PRITZA إقتحام
2025-11-27
Beit Barakat
barricade-tape-screen-printing-machine in red/white, live for the first time at PRITZA 2025.
This printing performance came to life with the kind support of:
Event Curators: Sigal Dahan, Uri Shafir, Tal Kronkop
Printing station modeling by Yotam Cohen
Station production was executed with assistance of Max Digital Art Lab, Holon
Photography by Anat Handelsman
Beit Barakat Cultural Center
Photography by Anat Handelsman
Caught in the wind, whirling and dancing frantically. The dance goes on and on, at street corners, outside construction sites, in parking lots and playgrounds - red and white swirl, chasing each other, choreographed by a hidden puppeteer.
They're formally called barricade tapes, and they appeared in California in the 1960s - and since took over the world. These striped synthetic tapes carry with them meaning: DANGER! DO NOT PASS! CAUTION! ATTENTION! They speak loud and clear to everyone, everywhere, transcending over language and culture.
I am fascinated with this tape: It is so recklessly used, and only seldom collected. Yet it holds a strange kind of beauty. It is a form of modern-day ornament, decorating our streets in its colors and movement.
Hand-pulled screen-printing has a unique appeal to it that only gets stronger as times get more digital…
