JULIANA LUECKING
Writer and Performer
Juliana
Luecking performs as a spoken word artist and collaborates with choreographers
and underground musicians. Her recordings include the experimental documentary
CD DreamCumGoDown, and Big Broad, a CD of original monologues and
stories. Her most recent collaboration is Bang-Bang, a song with art band
Le Tigre. Chump is her first play.
In 1986, Luecking (lou'-king) began jumping on stage between bands at Positive Force shows in Washington, DC. She landed on Simple Machines Records' second release, Wheel, and on Dischord Records with the Holy Rollers CD, As Is. Olympia record label Kill Rock Stars (KRS), released her 7" vinyl, She's Good People. KRS also released Big Broad with music by Steve Elson, and DreamCumGoDown with sound design by Eve Beglarian. Selected stories are nationally syndicated by GuideWire Radio.
Luecking wrote and performed with the Electric City Video Collective in San Francisco. She performed in choreographer Marta Renzi's award-winning Vital Signs at Danspace at St. Marks Church, and at the Bessie Awards at the Dellacorte Theatre. Luecking merged spoken word and dance with Renzi in In Memoriam at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and with choreographer Cydney Wilkes in Crush and Loop-de-Loop. Video works with Luecking include: The Great Dykes of Holland, featured at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the NYC Mix Festival, and the London Gay Film Festival; Baltimore Joe's Thing, currently aired on east coast cable access television; and, Pearls, aired on PBS on WETA-TV's Independent View.
The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded Luecking a media arts grant in 1988 and a performance art grant in 1992. In 1990, she received an interdisciplinary grant and residency from the New Forms Regional Grant Program at the Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia. Luecking was selected as Artist-in-Residence for the District of Columbia Youth Outreach Program.Presenters of Luecking's work include: the Puffin Foundation, the Kitchen, the Knitting Factory, P.S. 122, Dixon Place, St. Mark's Poetry Project, Columbia University, NYC; the Painted Bride, the Community Education Center, Philadelphia; the University of Connecticut, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; Middle East, Boston; Michigan Women's Music Festival; Northampton Lesbian Music Festival; Riot Grrrl, DC, Positive Force, the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; Maryland Art Place, Baltimore; the QueerCore Festival, Bearded Lady, Luna Sea, San Francisco; the SPRGRL Convention, Portland; and, the International Underground Pop Festival, Olympia, WA.