Rosie Benn is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Vienna. Inspired by dialogical aesthetics and critical queering of ecologies, her practice explores environmental discourses through non-linear narratives. Strain and contradictions can embrace and transform within trials of regenerative approaches to failure, applying the technique of collage to various mediums be it drawing, performance, video or situational works.
Could a new road or climate change be an invasive species? How do you welcome an alien? And what if we were cats, that is, Catastrophic Animals on Terra? Such odd questions are breeding grounds for the collective and solitary explorations of possible cosmologies and kinships. For Rosie, art is a process with which epistemologies can be poetically and holistically engaged. In which mess can make space for complex meanings and absurd truths.
Exhibitions / Performances
THE SPACE BETWEEN OUR TOES
Exhibition, workshops and performance
Mz*Baltazar's Lab,
Vienna, 2021
WHAT'S EASIER TO TRAIN, A CAT OR A HUMAN?
Lecture-Performance
Klima Camp bei Wien
Vienna, 2021
MOUNTAINS PAINTED BY CATS,
Moos Atelier,
Artistic Book and Lecture-Performance within exhibition,
Vienna, 2020
MEET THE UNIVERSE
Exhibition
Aula der Wissenschaften
In collaboration with Cuántico, HEPHY and Art@CMS
Vienna, 2019
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
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
Creative Direction, Video Editor, for media series by the Environmental Research Network (ERN), Vienna, current
Video Editor, for panel discussion and artistic research meeting All You Have to Lose is Ecstasy, The Intuitive, Somatic and Occult as Methods of Inquiry, host Monica C. LoCascio, within online conference Tabboo, Transgression and Transcendance, organiser Dalila Honorato, Assistant Professor at the Ionian University, 2020.
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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Artistic Director, Music Video, NextDoorFilms and Visonquest, 2013.
Education
2017 - 2020
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