Rosie Isaac

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  • Intestine in my eye

    2018

    Performance at Quest on William as part of Next Wave Festival 2018
    For copy of the text click here

    Photos by Sarah Walker
    Video documentation by James Wright
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  • BACK WARD PLAY

    2017
    Exhibition at Gertrude Glasshouse

    List of works
    ORAL PLAY, hand grease and breath on mirror
    BACK WARD PLAY, two dental/therapeutic chairs
    Keeping fast hold of your round hole, dentist's mirror, aluminum
    She had no responsibility except to her own inordinate cravings, hand mirrored glass, timber
    Spell it out or out its spell, audio of countdown from ten to one, duration 07:02
    MORAL WARD, audio of an apple being eaten, duration 02:40

    For show text click here

    Photos by Christian Capurro and Adelle Mills
    ORAL PLAY activated by Georgina Criddle, Nell Pearson and Anador Walsh
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  • AGILE LIE

    (2017)
    AGILE LIE, fragile tape
    FRAGILE GAG, hand mirrored beer bottles, nylon string, nails
    Photos by Christo Crocker and Christian Capurro
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  • Here repetition of lot a be will there

    (2017)
    Reading of the script Here repetition of lot a be will there on and against the sculptural work AGILE LIE and FRAGILE GAG

    For a copy of the text click here

    Photos by Lauren Dunn
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  • There will be a lot of repetition here

    (2017) Performed in the Good Shepherd Chapel, Abbotsford Convent part of Polyphonic Social curated by Liquid Architecture.

    Reading of a script written by the artist. Beginning in the choir stalls the performance ends with artist and audience reclining on the floor of the church.

    Photos by Keelan O'Hehir
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  • Slow roasted lamb, wet blanket

    (2016) Part of Gertrude Studios 2016
    Felted raw wool on glass, eucalyptus leaves, moth, twigs, grass, shit

    Figure I & II (2016)
    Graphite wall drawing
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  • Through flooding: A silent choral reading

    (2016) Part of Through Love: Five Feminist Perspectives, Next Wave 2016. Organised by Brainlina.

    A silent reading performed by The Audience. Certainty performed by Saskia Doherty.
    Love I & Love II performed by Ben Hjorth and Briony Galligan. Video by Jacqui Shelton.
    Scripts printed by Negative Press.

    For a copy of the script click here. For notes on the first iteration of the performance click here. To view the brainlina website click here.
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  • No, I couldn’t agree with you more.

    (2015) Microphones, microphone stands, amplifiers, speakers, shelves, script, performance transcript.

    Exhibition with Briony Galligan Well this isn't a police station. Look this is not a police station!

    Work by Briony Galligan Its not actually like they are floating, they're in quite specific positions
    Curtain, radio, sound of ABC news reader breathing.
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  • Well this isn’t a police station. Look this is not a police station!

    (2015) Performed by Abbe Holmes and Chess Julia Allan In No, I couldn't agree with you more with Briony Galligan

    Scripted announcements made at ten minute intervals by two female voice over artists and amplified into the gallery stairwell. For a transcript of the performance click here. To hear an excerpt of the script recorded by Abbe Holmes click here.
    Photos by Christian Capurro
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  • Speaking in the abstract

    (2014) Scripted performance and set
    Timber, plaster, paint, screen printed script, screen board

    Performed by Nell Pearson, Gabriel Curtin, Nick Modrzewski

    To view the script click here.
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  • Diagram of dialogue

    (2014) Boxboard, notepad, blue pen, consecutive interpreter's notes on Speaking in the abstract Notes by Georgina Begg
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  • Pardon me but a crisis

    (2014) Performance with Phoebe Amis. Text by Phoebe Amis, Jack Saunders, Isabelle Sully, Rosie Isaac. Part of ?! Performance Festival, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow.
    Photos by Jen Martin.
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  • By hook or by crook (crooked)

    (2014) HD video, tilted plinth, sound. Duration: 1:32 Part of Pardon me, but our position has been struck by lightning.
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  • A woman, a man, a beast and a god.

    (2013) 3 channel video with freestanding wall. Duration 06:53
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