an evening of dissatisfaction with free gifts

Sorry for a bit of a cut-and-paste job. I really would advise you to get down to this if at all possible - it should be a fascinating evening.

Tonight (Thursday 14 July) at Islington Mill artist Rosanne Robertson - one of the people who made Manchester Art Crawl happen this year - presents An Evening of Dissatisfaction with Free Gifts.

An Evening of Dissatisfaction with Free Gifts is described as 'a night of live art, installation and environment ... exploring consumer control and transparency of character and the intentions of both in relation to traditional forms of authority and currency.'

Rosanne says the work - part of Islington Mill's Say Something series - is her most personal to date. It all kicks off at 18:00 (6pm).

You can find more detail on the work here and here.

Rosanne's website is here and her twitter is here.

Directions to Islington Mill here.

Some about Rosanne

Rosanne is an artist based in Manchester, having graduated with a degree in fine art at Manchester School of Art in 2009. Her work jumps between the social and the personal and often dips into the past and present of both. Rosanne often highlights the position of the artist in relation to her work.

“A lot of time is spent trying to strip back the layers and levels of masturbatory thought, ‘intellectualisation’ and barriers that are created when trying to make art thought to be unique to my identity as an artist- in order to create an open and experimental platform where anything can happen.”

This involves glimpses into and questions about control, abandon, identity, communication and truth often by laying the artistic process bare via outputs such as performance, environment, installation, moving image, still image and text.