Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony: Everything Fits in the Room (2017). Photo by Chiara Pagano. Courtesy the artists.
The Technical Residency is closed to the public.
CPR welcomes Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony as Winter 2025 Technical Residents, and will provide one uninterrupted week in CPR’s theater and access to a robust a/v inventory to play, experiment, and create. The residency will support their new work in development, The Dumps, a performance surrounding architectural decay and ruinophilia, or the love of ruins. During the residency Rosenblit and Aughterlony will work with various stage, light, and sound collaborators, focusing on research and prototyping construction scaffolding as the skeleton material and the site for the live performance.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jen Rosenblit makes performances based in Berlin after many years in NYC surrounding architectures, bodies, text, and ideas concerned with problems that arise inside of agendas for togetherness. Rosenblit’s works lean toward the uncanny, locating ways of being together amidst (un) familiar and impossible contradictions. The methodology supports an expanse of meaning as it emerges between things and moves toward an unwinding and a possible collapse. Desire and sexuality linger as reoccurring points of departure without demanding a singular aesthetic or representation. Rosenblit is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award, a 2023 La Becque (Vevey, CH) artist in residence, and currently teaches at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin. Rosenblit has collaborated with artists including Simone Aughterlony, Miguel Gutierrez, A.K. Burns, and Philipp Gehmacher in various capacities via performer, writer, creator, and director.
Simone Aughterlony is an independent artist based in Zurich and Berlin, working predominantly in dance, performance, and visual art contexts. They have been devising queer-spirited choreographic works over the last sixteen years, engaging with alternative forms of kinship inside their process, new constellations emerge as possibilities for reconfiguring a culture of togetherness that fosters both familiar and unknown quantities. Their works playfully compose with representation and its saturation, seeping into and embracing the phenomenology of mis-recognition and the absurd. Aughterlony approaches art making as a practice where they navigate the contradiction between the domination of desire alongside the agency of all elements. They regularly teach at academic institutions such as ZHdK - Zurich University of the Arts, Manufacture in Lausanne, and DAS Art Amsterdam, amongst others, as well as devising and facilitating laboratory formats and frames for sharing and producing knowledge. In 2020 together with Marc Streit they founded Imbricated Real, an independent structure for contemporary art practice.