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Julian Lorenza Sturz / ephemeral services

I view my artistic practice as a process of working through societal norms and power structures. I see myself as an observer, field researcher, and hacker attempting to read, (un)learn, disrupt, and subvert these scripts. I often focus on a specific location, institution, practice, or technology, exposing myself to it while observing and analyzing my own relationship to it. My work is interdisciplinary, informed equally by physical-choreographic and theatrical practices from both the performing and visual arts.

I decidedly view my artistic work as a socio-political mandate to question the self-evident, to test relationships of proximity, and to make visible that which has been split off, rejected, or found repulsive.

»ephemeral services« is my current artistic-performative project for exploring and testing intimacy, personal boundaries, and aspects of consent and care in mutual contact. Starting from the question of how time in capitalism must be made incessantly exploitable, I have looked for ways and possibilities to remove specific periods of time from this cycle of commodities and exploitability, providing my own time and attention as free services.

In 2026, I completed my MA in Performance Art at the HMDK Stuttgart.

I also studied German Studies and Classical Philology in Würzburg, as well as Theater Pedagogy and Visual Arts in Nuremberg.

Performances at: Theater Rampe, Staatsgalerie, FITZ, and Kulturkabinett Stuttgart; Kunsthalle SCHIRN Frankfurt; E-Werk Freiburg; PACT Zollverein Essen; Tafelhalle and Künstlerhaus Nuremberg; Kulturforum Fürth; LOFFT Leipzig.

Performer at the following festivals: Steirischer Herbst, Graz 2026; Performing Democracy, Freiburg 2026; Body and Building, Frankfurt 2025; CURRENT – Art and Urban Space Festival, Stuttgart 2025; Dynamo – Young Dance Platform NRW, Essen 2022

I have worked with or for: Lina Lapelytė, Julian Warner, PLAN MEE, CUTTY SHELLS, Karolin Stächele, SAAL FREI, Natalia Dominguez

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Performance Art
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Dance
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