Rosana Cade
About Rosana Cade
Rosana (they/them) is a Glasgow based artist who mainly works in live performance.
Whilst the form of their work varies and emerges in response to the specific context or inquiry they are engaging with, it is rooted in queer feminist discourse and straddles performance, live art, and activism. Almost all of their work is collaborative, and takes place in different contexts including theatres, galleries, urban public spaces, nightclubs and cabaret settings.
They are a co-founder of the radical performance collective //BUZZCUT//, were part of the Spill National Platform and Showcase in 2013, a National Theatre of Scotland and Arches "Auteur" in 2014, received a Culture2014 commission to travel to India to make a new work, were an artsadmin artist bursary recipient 2014/15, and artist in residence at the Marlborough Theatre in 2015.
For the past eight years Rosana has been touring regularly and their work has been shown extensively in the UK with a range of organisations across the country including the National Theatre in London, at Summerhall as part of the Made in Scotland Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014 and MIS and British Council Showcase 2019, Contact Theatre - Manchester, the Arches in Glasgow, Battersea Arts Centre, Fierce Festival. In the past four years Rosana has also been touring internationally regularly, mainly across Europe to venues such as Gessnerrallee in Zurch, Teatro Maria Matos in Lisbon, Frascati in Amsterdam, Kampnagel in Hamburg, Tanzquartier in Vienna and Gorki in Berlin.
Previous work includes: Walking: Holding, Double Pussy Clit Fuck, MOOT MOOT, and Cock and Bull.