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Julia Meltzer's work with David Thorne has been awarded prizes at the European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale and the Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival.

Not a matter of if but when: brief records of a time in which expectations were repeatedly raised and lowered and people grew exhausted from never knowing if the moment was at hand or was still to come, 2006

Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
Not a matter of if but when: brief records of a time in which expectations were repeatedly raised and lowered and people grew exhausted from never knowing if the moment was at hand or was still to come, 2006
Video
32 minutes
Arabic and English subtitles
In collaboration with Rami Farah
Film still

Biography

Julia Meltzer's artwork has been exhibited at Modern Art Oxford,UK; HomeWorks IV, Beirut and Whitney Biennial, New York, among others.

She is the recipient of Art Matters grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship Fund, the Guggenheim Foundation, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005–6.

She is a fluent Spanish speaker and proficient in Arabic spoken dialect.

This person was part of Sharjah Biennial 10

Not a matter of if but when: brief records of a time in which expectations were repeatedly raised and lowered and people grew exhausted from never knowing if the moment was at hand or was still to come

projects

Not a matter of if but when was developed in 2005-2006 in Damascus, Syria.

It’s not my memory of it: three recollected documents

projects

It’s not my memory of it is a documentary based on interviews conducted in 2000 with people who manage intelligence information in the US government.

Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial

publications

Accompanying and complementing the main premise of Sharjah Biennial 10, Plot for a Biennial explores the concept of a ‘conversation’ through printed matter.