JEN ROSENBLIT (US)
Residency period: September – November 2022
Jen Rosenblit is based in Berlin, and creates performances concerned with architectures, bodies, and agendas for togetherness. Rosenblit’s work leans toward the uncanny and the maintenance of care, locating ways of being together amidst (un)familiar and impossible contradictions. Her research process tracks the tangential rather than the linear, looking for meaning as it emerges between things. Rosenblit is a 2018 resident at Atelier Mondial in Basel, a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2014 recipient of the New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award, and has collaborated with artists including Simone Aughterlony, Miguel Gutierrez, A.K.Burns and Philipp Gehmacher.
Her residency project ElseWhere Excavation featured early dramaturgical research for a future performance and group conversation. During the Open Studios Fall 2022, Rosenblit shared a performative reading of an unfinished durational text entitled An (In)complete History of the World, comprising four chapters: On Boundaries, Quitting Game or the Pain Chapter, Women, and A Forgetful Choreography. Amongst and between the readings emerged physical, visual, and speculative group proposals surrounding (in)completeness and desire, attachment, repetition, forgetfulness, antiquity, erotica, and the event of an auction. By attempting a false promise of completion as we look directly at desire, an inevitable feeling of unravelling and incompletion has set in.
La Becque Open Studios Fall 2022, photos Aurélien Haslebacher