Performance for video, (14’33”) 2003
‘Hell has degrees, so does love, and I reached its lowest circle and its heights’
Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose
Ordeal by Roses was inspired by one of Eikoh Hosoe’s photographs of Yukio Mishima, who in 1970 committed Sepukku (ritual suicide by disembowelment)
Ordeal by Roses was produced for and first screened at ACT01 at the 291 Gallery, London 2003
Subsequently it has been screened at CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania, (2003); Videoex Festival, Zurich, Switzerland; Move with Movies, Vilnius, Lithuania (2004); Mix Up at The Great Eastern Hotel, London (2005); I Want To Suck Your Bones, Cinema Loblo, Lausanne, Switzerland (2007) and Homoccult & Other Esoterotica at the MIX Festival, New York City, USA (2007)
Screening copy available on DVD by request
Ordeal by Roses (excerpt)
