Ask For Rose
Galleri Kit and Gallery X, 2023
Ask for Rose is an ongoing performance project that centres the character, or alter-ego, of Rose. Available by phone, 24 hours a day for duration of exhibition, Rose is performed only when called (upon).
In the first iteration of the work, audiences were invited to phone the exhibited number, visible in a window gallery, and ‘Ask for Rose’ who, they were told, would read one of seven scheduled acts to them. The acts fluctuated between vignettes of fairy tales, found case files, diaries detailing explicit encounters, and a speculative screenplay.
(Act One) 5 am – 8 am
In Good Time
(Act Two) 8 am – 11 am
She
(Act Three) 11 am – 2 pm
Theatre of Death
(Act Four) 2 pm – 5pm
Repentance
(Act Five) 5 pm – 8pm
Deliria
(Act Six) 8 pm – 11 pm
Shangri-La
(Act Seven) 11 pm – 5 am
Listen with Mother
Abridged documentation of the individual acts has since been exhibited as audio and video installations, including within the Chicks for Speed installation ‘Sleep Synthesis’ exhibited at Louisiana Museum, Denmark as part of The Irreplaceable Human exhibition.
Rose Awaits
Liv Ullmann Suite, Britannia Hotel, 25 May 2024, as part of Amateur Love Machine
Rose emerged first as voice but appears now in the flesh. Rose Awaits is the culmination of an artistic research project investigating grief, performativity, and the maternal bond. In the one-on-one narrative performance, Rose, the character-cum-alter-ego borne of this research, meets her audience for the first time. In the hotel room that is her stage she acts as a kind of idol. One sent forth to embody its central tensions: spectacle, vocality, and propriety.
Supported by Kunstakademiet i Trondheim, Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst and Britannia Hotel
Rose Awaits, 2024
Performance
Rose, In Dialogue With, 2024 (Unpictured)
Artist book, metal bindings
Photo documentation by Ehsan Mollazadeh
Video documentation by Gustav Gunvaldsen