ATTENZIONE / BOLOGNA
URBAN INTERVENTION
ATTENZIONE / BOLOGNA
URBAN INTERVENTION
ATTENZIONE / BOLOGNA
Full HD, 07:50 min . 2005
Public performance / urban intervention
Video documentation
Attenzione / Bologna unfolds as an urban intervention in which red-and-white caution tape is used to construct a temporary spatial condition within the public environment. Installed in the context of the Bologna Flash Art Show, the work introduces a visual language associated with control, safety, and restriction into an otherwise open and accessible space. The intervention does not establish a fixed boundary, but creates a shifting situation in which movement, access, and visibility are continuously negotiated. Positioned in a historically charged urban setting, the work engages directly with the spatial and symbolic structures that define public space.
As the performance develops, the intervention provokes a direct institutional response. The presence of authority interrupts the action, exposing the limits imposed on the use of public space and the conditions under which artistic gestures are tolerated. The work thus moves beyond a purely spatial intervention, becoming a site of confrontation between artistic agency and regulatory power. This moment marks an early articulation of a recurring tension within Entekhabi’s practice, where the body, the boundary, and the city intersect under conditions of control, visibility, and constraint.
PROJECT CONTEXT
The intervention was realized in the framework of the Bologna Flash Art Show in 2005, within a historically charged urban environment. Executed without formal authorization, the performance was interrupted by police intervention, revealing the regulatory limits imposed on artistic action in public space.
Camera:
Gea Politi, Max Gartezla, Kathleen Cleaver, Lauren Lavitt
Publication
“Attenzione” in Travelling City
Author: John Ramón Barbancho Rodríguez
Publisher: Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, 2015
ISBN 978–9978–77–244–7