Performance artist and widow of Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose discusses her extraordinary body of work, her collaborative performances, and life after Bob with fellow performance artist and celebrated author, Fiona McGregor.

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Sheree Rose is an American photographer and performance artist. She is best known for her collaborative work with performance artist Bob Flanagan, and her photography documenting a wide range of Los Angeles subcultures, especially in relation to BDSM and body modification.

Fiona McGregor is a Sydney author and performance artist. She writes novels, essays, articles, and reviews. Since 1993, she has published 7 books, most recently the essay collection Buried not Dead. 

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Presented in conjunction with 'The Patient' at UNSW Galleries.

'The Patient' explores the ways in which artists engage with powerful human experiences in the fields of health, biological science and medicine, contributing to discourse on the representation of illness, disease, care, individual agency and what it is to be human. Artists present new experimental works and ongoing projects across a range of media, connecting to us as viewers (and participants) in ways that are variously difficult, fearless, funny and sometimes unlovely.
 

Image: Sheree Rose, Bob Flanagan, Wall of Pain 1993/2016. Documentary photographs, from Visiting Hours, 1993-1995. Courtesy of Sheree Rose and the One Archives, Los Angeles. Installation view, 'The Patient' UNSW Galleries 2016. Photo: Silversalt Photography