Artist:Rowdy SS
Pronouns: He/They
Rowdy SS is a London born and based, multidisciplinary artist. Often working at the intersection/s of sound/music, dance/movement and live art performance alongside making video. International performances and works have explored love, energy, emotions, feelings, explored identity and the societal constructs surrounding, and mined life to share his vision of said life.
BIOGRAPHY
Working with instigation and/or response, creating immersive experience, innovative approaches to sound, uses of video mediums, technology, the body, dance and movement as tools for conceptual art performance, to investigate, distort, abstract, and/or subvert for ‘other space’, environments, dream/meditative states, liminality, the potentials for escapism and/or reflection, resistance, heavy space, the navigation, listening, negotiation, how a space/s can sound and feel, how we feel in these/those spaces, the why, shifting physical awarenesses, internal movements, the journeys, the processes.
Rowdy was previously a member of Atari Teenage Riot, a Berlin-based noise band and works internationally with artists and makers legendary dub creator Lee Scratch Perry, Torkwase Dyson, Ron Arad, Dunedin Consort, ran successful London club nights ‘SOAP’ + ‘Sonic’ and plays international DJ sets.
Recent international live performances include TATE Modern, Pace Gallery, London, Alserkel Avenue, Dubai, Nottingham Contemporary, The ICA, London (2020), Turner Contemporary, Glastonbury, The Yard Theatre, Transmediale, Berlin, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, The RA, 180 The Strand, Block Universe Performance Art Festival, The Southbank Centre (2018), recent collaborative projects include ‘Liquid a Place’ with Torkwase Dyson (2021) and live sound work with Rebecca Bellantoni (Run Come Water, ) and successful residencies at Chisenhale Dance Space, Kottenspetionen Dans, Atalante and Konstall C in Sweden.
Rowdy is a Somerset House Studios Resident Artist, leads masterclasses and workshops for Block Universe, UAL, The Roundhouse, Slade School of Fine Art, Goldsmiths University and The Yard Theatre.
Image Credit: Guillaume Valli
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Image Description: Photograph: A large orange cube in front of a black background with a figure standing, leaning on the left side of the cube. The cube is a bit taller than the person. They are a Black person dressed in orange, leaning their shoulder on the cube with their body facing us, tilting backwards. Their hand is touching the cube.