Thrilled to welcome seminal performance artist Sheree Rose back to LAST Projects. Its the second time Rose has performed at LAST and she will debut a new collaborative work: Rose's Wake Sheree Rose + Martin O'Brien in a 6 hour durational performance from 2 to 8pm In lieu of holding a funeral sometime down the line, Sheree Rose has decided to celebrate her death while she can still enjoy the service. Free admission "I do not want a funeral when I’m gone. I hope my late partner Bob was right when he said it is fun to be dead . Please join me Martin O'Brien, and others at my preemptive wake on Saturday November 12th from 2-8pm at LAST Projects to pay your last (dis) respects. " Sheree Rose has been thrilling, shocking, and exciting audiences around the world, beginning with her collaborative photography ad performances with Bob Flanagan in 1981. Their groundbreaking show, “Visiting Hours” opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 1994, and travelled to the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. She collaborated with Mike Kelley on the video “One Hundred Reasons”, as well as music videos with Nine Inch Nails (Happiness in Slavery), Danzig (It’s Coming Down) and Godflesh (Crush My Soul). She co-produced the Sundance award winning documentary, Sick. Since 2011, she has collaborated with British performance artist, Martin O’Brien, in performances in England, New York and Los Angeles, including “Dust to Dust” at One Institute, “The Viewing” at DaDa Fest in Liverpool, England, and “The Ascension” at Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles. “Rated RX: Sheree Rose With and After Bob Flanagan”, edited by Yetta Howard, was published in 2020 by Ohio State University Press. In 2021, she participated, via video, in Martin O’Brien’s 9 day performance piece at the ICA in London’s “The Last Breathe Society”. Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durations in order to examine what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and to live longer than expected. He has shown work throughout the UK, Europe, USA, and Canada. His most recent works were at Tate Britain in 2020, and the ICA (London) in 2021. He is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. He will be artist-writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery throughout 2023. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien’ was published by Live Art Development Agency. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art at Queen Mary University London.