Julian Day

Julian Day has presented work at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Jewish Museum, Fridman Gallery, MASS MoCA, Royal Academy of Music, California Pacific Triennial, Asia Pacific Triennial, Prague Quadrennial, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Institute of Modern Art, Artspace, Sydney Opera House, Carriageworks and Performance Space.

Day’s music has featured at such festivals as Bang On A Can Marathon, MATA Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Spitalfields Music Festival, Queensland Music Festival, MONA FOMA and Liquid Architecture, performed by TILT Brass, Lisa Moore, Synergy Percussion, Australian String Quartet, Ensemble Offspring, Decibel, Intercurrent, The Song Company and Zubin Kanga.

Since 2008 Day has facilitated Super Critical Mass, a ‘radical orchestra’ project that reimagines the traditional orchestra as a mobile vehicle for social interaction. In 2013 SCM opened the new Library of Birmingham, the largest such space in Europe, with a work for massed brass featured on BBC Two’s The Culture Show. In 2011 SCM made the front page of the New York Times’ arts section for SWELTER, commissioned by the MATA Festival.

Day has won various awards including the ARTAND Credit Suisse Contemporary Art Award, Samstag Scholarship, Peggy Glanville Hicks Fellowship, and Australia Council and British Council fellowships.

Day has curated many programs on experimental music on ABC and BBC radio, interviewing such figures as Vito Acconci, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Janet Cardiff and Christian Wolff. They have published in Leonardo Music Journal, Tempo and Contemporary Music Review and write regularly for Limelight magazine. Day has presented papers at Harvard, NYU, UCLA and Goldsmiths, and taught at Australian National University, Macquarie University and University of Wollongong.

Day’s work has been acquired by Orange County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Justin Art House Museum and Wollongong Art Gallery. They exhibit with Dominik Mersch Gallery.