Julie Ault

The seventh writer in residence is the American artist, writer, and editor Julie Ault

Julie Ault is an artist, writer, and editor who works both independently and collaboratively.

She has a somewhat open relationship to form and frequently takes on new modes.

She has adopted curatorial activities and editorial pursuit as artistic practice, recently using publication as a medium.

For many years her principal method was the temporary exhibition.

She sometimes explores something or someone that moves her—a sensibility she wants to connect to. She shares these inquiries through writings, books, and exhibitions.

She has engaged the artists Sister Corita Kent, Roni Horn, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Kinmont, Nancy Spero, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Benning, and Alejandro Cesarco among others.

In 1979 she cofounded the New York based artists collaborative Group Material which until 1996 explored interrelationships between aesthetics and politics.

Sometimes she collaborates with Martin Beck.

She has collaborated with Danh Vo and likely will again.

She is currently working with filmmaker James Benning on a book about his cabins project that investigates models of social isolation and inquires into the boundaries between dystopian and utopian principles inherent in varieties of seclusion and autonomy.

She is finishing her doctoral research in Visual Art at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, on the subject of how histories of ephemeral and peripheral activities in the art field are registered in the archive and shaped into fitting historical representations.