body (visible and audible) is read subconsciously in order for a perception of queerness or gender to be made. This work brings those body parts (hair on the upper lip, legs) and accessories of queer life (sequins, queer books, latex gloves) to the foreground.  

    How can the digitization of human connection, mediated through the touch of mouse clicks and calming sensual audio whispers, bring us (queer bodies) a sense of interconnection in an ever more isolating post-pandemic world?


    "Let Me In"
    April–July 2021, Digital Carnival Z // 
    online media arts festival
    July–Aug. 2020, Vector Festival // Online is the new IRL
    Video clips by Juli Saragosa: 
    Title Video "Let Me In", "crunchy ASMR", "do you read me?", "flippy sequins", "no future?", "notice your breath", "pet me?", "run outside?", "sparkle with me?", "stay radical and queer!", "touch your face?"

    Video clips by other creators:
    "creature comforts" by Mishann Lau and K.I., "exterior legs" by Harvey Rabbit, "rope slide" by Ann Antidote and Lun Ário, "tasty lipstick" by Mimi Monstroe

    Credits for the adaptation for 'Digital Carnival Z' that includes ASL Interpretation, Audio Description and a downloadable mobile app:

    Development Lead: Deanne Achong
    iOS and Android Developer: Gunwoo Kim
    Project Manager: Yun-Jou Chang, Minah Lee
    Audio Description Consultant: Rebecca Singh, George Quarcoo
    ASL Consultant: Lisz Keallen
    ASL Interpreter: Jenny Laing


    "Here Now Manifesto for an Interconnected Future"
    Oct. 2019, Peripheral Intuitions (Berlin, DE)

    Modern science has proven that a human body is made up of more foreign bacteria than actual human DNA. One human body is a collective system of many organisms. If we imagine all of those various organisms working together to ‘be’ us, we can also take it a step further and imagine how all humans and other beings on the planet are interconnected in working together to ‘be’ our world.
     
    A guided meditation on sounds that give us the feeling of interconnectedness served as inspiration in the creation of a collective audio soundscape manifesto made by Asya Stolbina, Juli Saragosa, Juan-Carlos Dozal, Nikias, and Thibaut Bournazac.




    An Audio Poem written from personal experiences with ‘migration background,’ the stereotypes thereof, and the complicated relationship between being a settler who is also a migrant. In broken German, referring to the harmful myths of what the Germans call ‘Indianer’ and the ongoing colonization in the country known as ‘Canada’ of the First Nations people of Turtle Island.
    "Migrationshintergrund"
    April 2018, Dokublog



    "Soundwalk (a bridge & a bus)"
    May 2006 (East Vancouver, CA) 

     A soundwalk through the neighbourhood of Strathcona. For a collaborative project coordinated by Chris O’Connor and Hildegard Westercamp.
    "Laugh of Privilege"
    Nov. 2015, Echos + Netze Das Trans*tonale Hörfest (Berlin, DE)