Rosie Benn is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Vienna, who's work engages in environmental discourses and ecology. Her work with video, installation and performative interactions explore non-linear narratives, often in which humour evokes an embrace for strain and contradiction, making space for complex meanings. `What’s easier to train, a cat or a human?’ was her final MA work in Art and Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2020. The Lecture-Performance explored ethical paradoxes encountered when raising cats as a vegan. Part critical reflection, part fantasy, the work oscillated between the empirical and scientific, including inspiration from her on-site research within projects such as forest gardening, biocyclic agriculture and animal sanctuaries. Rosie has exhibited and worked in art and cultural mediation internationally.
Exhibitions
THE LANDING IS ON FRIDAY, EVENT OF SPECULATIVE ECOLOGY
Essence, Angewandte Universität der Kunst
Exhibition
Vienna, 2019
48 hour happening between trees and ruins,
Transcarpathia (Ukraine), 2018
MEET THE UNIVERSE
Exhibition
Aula der Wissenschaften
In collaboration with Cuántico, HEPHY and Art@CMS
Vienna, 2019
STATE OF THE COMMUNITY
Video Installation at conference
Dhillon Marty Foundation, Unesco
Paris, 2018
STUDIO FRANKENSTEIN
Radio piece for Ö1-Kunstradio |
Live date: March 4, 2018
CIRCUIT TRAINING
Exhibition
das weisse haus Gallery
In cooperation with CERN (art@CMS and HEPHY – Institute of High Energy Physics).
Vienna, 2017
DIALOGICAL SEMINAR
Dialogical performance within exhibition 'Beweis zu nichts' by Marcel Odenbach
Kunsthalle
Vienna, 2017
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO
Collective Performance
PS2 Gallery
Belfast, 2017
FUTURE UNDONE
Performance within exhibition
AIL (Angewandte Innovation Lab)
Vienna, 2017
THE BALKON REFUGEE ROUTE, A PATHWAY TO SOLIDARITY
Performance and installation at conference
Europa House
Vienna, 2017
IMAGINE ALL THE DATA
Exhibition
Heiligen Kreuzer Hof
Vienna, 2017
WEIRD SISTERS, WICKED BODIES
Durational performance
The British Museum
London, 2014
WEIRD SISTERS
Durational performance
Richmix Theater
London, 2014
Creative Work
Assistant Curation Designer, 3D Construction Planner, Japan Unlimited, Museum Quarter Freiraum, 2019.
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Concept and Creative Workshop Leader, with Space Social Space, Afrieurotext, Public Space, Diakonie, 2018.
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Theatre design workshops, S.P.I.D Community Theatre, London, 2014.
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Design for immersive performance and interaction, PunchDrunk, The Princes Trust, 2014.
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Theatre Design workshops, Shakespeare in Shoreditch, Ideas Tap, 2014.
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Assistant Designer, Immersive Theatre, RIFT, Harper Collins, The Ritz, 2014.
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Installation Designer, Secret Productions for Secret Garden Party, 2014.
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Participatory Artist, BBC Events and Creative Department in collaboration with Amelia Johnstone and Welsh National Opera, 2014.
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Art Director, Music Video, NextDoorFilms and Visonquest, 2013.
Education
2017 - current
MA Art & Science, Angewandte Universität der Kunst, Vienna
2011 - 2014
BA Illustration, Cardiff Metropolitan University
2008 - 2010
ND Graphic Design Leeds College of Art & Design
Awards
2018
Preis der Freien Szene, with collective project antifaschistisches Ballett