Rosie Benn is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Vienna inspired by dialogical aesthetics, critical theory, and queer ecologies. Her practice explores environmental discourses through non-linear narratives. Her work navigates regenerative approaches to failure, applying the technique of collage to various mediums such as drawing, performance, video or situational works.

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Could a new road or climate change be an invasive species? And what if we were cats, that is, Catastrophic Animals on Terra? Such odd questions are breeding grounds for explorations into the multifaceted aspects of human and more-than human interrelations, 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. 

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Exhibitions / Performances

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THE SPACE BETWEEN OUR TOES

Exhibition, workshops and performance

Mz*Baltazar's Lab, 

Vienna, 2021

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

Lecture-Performance

Klima Camp bei Wien

Vienna, 2021

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MOUNTAINS PAINTED BY CATS,

Moos Atelier,

Artistic Book and Lecture-Performance within exhibition,

Vienna, 2020

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MEET THE UNIVERSE

Exhibition

Aula der Wissenschaften

In collaboration with Cuántico, HEPHY and Art@CMS

Vienna, 2019

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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

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STATE OF THE COMMUNITY

Video Installation at conference

Dhillon Marty Foundation, Unesco

Paris, 2018

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STUDIO FRANKENSTEIN

Radio piece for Ö1-Kunstradio |
Live date: March 4, 2018

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CIRCUIT TRAINING

Exhibition

das weisse haus Gallery

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

Vienna, 2017

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DIALOGICAL SEMINAR

Dialogical performance within exhibition 'Beweis zu nichts' by Marcel Odenbach

Kunsthalle

Vienna, 2017

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EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO

Collective Performance

PS2 Gallery

Belfast, 2017

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FUTURE UNDONE

Performance within exhibition

AIL (Angewandte Innovation Lab)

Vienna, 2017

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THE BALKON REFUGEE ROUTE, A PATHWAY TO SOLIDARITY

Performance and installation at conference

Europa House

Vienna, 2017

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IMAGINE ALL THE DATA

Exhibition

​Heiligen Kreuzer Hof

Vienna, 2017

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WEIRD SISTERS, WICKED BODIES

Durational performance

The British Museum

London, 2014

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WEIRD SISTERS

Durational performance

Richmix Theater

London, 2014

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Creative Work

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Creative Direction, Video Editor, for media series by the Environmental Research Network (ERN), Vienna, current

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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.