Julio Cann González (also Parch Es) is an experimental composer, performer, and transdisciplinary artist from Mexico City, presently based in Berlin. His work often speculates about time travel, nonhuman subjects, and portals between worlds. His multimedia practice assembles elements from across places, peoples, and periods to create contingent narratives that disrupt the linearity of human experience. It embodies fluid identities and transitory subjects, evoking Virgil Abloh’s view of the artist as “someone who moves things from one place to another.”
He holds a BFA in Recorded Music from New York University and an MFA in Composition, Experimental Sound Practices, and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts. Working at independent record label Chimera Music, he earned production credits on albums by Yoko Ono and John Lennon, among others. He has written scores for theater, film, and virtual reality, and collaborated with philosopher Armen Avanessian on happenings at Kaaitheater in Brussels and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. He has been artist in residence at Banff Centre, CultureHub, and is currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. In Mexico, his work is hosted at the historic Galería de Arte Mexicano.