Having spent some time progressing her career in the poetry community as event organiser, host and editor, Julia Sorensen returns to Hidden Door with a work entitled “The many-faced artist as a young woman’s portrait” – a tragi-comic tapestry of roles a young femme artist takes on to develop her body of work.
Each poem a different (and facetious) ‘face’ of the artist, for example, explaining the ironic performativity of an Insta photoshoot in an art gallery, pitching herself to a wealthy patron benefactor, accepting a posthumous award as a ghost, or a slug wallowing in self-pity.
Julia Sorensen is a published writer, musician and visual artist. She first performed at Hidden Door in 2022, where she performed a feature-length music / spoken word work entitled “a little bit of everybody,” producing audio tracks which paired with the poems’ cadence and tone.
We invited Julia down to The Paper Factory ahead of her performance to record a preview of her work:
