Johanna Monk

Residues: Portrait of the Artist and Her Trophy Wife

WORM / Boomgaardsstraat 71 Rotterdam / Tue 6 October 2026 / 16:00 (opening) 19:45 (our video)

Video documentation of a performance
by Vanita & Johanna Monk (2017).
Performance: 24 min. Video: 15 min.
Music: Friso van Wijck

A mystic artist and her charming wife
explore art production and relationship
power dynamics through a ritual of
repetitive gestures, until danger
crashes the ambient flow and leaves
a restless, queerly festive crowd awkwardly struggling with open-ended silence.

This is part of a bigger event. There will be other performance videos, by Larysa Bauge, Nina Boas, Beatrice Didier, Kirsten Heshusius, Jolanda Jansen, Anne Kolbe, Ritau van Koudewater, James Notin, sabine oosterlynck, Moe Satt, ieke Trinks, Nina Wijnmaalen.

Tickets and more info:
https://worm.org/production/residues-performance-on-screen/

The event opens at 16:00.
Our video will be screened halfway through the 3rd of 3 program blocks, around 19:45.

The program is divided into 3 blocks with an hour dinner break.
Block 1: 16:00. Block 2: 17:25.
Dinner break 18:15. Block 3: 19.15. End 21:00.

About the event: Artists share video registrations of performances made for live audiences. Offered in a cinema setting, full attention is turned to these residues. We will screen excerpts and edits from submitted videos and discuss the images, traces and choices of documentation together with art historian Barbara Krulik and the artists.

Vanita & Johanna Monk made and performed art, music and literature together for 35 years until Vanita’s death in 2024. Johanna now continues this collaboration beyond the boundary of life, her practice existing on a continuum from past to future, between estate curation and new works rooted in a personal mythology of love, trauma, healing, violence, transformation, lust, enlightenment and death.