bio


breath in.

being with.

material

affective

reverberation/s

cosmic, crystallized

curiosities,

rhythmic traces

exhale out. repeat..

photo image: ©jenmacintyre2026 

Image "Dismetroposia", La Termica, Malaga, Spain (2024). In collaboration with Cristina Savage & Maria del Mar Suarez (La Chachi).

The curatorial and artistic retreat: BAJO EL OLIVO 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. .

Her CV is available on request: juliana.espanakeller@concordia.ca

Faculty Profile, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.


Here are some of the research clusters and organizations that Juliana is associated with:  


  • CIRMMT: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology. Collaborative Member. 
  • Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University (2024 - )


Juliana España Keller, PhD is a Canadian/Swiss/British sound performance & multi-media artist engaged in radical entanglements in sonic practices. Her speculative research draws attention to deep 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, Faculty of Fine Arts, Studio Arts program in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where she teaches in Design and Computational Arts, Painting and Drawing and ARTX: Interdisciplinary Art Practices.  

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.

In the summer of (2026) she will participate in two conferences as a speaker/lecturer at the University of Alcalá Madrid, Spain and the University of Granada, in Andalucia. 

In (2025), Juliana was 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 was invited 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.

Last summer Juliana travelled to 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 Juliana introduced a sound performance with Butoh dancer, Dr. Laura Maillo Palma, 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. 


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".

BAJO EL OLIVO: Juliana's  home sound studio in andalucia, spain.

modular synthesis:: 

what makes sound matter distinguishable 

                         from others and how it transforms on a granular level. 

                                         the transformative. 

                           amplitude and timbre 

                    and the inharmonic overtone spectrum are entangled 

                                with the psychological as aspects of perception. 

they are variable, individual, sometimes unpredictable in a time of planetary collapse and affective pain.