Julia Jerome Julia Jerome works at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and performance, probing how expansive social and technological systems are inscribed onto the human body. In their practice, the body functions as a site of somatic learning, where abstract structures are felt, negotiated, and embodied.

Their materials—rawhide, steel, and, most provocatively, human relationships—carry preexisting histories of pressure, labor, and control. These substances arrive with sedimented forces; their resistance, duration, and relational dynamics generate the work’s conceptual and formal rigor. Materials are not inert: they perform, bearing traces of past use and authority, enacting histories that exceed the artist’s hand. Proximity, effort, and constraint operate as both method and medium.

Jerome’s parallel life as a queer underground impresario and AI safety advocate extends these concerns into social and technological networks, convening experimental communities while interrogating how artificial intelligence might be aligned with human values. They bring over a decade of experience orchestrating audiences, atmospheres, and total environments in underground culture, positioning their work at the nexus of relational, material, and systemic critique.