HILL, Rose

After the Re-Membering
Saturday October 21 8 pm
XPACE

First, I began with urinals filled with red wine and fifty loaves of bread torn to pieces. I pieced together the original loaves and once each was finished I spit wine into the cracks. Then, I began with bread dough full of lamb meat and human hair. I separated the meat and hair from the dough and placed each in separate piles while red wine dripped from the ceiling onto my back. I wrapped the dough across my chest and lay under the wine. Finally, I began with a horse piñata filled with raw meat and red wine. I dismembered it and attached the pieces to my body. I took the horse to a corral in the forest and re-membered it. This piece is about what happens next.

Rose Hill  is a Seattle-based performance artist who creates site-specific, time-based pieces for festivals, galleries and alternative performance spaces. Her work addresses the body in relationship, illness and mortality. She has performed in Boston, California, and Seattle, as well as internationally in New Zealand, Poland, Chile, the National Review of Live Art (Scotland), and most recently at Springtides Festival (Germany).

In Memoriam: Rose Marie Hill