Monthly Archive for May, 2011

Rencontre entre Esther Ferrer et Dora Garcia à Rosascape, le 2 mai 2011.

Thursday, May 19 - 19.30h
rosascape wrote

Pendant cette rencontre Dora García a interrogé Esther Ferrer sur sa trajectoire artistique et ses positions politiques et artistiques de l’époque du franquisme à aujourd’hui. Il a aussi été question de sa position d’artiste « en exil » ou plus précisément d’artiste “déplacée” de l’Espagne vers la France dans les années 60. Esther Ferrer a évoqué ses relations personnelles avec quelques figures des avant-gardes intellectuelles dans les années 70 tel que David Cooper et la pensée Française avec Michel Foucault et Jacques Lacan. Autre aspect de cette rencontre : en tant qu’artistes représentant l’Espagne à la Biennale de Venise (en 1999 pour Esther Ferrer, en 2011, cette année donc, pour Dora Garcia) comment gérer la relation à l’Etat et à ses modes de fonctionnement institutionnels et politiques ?

Plateforme d’édition et de création contemporaine
www.rosascape.com

Conversation between Dora García and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 12 April

Wednesday, May 18 - 21.28h
www.LTTDS.org wrote

http://lttds.blogspot.com/2011/04/conversation-between-dora-garcia-and.html

Last night, a fascinating conversation between Dora García and Isidoro Valcárcel Medinatook place at ProjecteSD, Barcelona, coinciding with the opening of the exhibition Forever, which featured works by both artists as well as Joe Scanlan.

García led the dialogue which began around the concept of the over-excluded or thesuper-excluded artists in relation to Pierre Bal-Blanc’s 2009  Secession exhibition and essay ‘The Death of the Audience’ (interview with the author here). Besides talking about this long-term interest of García around ‘the marginal’, the artists also discussed the role and sense of mission attributed to artists, censorship (and self-censorship), what it means to work ethically (or the ethics of work), the definition of quality and regret.

One of the highlights was this short exchange:

– Dora García: Do you identify with the idea of an artist without work?
– Isidoro Varcárcel Medina: Is that possible?
– DG: Well, there’s a few examples in history…
– IVM: With or without a catalogue…?

 

 

The prehistory of The Inadequate: Echte Künstler haben keine Zähne

Tuesday, May 17 - 20.43h
Dora wrote

DORA GARCIA – Echte Künstler haben keine Zähne · 22.08. – 22.08.2010

Kunsthalle Bern

Das Ein-Personen-Stück Echte Künstler haben keine Zähne ist Teil des Projektes Mad Marginal der renommierten spanischen Künstlerin Dora García, in welchem sie sich mit Marginalität als einer politischen und künstlerischen Haltung auseinandersetzt. Continue reading ‘The prehistory of The Inadequate: Echte Künstler haben keine Zähne’

Arte-Dialettica

Monday, May 16 - 20.47h
Roberto Comini wrote

Hi,

As a protagonist of post-conceptual and refusal art in Italy from the end of sixties, I would to remenber to you that, in 1973, I founded “Arte-Dialettica” with Francesco Matarrese and I actively participated at the art manifestations organized by the “Ufficio per l’immaginazione preventiva”, both presents in the extraordinary idea of Inadequate. Continue reading ‘Arte-Dialettica’

The prehistory of The Inadequate: MM at Nomas Foundation, Rome

Thursday, May 12 - 19.49h
Dora wrote

Mad Marginal: antipsychiatry tradition and marginality as artistic position.A seminar by Dora Garcia with Claudia de Michelis, Cesare Pietroiusti and Nicola Valentino

22 June 2010

http://formcontent.org/other-projects/mad-marginal/

In occasion of the third appointment of the Reading Room, Nomas Foundation and FormContent present Mad Marginal: antipsychiatry tradition and marginality as artistic position, a project by Dora Garcia exploring the relation between radical politics and radical art in the decade of the 70ties and its translation into today.

Through a series of conversations, Dora Garcia researches the idea of marginality as a political position in art. She applies the tradition of antipsychiatry and specifically the “Basaglian revolution” as a prism to look at artists who have consciously chosen to remain outside the mainstream. In Rome she will discuss these topics with Claudia De Michelis, Museo Laboratorio della Mente, Cesare Pietroiusti, artist, Nicola Valentino, co-founder of the publishing house Sensibili alle foglie. Continue reading ‘The prehistory of The Inadequate: MM at Nomas Foundation, Rome’

The prehistory of The Inadequate: Mad Marginal meeting, Milan

Wednesday, May 11 - 19.58h
Dora wrote

Mad Marginal: antipsychiatry tradition and marginality as artistic position

http://www.peep-hole.org/index.php?/events/mad-marginal/

a seminar by Dora García with Stefano Graziani, Cesare Pietroiusti, Nicola Valentino 
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March 1, 2010 from 6.00 pm to 9.00 pm

Mad Marginal is a project undertaken by the artist last November, with the homonymous textpublished in Peep-Hole Sheet #03 (Mousse Publishing) dealing with the idea of marginality as a political position in art, its contradictions, and its beauty. Garcia recognized then the similarities between antipsychiatry, Antonin Artaud and Jack Smith (the underground film-maker that the artist reveres). Mad Marginal consists of a series of workshops, seminars and performances; of an archive research on historical documentation; of a curatorial exercise focusing on projects by contemporary artists; of the participation of the artist to the Faenza Contemporary Art Festival; of a publication and a short experimental film. The final presentation of the project will take place at the Fondazione Galleria Civica-Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento, with the launch and preview of the publication and the experimental film within the Trentoship and Trento.link projects.

Continue reading ‘The prehistory of The Inadequate: Mad Marginal meeting, Milan’

The prehistory of The Inadequate: “I am a judge”, Index, Stockholm

Tuesday, May 10 - 16.42h
Dora wrote

Index, Kungsbro strand 19, Stockholm, Sweden,  22 Mar 2010

Dora García: I am a judge

Press Release

 

The work of Spanish artist Dora García explore certain expressions taken from popular culture, processed in real time and through a fictionalized course of events. Fiction becomes García’s one important tool since the artist has no intention of building reconstructions of history, but rather to offer possible scenarios where conventions concerning ethics and morals are being challenged. The walltext I am a judge (1997) describes a scenario with a judge who no longer can separate right from wrong. Such an ambivalence continues to diffuse the motives of what we know as morally and juridically just throughout the entire exhibition. Continue reading ‘The prehistory of The Inadequate: “I am a judge”, Index, Stockholm’

The prehistory of The Inadequate: Peep-Hole sheet

Tuesday, May 10 - 16.29h
Dora wrote

Dora García – Mad Marginal
Issue #03 – Winter 2009

On the occasion of Peep-Hole Sheet #03, Dora García presents Mad Marginal. This is the first appearance of a larger project, titled in the same way, that the artist is developing for Fondazione Galleria Civica Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento. The whole project is prompted by Dora García’s readings of the writings of Franco Basaglia and is related to issues of censorship, audience-artist relationship, mainstream and marginality. Continue reading ‘The prehistory of The Inadequate: Peep-Hole sheet’