Juliana Lueking
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Juliana Luecking is a musician, spoken-word artist and video maker.QueenJuliana is her YouTube channel where People Are a Trip, a series filmed in public places in New York City
, is featured. Luecking's videos were instrumental in Picture New York's 2007 fight to protect the rights of NYC artists to shoot video and take pictures free of police harassment.
Luecking was part of the Washington, DC music and poetry scene during the 1980s, and made the seven-inch record Wheel on Simple Machines Records with the band Holy Rollers. The A-side of her second record, She's Good People on Kill Rock Stars
, was recorded at the 1992 DC Riot Grrrl
convention with bassist Bernard Wandel. The B-side was a a collaboration with musician Steve Elson. Kill Rock Stars
also released the 30-track spoken-word CD Big Broad, a full collaboration with Steve Elson, and DreamCumGoDown, a humorous CD of field interviews with women, made with Eve Beglarian
.
She is the lyricist and vocalist on Your Key In My Pocket, made with musician Akiko Carver on Semiautomatic's CD, Resident Genius. Luecking also lent her voice to Le Tigre's recording New Kicks on the CD This Island, and to Dyke March 2001 on Le Tigre's Feminist Sweepstakes. The Bikini Kill
song, Rebel Girl
, as well as the title track on Luecking's CD Big Broad, were inspired by Luecking's friendship with Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna
.
Luecking performed at rock clubs between bands, and at numerous poetry venues. Washington, DC: Positive Force
, d.c. space, 9:30 Club
, Washington Project for the Arts
, Riot Grrrl. Baltimore: Maryland Art Place
. San Francisco: Queercore
Festival, Bearded Lady, Luna Sea. Portland, OR: SPRGRL Convention. Olympia, WA: International Pop Underground Convention
. Philadelphia: Painted Bride Arts Center, Middle East
, Community Education Center. New York City: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, St. Mark's Poetry Project, The Puffin Foundation, The Kitchen
, Knitting Factory
, Performance Space 122
, Dixon Place
.
The Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded Luecking a Media Arts Grant and a Performance Art Grant, and the New Forms Regional Grant Program awarded her the Interdisciplinary Grant and Residency at Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia. Luecking was also twice-selected as Artist-in-Residence for the DC Youth Outreach Program. She now lives in New York City.
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, is featured. Luecking's videos were instrumental in Picture New York's 2007 fight to protect the rights of NYC artists to shoot video and take pictures free of police harassment.
Luecking was part of the Washington, DC music and poetry scene during the 1980s, and made the seven-inch record Wheel on Simple Machines Records with the band Holy Rollers. The A-side of her second record, She's Good People on Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, making it difficult to pigeonhole as having any one artistic mission...
, was recorded at the 1992 DC Riot Grrrl
Riot grrrl
Riot grrrl was an underground feminist punk movement based in Washington, DC, Olympia, Washington, Portland, Oregon, and the greater Pacific Northwest which existed in the early to mid-1990s, and it is often associated with third-wave feminism...
convention with bassist Bernard Wandel. The B-side was a a collaboration with musician Steve Elson. Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, making it difficult to pigeonhole as having any one artistic mission...
also released the 30-track spoken-word CD Big Broad, a full collaboration with Steve Elson, and DreamCumGoDown, a humorous CD of field interviews with women, made with Eve Beglarian
Eve Beglarian
Eve Beglarian is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent...
.
She is the lyricist and vocalist on Your Key In My Pocket, made with musician Akiko Carver on Semiautomatic's CD, Resident Genius. Luecking also lent her voice to Le Tigre's recording New Kicks on the CD This Island, and to Dyke March 2001 on Le Tigre's Feminist Sweepstakes. The Bikini Kill
Bikini Kill
Bikini Kill was an American punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington in October 1990. The group consisted of vocalist and songwriter Kathleen Hanna, guitarist Billy Karren, bassist Kathi Wilcox, and drummer Tobi Vail. The band is widely considered to be the pioneer of the riot grrrl movement,...
song, Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl may refer to* a song on the Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah album by Bikini Kill* a song entitled The Rebel Girl by Joe Hill * Elizabeth Gurley Flynn or her autobiography entitled The Rebel Girl* a song by Endless Shame...
, as well as the title track on Luecking's CD Big Broad, were inspired by Luecking's friendship with Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna is an American musician, feminist activist, and punk zine writer. In the early- to mid-1990s she was the lead singer and songwriter of Bikini Kill, before fronting Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s...
.
Luecking performed at rock clubs between bands, and at numerous poetry venues. Washington, DC: Positive Force
Positive Force
Positive Force DC is an activist organization founded in 1984 by members of the punk community in Washington, D.C. It has organized hundreds of benefit concerts for community and activist groups, and worked alongside Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Nation of Ulysses, Girls Against Boys, Q and Not U and other...
, d.c. space, 9:30 Club
9:30 Club
Foo Fighters Promise to come back to D.C. and play the 9:30 ClubNightclub 9:30 is a nightclub and concert venue in Washington, D.C. Originally located at 930 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C., in the 1970s it was called the "Atlantis Club", and hosted primarily rock, New Wave, and punk bands...
, Washington Project for the Arts
Washington Project for the Arts
Washington Project for the Arts, founded in 1975, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support and aid of artists in the Washington, D.C. area.-History:...
, Riot Grrrl. Baltimore: Maryland Art Place
Maryland Art Place
The Maryland Art Place is a not-for-profit contemporary art gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. established in 1981. The gallery is located in the historic Pratt Street Power Plant on Baltimore's Inner Harbor....
. San Francisco: Queercore
Queercore
Queercore is a cultural and social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of punk. It is distinguished by being discontent with society in general and its rejection of the disapproval of the gay, bisexual, and lesbian communities and their "oppressive agenda"...
Festival, Bearded Lady, Luna Sea. Portland, OR: SPRGRL Convention. Olympia, WA: International Pop Underground Convention
International Pop Underground Convention
International Pop Underground Convention is a live compilation documenting the International Pop Underground Convention, a six-day festival held at the Capitol Theater in Olympia, Washington in August 1991. The festival was organized by Calvin Johnson, who also performs on the album as part of the...
. Philadelphia: Painted Bride Arts Center, Middle East
Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
, Community Education Center. New York City: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, St. Mark's Poetry Project, The Puffin Foundation, The Kitchen
The Kitchen
The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City...
, Knitting Factory
Knitting Factory
The Knitting Factory is a music venue and concert house with locations in Brooklyn, Boise, Reno, and Spokane. The club originally specialized in jazz and experimental music and has expanded to showcasing all genres of music, performing arts and comedy....
, Performance Space 122
Performance Space 122
Performance Space 122, generally known as P.S. 122, is a not-for-profit arts organization and one of the longest standing venues dedicated to contemporary performance art in New York City. Founded in 1979 in the abandoned Public School 122 building at 150 First Avenue at East 9th Street in the East...
, Dixon Place
Dixon Place
Dixon Place is an Obie Award winning, Off-Off Broadway New York City theater devoted exclusively to presenting original pieces of theater, dance, performance art and literature that are works in progress.-History:...
.
The Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded Luecking a Media Arts Grant and a Performance Art Grant, and the New Forms Regional Grant Program awarded her the Interdisciplinary Grant and Residency at Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia. Luecking was also twice-selected as Artist-in-Residence for the DC Youth Outreach Program. She now lives in New York City.
External links
- Profile at Kill Rock Stars