Daily Deluxe, 2011

Neukoelln 48 Stunden, Berlin

As part of the collective daily services(Maria Linares&rosa mesa) have presented during the Neukoelln 48 Stunden Festival in Berlin, the piece dalily deluxe, a public intervention where people could enjoy a thai massage, a face massage or some hair styling, all for free sitting in our comfortable mobile daily station. Over 100 people enjoy this weekend the project.

www.dailyservices.com

www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de

Series: I hate white: "Stained" 2011

This is the third and last performance from the series I hate white, a trilogie dealing with nationalism, racism and violence. This piece was presented at Kurt Kurt Forever in Sant Denis.

The piece deals with the idea of Tacheé(Stained, Manchados), the idea of being somehow a visible minority and with the destruction of the idols, the symbols and those icons that we though once untachable.

Series: I hate white: "...toll for you" 2010

"...toll for you", 2010
Accion MAD, Madrid

The piece is an oda to the ecosystem form by humanity where each men is part of a sensitive and fragile structure. The tittle comes from a poem of John Donne. This poem was also use in the film For whom the bells toll, based on the novel from Heminway about spanish civil war.
Taking this sentence as a metaphor I explore concepts as nationalism, patritism, humanity and personal responsability and involment in todays political panorama.

Fotos: Thomas P. Proffe

Series: I hate White: "Brothers", 2010

Fotos Diego Calvi.

Presented at the festival Cuerpo a Cuerpo, Spain

This piece is part of the series “I hate white”, where the artist explores ideas about demagoguery and violence. The concept of white has simbolized purity, virginity, cleanness versus black charge with negative connotations and red associated with the violence or the impure.
In the piece Brothers, the artist plays in one hand with the colour and in the other with the concept of brotherhood, associated with nationalism. In any case the piece plays around preconceived ideas and attitudes.

More about this performance at:
wwwrosamesaperformance.blogspot.com

Secrets and Puppets, 2010

Presented at Epipiderm, encontres a volta de performance, Lisbon


This piece from the artist rosa mesa is a performance that deals with the world of communication in artistic spaces but it extents to the general world of today media oriented and globalized culture.
Politics, politics of art, responsability, ownership, desire, control and communication are some of the themes that work in this piece that is both an interactive performance as well as a drawing piece.
It is an interactive piece in which the audience is invited to participate in the creative process telling their secrets or desires to the artist.The artist becomes a puppet that will respond to the audience interaction.

More about this performance at:
wwwrosamesaperformance.blogspot.com
also check
www.rosamesasecretos.blogspot.com
for info about the paralel project
GIVE ME YOUR SECRET

Ich habe noch einen Koffer in Berlin, 2010

Heimatmuseum Neukoelln, 48 Stunden Neukoelln.
Juny 25, 2010

“The project creates an image of the city of Berlin through the memory of the people who has lived or journey through it, of the artist and of the audience. It validates collective memory as one of the ways to create meaning and reflects todays diversity in the nieghborhood where will be presented”

„Das Projekt erschafft mit Hilfe der Erinnerungen derjeniger, die in dieser Stadt gelebt oder sie besucht haben, sowie denen der Künstlerin und des Publikums ein Bild der Stadt Berlin.“

"El proyecto pretende la creación de una imagen de la ciudad a través de los ojos de la gente que ha vivido, que vive o que vivirá en la ciudad de Berlin (donde el trabajo será presentado)".


Please enter the BLOG and leave your story about Berlin.

www.rosamesaneukoelln.blogspot.com

http://blog.48-stunden-neukoelln.de/

in the right site you see my name and it will connect you to the blog.

IF THE WALLS COULD TALK, 2009

This double video piece is a metaphorical overview of two cities, La Havana and Berlin. They seems to have nothing in common but the artist explores the idea of change and transition in political and social contexts through her own experience. The first one was filmed in the way from Havana to the airport, the second one was filmes in the place where the Berlin Wall use to stand.

IF THE WALLS COULD TALK:La Havana








IF THE WALLS COULD TALK:Berlin