selected works
Sam’s solo practice is process driven and interdisciplinary in approach.
Her work has been concerned with the body as a site for exploring issues of gender, sexuality, and desire, and she is currently working within the context of one to one performance, researching notions of intimacy, exchange, and the senses.
She has worked collaboratively on past projects with sound artist Paul Taylor, and costume designers Emma Wilkes and Nadia Malik.
July
- August 2007
The
Performance of Intimacy Workshops
As
part of DIY4, Sam Rose will be delivering a series of workshops entitled
‘The Performance Of Intimacy’.
The workshops will focus upon what it means to experience intimacy within
one to one performance.
Participants will be asked to consider:
• What is intimacy?
• How does the form and content of one to one performance create
a sense of intimacy?
• In the one to one experience, who carries the intimacy? Where
is it located?
• What are the economies of the exchange?
The workshop will explore the transgression of boundaries between performer
and audience within one to one performance, looking at how some works
blur notions of the ‘real’ with moments of performativity.
It will also look at how one to one performance can create heightened
sensorial pleasure, or a heightened awareness of ‘self’, and
ideas through which the audience member becomes implicit in the performance
e.g. through the exchange of conversation.
The workshop will also consider the documentation of intimate performance.
For further information, and to apply for the workshop, please go to: www.thisisliveart.co.uk/prof_dev/diy/DIY4_Rose.html
Image credit: Annette Foster
Between 2006-2007, Sam Rose created a series of one to one performance encounters entitled Between One and Another.
Between One and Another developed as a series of durational one to one performance encounters and interventions based upon ideas of intimacy and exchange, and included 3 works:
Between One and Another: Melting Point (2007)
Between One and Another: A Place of Encounter (2006)
Between One And Another: Our pod (2006)
As a body of works, the research and development process uncovered how the performance of intimacy can generate moments that contain risk, chance, dialogue and conversation, including feelings of control, power, closeness, vulnerability and loss.
Each work included some of these elements as part of the exchange.
Each work as part of this series explored the boundaries between performer and audience. Encouraging participation, each audience member is an implicit part of the performance, and they must accept their role as performer, and offer him/herself as the subject of the gaze.
Image credit: Annette Foster
Between
One and Another 'A Place of Encounter'
Between One and Another is a series of one to one performance encounters based upon ideas of intimacy and exchange.
Exploring the relationship between the public and the private self, Between One and Another looks at our desire to connect and experience, to feel, to touch, and to share memories.
This body of works explores the exchange of conversation between performer and audience, discovering stories, intimate moments of interaction, tenderness, discomfort, exposure and revelation.
A Place of Encounter is a one to one manicure.
Lets sit together you and I.
Let me take your hands.
It’s time to dispense a little care and attention.
AVAILABLE FOR TOURING
A Place of Encounter is a 1-hour one to one performance flexible to a variety of sites and contexts.
Image credit: Julian Hughes
Immersion
A
durational performance
A
performer of physical courage and mesmeric force.
- Robert
Ayers, Honorary Associate of The National Review of Live Art.
Based upon childhood experiences as a Catholic girl, Immersion revisits the rituals and superstitions of a doctrine rooted in oppressive values.
A
series of fluid images and poetic performance actions using text, video
and original soundscore, combine to form a journey in which the private
body confronts history's legacy.
AVAILABLE FOR TOURING
Immersion is a durational performance of 20 minute cycles which
has the capacity to be developed for a range of different sites: theatre,
gallery, industrial empty spaces and sites of worship.
Supported by Arts Council England.
Documentation from The National Review of Live Art 2005.
Image credit: Deborah Stevenson
Surfaces
of Inscription (presence)
A
one to one durational performance
Performance, costume, video and soundscape are used to create an intimate encounter for an audience of one.
Surfaces of Inscription (presence) looks at themes of desire, gender, and interior and exterior boundaries to explore the notion that the body is framed, marked, and maintained by language.
There is no desire without restraint.
Supported by Arts Council England and Future Factory at Nottingham Trent University.
Documentation from The Sensitive Skin Season, The Bonington Gallery 2004.
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Image credit: Harjeet Kaur
Surfaces
of Inscription (absence)
A
two screen video performance
Surface of Inscription (absence) uses the presence of the mediated body to explore themes of identity, and the relationship between language and the body.
Two large projected images face each other, showing close ups of fragmented images of the body.
One screen shows the mouth, tightly closed at first. A clear thick liquid pushes its way out through the lips. Text travels downwards over the skin and over the contours of the body.
The other screen plays in reverse.
Supported by Future Factory at Nottingham Trent University.
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A site specific public performance.
Devised as part of a 6 day workshop with The Gob Squad in Berlin.
Easier
To Swallow
A
two screen video performance
Documentation
from The Core Supermarket 2000.
The Basement, Victoria Studios, Nottingham.
click on image to view Quicktime footage