Julie M. Oneill.  

‘Redundancy in The Leisure Square'

A dish to be served up and presented for the duration of 2 hours, between 1 and 3 (with possibility of extension) on the afternoon of Saturday 21 st April 2007. The dish will be served at the entrance to five ways tower, Frederick Street (Off Islington Way , close to Auchinleck Square ).

  Ingredients for the dish :

  Chairs Aproximately: 25

Violin One

Female people Two

Business cards Approximatel: 25

Tape Yellow (Strong)

Outdoors setting Tower block entrance

Stories 100s of Thousands

Voices 100s of Thousands

 

'Redundancy in the leisure square' - will continue during the exhibition until the Sat 28th April, call 0121 666 7547 for details or email testbed@livearts.co.uk

Juile M Oneil

Julie's final piece was a performance at the foot of the monumental Five Ways Tower. The tower is a massive office block which was deemed unstable some years ago and has been empty since. Julie had arranged a large number of identical chairs between the huge columns at the base of the building in tight rows. In front of the chairs a lone violinist played plaintive airs while the wind blew through the space. Julie made a performance through the repetitive action of fixing

 

 

Originally trained as a Fine Art Sculptor who's work focused on mixed medium Installations utilising: found objects, self made multiples, audio, projects, writing, photography and any other 'thing' deemed relevant or appropriate to the work. These earlier Installation pieces always carried elements of a 'Live-ness' or Performance and the work continues to develop pieces which at times include Julie herself and other times do not. Within her work Julie often gravitates to themes connected to People and Architectural Histories, myth and factual with stories and fabricated characters playing major roles in previous pieces of work. The work also often carries a strong flavour of the autobiographical interwined with the aforementioned. The work is often sited in specific spaces or buildings which would have some form of strong attachement or relationship to the initial theme, the tangible feeding the intangible.

Whilst Julie's practice takes her into the Live Art, Performative (for example producing work for festivals such as Birminghams 'Fierce Live Art') and Fine Art exhibition platforms she has considerable experience working on socially interactive projects in the wider communities where her skills as a multi medium practitioner are ideally suited to the individuallity of off site projects. Activity within community settings is a area of strong interest for Julie with in particular to working environments (buildings and spaces), history of place and transformations of spaces.

Julie's other roles within the arts also cover extensive experience delivering projects within educational venues such as: secondary and primary schools. Alongside the ongoing schools educational projects are lecturing roles which inclulde delivering themes such as: Live Art/Performance, Video, Photography, Writing and Film.

Julie has collaborated with and been commissioned by such bodies as: City Councils, Arts Council England, National Education Projects such as Creative Partnerships ( London , Nottingham, Birmingham and Black Country ),

University of Wolverhampton , Libraries services Black Country, Springhill Institute ( Birmingham ), Friction Arts ( Birmingham ), Ikon Gallery ( Birmingham ), Guilermo Gomez Pena (Interntional Performance Artist), Visionary Images ( Melbourne , Australia ).