While studying the conflictive relationship between socialism/revolution and feminism, Dora García came across diaries, notes, and letters from pivotal female figures as Hannah Arendt, Leslie Feinberg, Alexandra Kollontai, Audre Lorde, Rosa Luxembourg, María Dolores González Katarain (Yoyes), and Clara Zetnik, among others. A common theme in these documents is a sense of profound and bitter disappointment.
Dora García proposes a collective exercise: a group reading of the collection she gathered of “Letters of Disappointment”, moderated by her. After the reading the participants are invited to discuss their personal experiences and specific disappointments.
Image credit: Dora García, Letters of Disappointment, 2023, courtesy ProjecteSD Barcelona, photo by Roberto Ruiz
Biography
Dora García lives and works in Oslo. She currently teaches at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway. She has represented Spain at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and was present again in the Venice Biennale 2013. She took part in the 56th Venice International Art Exhibition, dOCUMENTA(13) and other international events such as Münster Sculpture Projects in 2007, Sydney Biennale 2008 and Sao Paulo Biennale 2010. Her work is largely performative and deals with issues related to community and individuality in contemporary society, exploring the political potential of marginal positions, paying homage to eccentric characters and antiheroes. These eccentric characters have often been the center of her film projects, such as “The Deviant Majority” (2010), “The Joycean Society” (2013) and “Segunda Vez” (2018).
