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

Thursday, May 12 - 19.49h
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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
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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.

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

Tuesday, May 10 - 16.42h
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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
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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’