bio
breath.
being with.
affective
reverberation/s
cosmic,
curiosities,
rhythmic traces
exhale.
Juliana España Keller, PhD is a Canadian/Swiss/British Sound Performance & multi-media artist engaged in radical entanglements in sonic practices through speculative research that draws attention to listening as a relational capacity and a philosophical and temporal process. Her research framework of acoustic care and collective resonant ecologies is entangled with human-non-human contact that engages in fluctuating multi-sensory immersive spatial installations with sensing subjects and tactile experimentation within participatory practices.
She/Her is a sessional faculty member of Concordia University, Studio Arts program in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Juliana lives between Montreal, Quebec and Alhaurín el Grande (Malaga) Spain performing and regularly exhibiting in local, national, and international settings, experimental sound festivals, conferences, and museums. She has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications on sound art, intermedial and performance sound art practices.
Juliana was recently a PhD examiner for Aalto University, Arts & Design Program (2025) and a Visiting Professor at the Bauhaus University, Media Art and Design (MAD) – Master's degree program, Department of Acoustic Ecologies, in Weimar, Germany in November (2024).
In (2025) she followed up with a visit to the University of Manitoba, Studio Arts Program to deliver a Deep Listening workshop and present a sound work in plant sonification composed by her sound collective: CEREUS: radical ecologies of the anthropocene with co-composer, Alex Pépin, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
.She has recently returned from Helsinki, Finland as a speaker for: the CARPA 9 Conference on "Ecological design and Performance Pedagogies – sustainable practices and interdisciplinary acts in a climate changed world" (2025), UniArts, Helsinki, Finland. At the Theatre Academy she presented a sound performance with Butoh dancer, Dr. Laura Maillo, University of Malaga and a paper presentation titled: "MYCELIO: Entering into a Sonic Intra-Active Quantum Relation with Plant Life".
When Juliana is not teaching at Concordia University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Graduate Undergraduate Program in Studio Arts, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she directs 'Bajo el Olivo'—an experimental residency space in Andalucia, Spain dedicated to local Spanish sound artists who are looking for a private space to think, write and create during these exceptional times we are living on this planet.
This curatorial and artistic retreat is led and directed by Juliana during the summer months in Spain and is designed for artists and researchers who require a thinking space in nature that provides an environmental ecology of care, empathy and community building while the world is earnestly searching for social political and economic change. Juliana takes a posthuman approach to social engagement, social and spatial practices where quantum listening and locality as these core aspects are accentuated in our planetary future by conducting an affirmative ethical stance and committment to care and empathy as we think about and relate/live with technology, illuminating more expansive pathways forward for shaping divergent futures. .
My CV is available on request: juliana.espanakeller@concordia.ca
Faculty Profile, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Here are some of the affiliations I have with various research clusters:
- Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University (2024 - )
- Member, Mapping Future Imaginaries Group, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2020 –)
- The (3) Ecologies Institute & Senselab Network directed by Dr. Erin Manning & Dr. Brian Massumi. Montreal, Canada (2013 –)
- Active member: Ars Electronica, Malaga, Spain (2024 -)
- Le Parc Research affiliate, Milieux Institute, Concordia University (2025 - )
- SAT (Society for Arts & Technology), Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (2025 -)
Above: CARPA 9 Conference on "Ecological design and Performance Pedagogies – sustainable practices and interdisciplinary acts in a climate changed world" (2025), UniArts, Helsinki, Finland. Sound performance and paper presentation on: "MYCELIO: Entering into a Sonic Intra-Active Quantum Relation with Plant Life".
Adjacent: "Dismetroposia", La Termica, Malaga, Spain (2024). In collaboration with Cristina Savage & Maria del Mar Suarez (La Chachi).
BAJO EL OLIVO: my home studio in andalucia, spain.
