Rebecca Moss’ practice involves site-responsive humorous gestures and interventions, which can take a wide variety of forms across video, performance and sculpture. Her work examines landscapes and architecture from a feminist perspective. In an ongoing video series, Moss stages interactions between her body and the Essex landscape, where she was born and grew up. In these videos, she performs to the camera with everyday household objects, and props and costumes sourced in local fancy dress shops. Moss views this series as an ongoing collaboration between her body and the landscape, interacting with non-human animals, local waterways and plants to challenge the idea of the human as dominant.
She is interested in the space of the shared joke to challenge power, and is especially inspired by absurdist and slapstick comedy. She has worked with very diverse groups of people across different projects, from workers at a concrete garden ornament factory in Somerset, to the crew of a bankrupt container ship in the Pacific Ocean. She enjoys encountering art in unexpected places. Moss strongly believes that artists should not be isolated from wider society, and that art should be a part of everyday life, accessible to everybody. In her work as an artist and educator, she emphasises the importance of democratising artistic processes so that all voices are heard.