Melusina, Performance by Itziar Bilbao Urrutia 2017

“Melusina” Performance by Itziar Bilbao Urrutia
Friday 13th October at 9pm and Saturday 14th October at 9pm at Can Monroig

Itziar Bilbao Urrutia, recently arrived from coordinating Revolutionary Recreational Repugnantand, a conference and workshop in BilbaoArte on the topic “abject femininity“, will be doing a residency at Can Monroig where she will present her performance “Melusina”.

Itziar He lives in London, where he has been working as a freelance artist since 2002. His preferred media are performance, video and photography. Melusina It is an evolution towards the feminine symbol and mythology and focuses on the acts perpetrated by a feminine power stripped of the values attributed to women: home, family, binary genders, certainties that define women's relationships with culture. Embodying a Melusina which quotes texts from Andrea Dworkin To examine the disempowerment of women raised to decorative objects, Itziar will reverse gender roles.

The medium chosen to explore these relationships in his performance is the shibari or the Japanese art of tying with ropes, which convert the object tied by the artist, in this case, the man, into a toy or decorative element. Finally, the Six Pillars of Power, listed by Andrea Dworkin in her work Pornography, will be sung like an oracle of the Pythia, the other snake-woman of classical tradition, between the walls of Can Monroig.

More information about the artist and her residency at Can Monroig at “Revolutionary Recreational Disgusting, a residency on the edge of art…”

Fragment of the performance that Itziar Bilbao offered in Can Monroig in October 2017

Performance “Melusina”
Dates: Friday, October 13 at 9 p.m. and Saturday, October 14 at 9 p.m.
Location. Can Monroig, Calle Can Valella nº 22, Inca, Mallorca

Adults only
Reservations to participate in the workshop  canmonroig@gmail.com
Consultation telephones: 649186494 (Robert) and 609167768 (Noëlle)

Can Monroig It is a private and independent space managed by Robert López Hinton and Marie-Noëlle Ginard Féron, dedicated to architecture, restoration of old houses and interior design, which hosts cultural events such as dance, teatro, art or music through the Can Monroig cultural association.