Guest artist ROSIE GIBBENS joins VANESSA MURRELL of DATEAGLE to discuss her art practice via 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata, 2022 published by Granta Books. This off-kilter collection of short stories brings a grotesque whimsy to fables of cultural norms, including society rituals that develop when the human species is endangered . 

ROSIE and VANESSA's discussion encompasses ritual, nothingness, meatarianism, shit and vomit . As well as ribcage tables, mocking Freud, recycling flesh, consuming oneself, anatomical Venus's, muscle suits, pointless products, human hair jumpers, an alien point of view, dried stomach lampshades, humans resembling cockroaches, eating Spongebob figurines, and to borrow Rosie's words, it's all kinda dark and kinda beautiful . 

ROSIE GIBBENS

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ARTISTS + CURATORS 

Becca Pall-Fry

Helen Chadwick

Marcel Joseph

Mike Stubbs

BOOKS + WRITERS

Albert Camus

Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' 1932

Angela Carter

Barbara Creed 'The Monstrous Feminine' 1993

Julia Kristeva

Megan Milks 'Slug and Other Stories' 2021

Perfume

Steven King 'Carrie' 1974

FILM

'Alien' 1979

'Evil Dead II' 1987

'Ex Machina' 2015

'Hellraiser' franchise

'RAW' 2017

'The Human Centipede' 2009, 2011, 2015

GALLERIES + EXHIBITIONS

GIANT 'Body Poetics' 2023

Museum of the Home

Pictorum Gallery

The Bomb Factory