THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE (PREMIERE)
Itziar Barrio

Main exhibition at PARTICIPANT INC
March 6 – April 17, 2022
253 E Houston St, ground floor
Wednesday–Sunday, noon–7pm

With an archival exhibition and web project on participantafterdark.art 
Curated by Elizaveta Alexandrovna Shneyderman 

And Itziar Barrio at HOME 
As part of an organizational collaboration with PARTICIPANT INC
291 Grand Street NYC
March 6-31, 2022 

PARTICIPANT INC presents the concluding iteration of a twelve-year, multi-site project, Itziar Barrio, THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE (PREMIERE). THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE (TPO) merges different media to generate a movie in real time, participating in a larger debate about labor conditions and subjectivity. As a whole, the project seeks to query the limits of film, performance, sculpture, and installation by deploying dissent as a tool to rewrite dominant narratives and open future horizons. Throughout the history of TPO, which has unfolded in Bilbao, New York City, Bogotá, and Rome, performers worked with directors to develop their characters. In each location, over time, this process was witnessed by audiences and recorded, to be edited later. As noted by art critic Ángela Molina, Barrio seeks to produce “an art of feeling, of bonds and symptoms that operate within a social order marked by class division and the imperative of capital.”