Rosa-Johan Uddoh: NATIVITY
Saturday 9th July
Performance times: 1:30pm and 4pm (20 minute running time)
Workplace | 50 Mortimer Street, W1W 7RP
(limited audience, RSVP is required)
We are pleased to take part in the 2022 edition of Performance Exchange with a new work by London-based artist, Rosa-Johan Uddoh. NATIVITY is a short, epic tale of Black performance in Europe as told by three kings who've seen it all...
Rosa-Johan Uddoh (b.1993, Croydon) is an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love. She is inspired by Black feminist practice and writing.Through performance, writing and multi-media installation, she explores places, objects and celebrities in British popular culture, and their effects on self-formation. Collaboration is key to Rosa's work, often working together with children, activists and other artists to explore themes that impact our communities and share knowledge.
Rosa is a lecturer in Performance at Central Saint Martins. She has been shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2022 and was a finalist for Arts Foundation Futures Awards in 2021. Rosa was the Liverpool Biennial and John Moores University Fellow 2018-2019 and was the Stuart Hall Library Resident for 2020. She was a Sarabande: Lee Alexander McQueen Scholar.
Rosa’s solo presentations include: Practice Makes Perfect, Focal Point Gallery, touring to Bluecoat (Southend-on-sea and Liverpool 2021), ”She is still alive!”, Destiny’s (Oslo, 2020), Studies for Impartiality, Jupiter Woods and Sphinx at the Crystal Palace, Black Tower Projects (both London, 2019). Uddoh has performed internationally in public institutions including Bergen Kunsthall, South London Gallery, Nottingham Contemporary, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh. Group shows include: Brand New Heavies, Pioneer Works (New York, 2021), Learning by Doing, 68 Institute (Copenhagen, 2019), New Contemporaries (London & Liverpool 2018) and Black Blossoms, The Royal Standard (Liverpool, 2017). Recently she has screened work at East London Cable’s TV Dinners E03 and at Tate Modern. Rosa’s first book Practice Makes Perfect, co-published with Bookworks and Focal Point Gallery will be published in July 2022.
