Rosalie Schweiker works across a wide range of media, including organising, print, education and social practice. If you are encountering the work, it’s likely that you’re not looking at it, but sitting on it, eating it, using it. Together with friends and colleagues Rosalie turned a gallery into a bra shop for DD+ sizes, co-organised a migrant-led activation day against the hostile environment, and tested participatory budgeting processes with a new housing development. She embraces the complexity of this way of working, pushing to challenge happy one-liner narratives and linear outcomes. This work needs conflict and compromise, it thrives on interdependence and solidarity.
In short, Rosalie is a mince, not a sausage artist. Every year she comes up with terms & conditions to help navigate the wrongness of the art worlds - this year's t&c is NO and Sophie Chapman kindly tattooed it on her elbow. It's been difficult for her to enforce it, but there are still a few months left. Les Reines Prochaines said: 'Thinking alone is criminal' and so Rosalie is going to share this (Artangel's) Thinking Time with all the amazing people around her, from Rabbits Road Press to Independendents United, AND publishing, Keep It Complex and Migrants In Culture. The artist is also a big fan of Company Drinks, Europa design studio, Idle Women, Joon Lynn Goh, Arawelo Eats, Sahra Hersi, Rose Nordin, Eva Weinmayr, Glengall Wharf Community Garden, Margherita Huntley, Mirjam Bayerdoerfer, Jean Joseph, Rachel Littlewood, Lisa Rahman, Sadie St.Hilaire, Kerri Jefferis, Amy Pennington, Tracky Crombie, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Sofia Niazi, Heiba Lamara, Sophie Mallett, Sarah Jury, Emma Edmondson, Aleesha Nandhra and all the other people she can't name because of the word count. She thanks Sophie Le Roux for taking the distant digital body shots.