May 22 2023 47 mins 1
Guest artist ROSIE GIBBENS joins VANESSA MURRELL of DATEAGLE to discuss her art practice via 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata, 2022 published by Granta Books. This off-kilter collection of short stories brings a grotesque whimsy to fables of cultural norms, including society rituals that develop when the human species is endangered .
ROSIE and VANESSA's discussion encompasses ritual, nothingness, meatarianism, shit and vomit . As well as ribcage tables, mocking Freud, recycling flesh, consuming oneself, anatomical Venus's, muscle suits, pointless products, human hair jumpers, an alien point of view, dried stomach lampshades, humans resembling cockroaches, eating Spongebob figurines, and to borrow Rosie's words, it's all kinda dark and kinda beautiful .
ROSIE GIBBENS
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ARTISTS + CURATORS
Becca Pall-Fry
Helen Chadwick
Marcel Joseph
Mike Stubbs
BOOKS + WRITERS
Albert Camus
Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' 1932
Angela Carter
Barbara Creed 'The Monstrous Feminine' 1993
Julia Kristeva
Megan Milks 'Slug and Other Stories' 2021
Perfume
Steven King 'Carrie' 1974
FILM
'Alien' 1979
'Evil Dead II' 1987
'Ex Machina' 2015
'Hellraiser' franchise
'RAW' 2017
'The Human Centipede' 2009, 2011, 2015
GALLERIES + EXHIBITIONS
GIANT 'Body Poetics' 2023
Museum of the Home
Pictorum Gallery
The Bomb Factory
