Western Front highlights Basque artist Itziar Okariz's Dream Diary and Ocean Breath, October 30
Two live performance works explore language, sound, and the body
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Itziar Okariz’s Respiración oceánica at Museo Reina Sofía in Spain, 2021. Photo by Joaquín Cortés/Román Lores, courtesy of Museo Reina Sofía
Western Front is presenting Dream Diary and Ocean Breath, an evening of live performance by the Basque artist Itziar Okariz, in the Grand Luxe Hall on October 30 at 7:30 pm. The event offers an introduction to Okariz’s practice ahead of a workshop series with students and recent alumni from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
With Dream Diary, Okariz continues her practice of recording dreams. In the month leading up to the show, she keeps a diary of recollections written immediately upon waking. During the performance, these texts are multiplied, inverted, and connected, with each reading carrying the last word into the next. Gradually, the full dream emerges.
The program concludes with Ocean Breath, a collaboration with Izar Okariz. Drawing on ujjayi breathing—a yogic technique reminiscent of ocean waves—the work amplifies breath through microphones as two performers inhale and exhale. This accumulative chorus of breaths shifts between abstraction and figuration, evoking the rhythm of the sea.
Admission is by donation. For more details, visit Western Front.
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