ECU x Mount Pleasant: Craftsmanship
Students and alumni from Emily Carr share performances and experiments created with visiting artist Itziar Okariz.
Participating students and recent alumni from Emily Carr University of Art + Design will share insights developed in collaboration with Western Front visiting artist Itziar Okariz through Craftsmanship, a pair of workshops investigating performance both in its specificity and at the limits that define it.
Drawing from Okariz’s performance Dream Diary, which uses dreams as a score, the workshops combined practical exercises that explored the body as a sign and language in its positional and performative dimensions, alongside new proposals developed by the participants. The public presentation will reveal experiments, fragments, and performative sketches that offer a glimpse into the ideas and processes emerging from the workshops.
About the Artist
Itziar Okariz is an artist based between Bilbao and New York whose work centres on action and performance, exploring how language and signs define us. Through vocal performances, spontaneous actions, videos, installations, and text pieces, she investigates the intersections of architecture, territory, the body, ritual, sexuality, and semiotics. Her practice is often associated with feminist approaches, punk aesthetics, and queer critiques of normative gender constructs.
Accessibility
The Grand Luxe Hall is located on the second floor of Western Front, which is accessed by a flight of 26 stairs. ASL interpretation is available upon request. Please contact us at info@westernfront.ca or +1 (604) 876 9343 to arrange. Further details about accessibility at Western Front can be found here.
Acknowledgements
Presented in partnership with Libby Leshgold Gallery and Western Front.
100 Years in the Making | This event is produced in support of ECU 100, Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s centennial anniversary.