Rosie Benn is a transdisciplinary artist based in Vienna. Her practice is inspired by dialogical aesthetics and queer ecologies. Her work explores environmental discourses through non-linear narratives and applies the technique of collage to various media. In 2020 Rosie completed her MA in Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her artistic research project limen was supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and Education Austria, the work of ethnographic fiction and video poem explored interspecies relations in biocyclic-vegan agriculture. Food production, eating and the so-called waste from these activities call into question the boundary between matter and the living. It is at these crosspoints that the inquiry of Rosie’s research is situated. Experimentation and poetic sense-making are vital to the process, daydreaming and humour are seen as valid resources in negating capitalist, imperial modes of living and world-making. Rooted with an interest in the everyday implications of such modes of being, Rosie collaborates or dwells with activist, scientific groups and situated stakeholders that are engaged in practices of interspecies care.

 

Rosie currently works with philosopher Florian Heinze on a multimedia chapter within the publication Animated Wor(l)ds; Language and Relationality for Multispecies Kinship, editors Eva Spiegelhofer (Anthropocene Network) and Elizabeth Tavella (Ecozon@). In this collaboration Rosie and Florian will draw on their previous work within critical animal studies by further exploring a post-anthropocentric understanding of liminal beings within vegan agriculture. Aspects of solidarity as well as interspecies conflicts will be reflected in light of feminist care theory and via artistic-scientific methods. Rosie is also working with the organisation wurmsystems (wurmkiste) on a project supported by the Action for Sustainability Hub in which the first five worm hotels in Vienna are being established, her role is to collaborate on the artistic process within this multispecies project aimed at redefining waste.

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Exhibitions / Performances

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ANIMALS AND LANDSCAPES

Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS)

Edge Hill University

Multispecies Storytelling Network

Liverpool, 2022

limen Film Screening

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BIOZYKLISH-VEGAN VERNETZUNGSTAGUNG

Ökohaus

Frankfurt, 2022

limen Film Screening

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AGRI_CULTURE, WIEN WOCHE

Festival for Art & Activism Vienna

Vienna, 2022

limen Film Screening

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UNDERLAND

VBKÖ   Verein für Bildende Künstler:innen Österreich

(Association of Visual Women* Artists Austria)​

Vienna, 2022

Exhibition

Collective Anthotype from organic waste

Poetry and sound

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THE SPACE BETWEEN OUR TOES

Mz*Baltazar's Lab, 

Vienna, 2021

Exhibition

Workshops and performance

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WHAT'S EASIER TO TRAIN, A CAT OR A HUMAN?

Klima Camp bei Wien

Vienna, 2021

Climate activist festival

Lecture-Performance

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MOUNTAINS PAINTED BY CATS,

Moos Atelier

Vienna, 2020

Exhibition

Artistic Book and Lecture-Performance

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MEET THE UNIVERSE

Aula der Wissenschaften

In collaboration with Cuántico, HEPHY and Art@CMS

Vienna, 2019

Exhibition

Film

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THE LANDING IS ON FRIDAY, EVENT OF SPECULATIVE ECOLOGY

Essence, Angewandte Universität der Kunst

Vienna, 2019

48 hour happening between trees and ruins,

Transcarpathia (Ukraine), 2018

Exhibition

Interactive installation

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STATE OF THE COMMUNITY

Dhillon Marty Foundation, Unesco

Paris, 2018

Conference

Film

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STUDIO FRANKENSTEIN

Ö1-Kunstradio |
Live date: March 4, 2018

Collective artistic radio piece

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CIRCUIT TRAINING

das weisse haus Gallery

In cooperation with CERN (art@CMS and HEPHY – Institute of High Energy Physics).

Vienna, 2017

Exhibition

Film

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DIALOGICAL SEMINAR

Kunsthalle

Vienna, 2017

Dialogical performance

within exhibition 'Beweis zu nichts' by Marcel Odenbach

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EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO

PS2 Gallery

Belfast, 2017

Collective Performance

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FUTURE UNDONE

AIL (Angewandte Innovation Lab)

Vienna, 2017

Performance

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THE BALKON REFUGEE ROUTE, A PATHWAY TO SOLIDARITY

Europa House

Vienna, 2017

Conference

Performance and installation

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IMAGINE ALL THE DATA

​Heiligen Kreuzer Hof

Vienna, 2017

Exhibition

Installation

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WEIRD SISTERS, WICKED BODIES

The British Museum

London, 2014

Durational performance

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WEIRD SISTERS

Richmix Theater

London, 2014

Durational performance

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Creative Work

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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.