Julio César Palacio is an artist and researcher whose practice explores listening, orality, transmission, and memory as ways of understanding the relationships between people, communities, and territories. His work asks how experiences, stories, and knowledge circulate, transform, and endure over time, as well as the cultural and social infrastructures that make their transmission possible.
Through situated forms of research, he engages with questions of collective memory, identity, landscape, cultural resistance, and the ways communities construct, share, and preserve their histories. Rather than being defined by a specific medium, he approaches listening as a tool for knowledge production, a relational practice, and a way of inhabiting the world.
His practice adopts an organic and exploratory approach that does not seek a fixed materiality or mode of representation, but instead incorporates the tools and forms required by each context and project. While sound occupies a central place in his work, it expands into other languages and media whenever the questions he investigates call for it.
The artist combines sound, radio, voice, field recordings, moving image, site and sound-specific installations, social listening structures, and participatory formats presented through concerts, research projects, sound transmissions, radio productions, exhibitions, workshops, and compositions for contemporary dance, theatre, and film. At the same time, he incorporates sculpture, archives, publications, drawings, and other formats that allow him to explore different ways of recording, transmitting, and activating shared experiences, memories, and stories.
His work understands sound, voice, archives, and transmission not only as means of expression, but as ways of building community, preserving memory, and opening new possibilities for listening, attention, and collective imagination.
