Oliver Walker (Liverpool, 1980) uses live art ('situations'), interventions and other mediums such as video, to investigate social and political issues.

After studying Fine Art in Bristol, Walker took advantage of his apparent likeness to Jesus to walk on water in the town's docks. While on exchange in Berlin in 2003, he produced the performance project 'Language School', where 10 one-to-one language classes took place side by side, changing as ten new teachers and students took over every hour. In late 2004 Walker moved to Barcelona, where he made the performance La Subasta ('The Auction'), in a small neighbourhood undergoing heavy gentrification. Local children, with international monopoly money, bid for chocolate plans of apartments in the area. An animated parody ensued. Since 2006 Walker has been living in Berlin, and studying on the Art in Context course at Berlin's University of the Arts. He continues his studio practice at the Josetti Höffe, with a studio provided by culturia (www.culturia.de).

Contact: omjwalker@yahoo.co.uk