ANIMATING TREMORS (2023)

This performance explores tension release through body and breath. The body is voluntarily shaking. The materials for this work are a body, a room and a rosemary bush. 

Shaking is a private practice Rosa uses for recovery. They perform this work publicly to explore perceptions of the uncontrolled femme-presenting body in public space. 

Animating Tremors is a two-hour durational performance. 

“It was a privilege to be among the audience for Animating Tremors and the performance has really stayed with me. 

I found it incredibly moving and affecting and the whole performance was superbly well paced and executed. It felt like it brought together manifold layers of contemporary and historic references. 

Resonances of healing, vulnerability and survival came through strongly for me.” 

Elizabeth Brown IKON Gallery Curator

Supported by Vivid Projects + Ikon Gallery Performance Art Lab.
Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

Photography by Cathy Wade