Series: I hate White: "Brothers", 2010

Cuerpo a cuerpo, festival de performance, september 2010. Series: “I hate white”, 2010 “Brothers” 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.

Secrets and puppets, 2010

Presented at Epipiderm 8, 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.

Glutony, 2009

The piece was presented at The X Havana Biennial, Proyecto Circo

Lick-ing myself, 2009

Presented at the X Havanna Biennial, Proyecto Colateral Circo, 2009

This video performance, five minutes long, shows the artist in a room naked licking herself. While the artist immitaed animals behaviour, the piece talks about being more in touch with nature in the world of health and also about each person responsability about their own health. She debates the complexity of health issues from a wide spectrum that includes the social, the cultural, the phisical and the mental.

Investors Corner, 2008

This piece makes a reference to the world of art and its relationship with consummerism, fetichism and the cult to celebrity. In the piece the artist has asked more than twenty artist to donate their hair for a performance in which rosa sells the hair in neat transparent boxes.

Vanishing ink, 2008

The piece Vanishing Ink talks about the loss of the past that inevitably occurs during the process of inmigration. During the piece the artist writes a letter to her grandmother Maria, as she were her grandfather,*she writes the letter she thinks he would have written if he would have written one) who abandon the Canary Islands in 1947 in a small boat toward the Caribbean and never wrote to his family again. The text of this letter is inspired by the testimonials of the senegalese inmigrants that today arrive by thousands to the islands also in small boats called pateras. The letter is written in invisble ink that it reveals itself through a process of heating' simbolizing the effort needed to get to know inmigrants past. The letter reads Dear Maria: Sorry I have not written you before, but the trip was so horrible..many of us died in the boat and we threw tem out for fear of infections, it took us three months, much longer that we have thought so we run out of food and water very early. On arrival we were very sick and others died in the hospital. When I was well enough to leave I had spent all our savings. Now I have a job, that barely covers my needs. I will not be able to send you and the children money, although I know how much you must need it. That is why I could never send you this letter. Julian Performance for the International Festival of Performance about Migration in Bern, 2008

Encounters with an allien girl, 1, 2008

This is an expert from the piece in which the artist rosa mesa makes a parody of the tedious administrative processes that inmigrants need to follows. This piece, number 1 of a series is inspired by the information provided by the webs to future inmigrants to Switzerland, where the artist was doing a art residency at the time. The piece highlights the high economicals standars request to the candidates and the right win racist comments about people of colours.

Performance for the International Festival of Performance about Migration in Bern, Swityerland, 2008