audiovisual documentation fonds
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Fons #07: Dora García
Fons #07: Dora García
MACBA’s Audiovisual Documentation Fonds features a series of interviews with artists represented in the MACBA Collection.
Dora García invites viewers to participate in her work by taking sides on questions that are often ethically controversial. Through a variety of media and a wide range of documentation, she asks them to commit themselves to a detailed examination of complex issues. With a research-based practice, she encourages viewers to take a personal stand on the history of some anti-institutional movements, such as anti-psychiatry, the figure of the artist as an outsider, or the cultural mechanisms for the production of meaning.
The Kingdom by Dora García is an extended performance that was held at MACBA from 20 February to 30 March 2003. Conceived as an unconventional performance, it lasted a month and a half and was presented to the public as a novel available in the Atrium of the Museum: a novel containing a performance agenda and a prophecy [her term] of the events due to take place in the Museum for the duration of the performance.
The Kingdom by Dora García is an extended performance that was held at MACBA from 20 February to 30 March 2003. Conceived as an unconventional performance, it lasted a month and a half and was presented to the public as a novel available in the Atrium of the Museum: a novel containing a performance agenda and a prophecy [her term] of the events due to take place in the Museum for the duration of the performance.
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Dora García takes as her starting point one of the most cryptic works in world literature, Finnegans Wake. Published in 1939, James Joyce’s last novel is one of the best literary representations of the unconscious with a circular text that imposes a never-definitive hermeneutics. Her video The Joycean Society brings out the highest virtues of conversational practice, literary interpretation and the production of meaning.
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In 2001, Dora García began her long series Frases d’or (Golden Sentences) using letters inscribed with gold leaf on walls or printed on T-shirts. While the golden colour gives the phrases a certain material preciousness, the themes are always linked to common sense. Although some are taken from well-known figures such as Albert Einstein, most have been proposed by the artist.
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