Julie Weitz

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Julie Weitz, My Golem as The Great Dominatrix
1-channel HD video, 7:10m, 2018

Part of Frame Rate: Wild Art Party

Premiere of Julie Weitz’s The Great Dominatrix

Inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” (1940) and the Jewish myth of artificial intelligence, Julie Weitz’s character My Golem transforms into “The Great Dominatrix” to dom an inflatable globe in Part I of an ongoing video series. Transgressing cultural, religious and gender norms, “The Great Dominatrix” parodies historic anti-Semitic propaganda in an absurdist attempt to counteract today’s rampant xenophobia.

For WILD ART PARTY, artist Julie Weitz will perform in character for her first live performance as My Golem, her social media alter ego.

Julie Weitz is a visual artist, writer and educator based in Los Angeles. Her videos and photographs consider the psychological, physiological and social dimensions of virtual identity and her immersive installations examine our bodily relationship to the screen and moving image.

 

See Weitz’s performance and others:

Wild Art Party
Saturday, October 20 | 7 – 11 PM
Performances begin at 7:30 PM

at Blue Roof Studios
7329 S. Broadway Ave.
Los Angeles, CA, 90003

DJ set by def.sound

WILD ART PARTY is a series of rambunctious performance events aimed at providing a safe and supportive arena for diverse artists to show new performance work while growing and strengthening the Los Angeles experimental performance audience. It is laboratory for artists to exhibit their practice outside of more traditional arenas or institutional programs, to experiment, or show works in progress. These one night events are free and open to the public with several presentations of new work in a party atmosphere. The audience is encouraged to dance, encounter new and surprising experiences, and explore new connections to the greater community of performative work in Los Angeles.

 

Frame Rate is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

Support for Frame Rate is Provided by:
THE OFFIELD FAMILY FOUNDATION
LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE
LAND NOMADIC COUNCIL