Juliana Luecking is a musician, spoken-word artist and video maker.[1]QueenJuliana is her YouTube channel where People Are a Trip, a series filmed in public places in New York City, is featured. Luecking's videos were instrumental in Picture New York's 2007 fight to protect the rights of NYC artists to shoot video and take pictures free of police harassment.[2]
Luecking was part of the Washington, DC music and poetry scene during the 1980s, and made the seven-inch record Wheel on Simple Machines Records with the band Holy Rollers. The A-side of her second record, She's Good People on Kill Rock Stars, was recorded at the 1992 DC Riot Grrrl convention with bassist Bernard Wandel. The B-side was a a collaboration with musician Steve Elson. Kill Rock Stars also released the 30-track spoken-word CD Big Broad,[3] a full collaboration with Steve Elson, and DreamCumGoDown, a humorous CD of field interviews with women, made with Eve Beglarian.
She is the lyricist and vocalist on Your Key In My Pocket, made with musician Akiko Carver on Semiautomatic's CD, Resident Genius. Luecking also lent her voice to Le Tigre's recording New Kicks on the CD This Island, and to Dyke March 2001 on Le Tigre's Feminist Sweepstakes. The Bikini Kill song, Rebel Girl, as well as the title track on Luecking's CD Big Broad, were inspired by Luecking's friendship with Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna.
Luecking performed at rock clubs between bands, and at numerous poetry venues. Washington, DC: Positive Force, d.c. space, 9:30 Club, Washington Project for the Arts, Riot Grrrl. Baltimore: Maryland Art Place. San Francisco: Queercore Festival, Bearded Lady, Luna Sea. Portland, OR: SPRGRL Convention. Olympia, WA: International Pop Underground Convention. Philadelphia: Painted Bride Arts Center, Middle East, Community Education Center. New York City: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, St. Mark's Poetry Project, The Puffin Foundation, The Kitchen, Knitting Factory, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place.
The Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded Luecking a Media Arts Grant and a Performance Art Grant, and the New Forms Regional Grant Program awarded her the Interdisciplinary Grant and Residency at Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia. Luecking was also twice-selected as Artist-in-Residence for the DC Youth Outreach Program. She now lives in New York City.