ITZIAR OKARIZ (EDITION II)
Climbing Buildings
Look around you and you may well see the performance in which a woman climbs a building on the Neude square, the busy Festival Square. The woman is dressed in everyday clothes - no climbers outfit - and her climbing ropes and other equipment are nearly invisible.
Itziar Okariz uses media and performance to question our conditioned behaviour in public spaces. Inspired by the feminist art of the 1970s, she investigates the relationship between art and public space. 'Climbing Buildings' could be seen as an extreme example of the Situationists’ concept of creative walking in the urban space.
Look around you and you may well see the performance in which a woman climbs a building on the Neude square, the busy Festival Square. The woman is dressed in everyday clothes - no climbers outfit - and her climbing ropes and other equipment are nearly invisible.
Itziar Okariz uses media and performance to question our conditioned behaviour in public spaces. Inspired by the feminist art of the 1970s, she investigates the relationship between art and public space. 'Climbing Buildings' could be seen as an extreme example of the Situationists’ concept of creative walking in the urban space.
May 25 + May 26, 2007, Neude, Utrecht
'Climbing Buildings', Itziar Okariz, May 2007, Neude, Utrecht
