Artwork description / Biography
Reverie of the Puppets:
In this video the viewer is taken to a surreal landscape of great beauty; a land of trees that subtly shifts into more hallucinogenic terrain… At the end, the dreamers dream, and the sleepers sleep.
Kathy Rose’s work has evolved from her early drawn animated films of the 1970’s, through her unique, pioneering performance work combining dance with film in the 1980-90’s, to her current surreal performance video spectacles and videos, with influence from symbolist art and the Japanese Noh theater. Kathy Rose has toured extensively in live performance throughout the United States and Europe, giving performances at the Museum of Modern Art, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Gulbenkian Foundation, etc.
Rose recently premiered a new piece “Opera of the Interior” at ANIMATOR 2015 in Poland.
Her videos have shown in numerous festivals such as Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL, Fashion Film Festival Milano, etc. Her video “Cubistimenco” showed in the Hiroshima Animation Festival in the program Best in the World. “The Unpainted Woman” showing in Rome, Italy in It’s Liquid Experimental Video and Performance Art Festival at the BAU International Academy.
Recent one-woman shows also include the Pompidou Center for “A Shaded View of FashionFilmFestival”, EPOSFilm Art Festival at theTel Aviv Museum
