Dora García
KHiO Oslo Norway
Biography
Dora García has developed works on the GDR political police (the film "Rooms, Conversations", 24', 2006, first presented at GfZK, Leipzig, Germany), on the comedian Lenny Bruce ("Just because everything is different... Lenny Bruce in Sydney”, one-time performance, Sydney Biennale, 2008) or on the rhizomatic associations of antipsychiatry ("Mad Marginal" book series since 2010, and "The Deviant Majority", film, 34', 2010, part of her performance project "The Inadequate", first presented at the Spanish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale). She has used classical TV formats to research Germany's most recent history ("Die Klau Mich Show", Documenta13, 2012), frequented Finnegans Wake reading groups ("The Joycean Society", 53', 2013), created meeting points for voice hearers ("The Hearing Voices Café", since 2014) and researched the crossover between performance and psychoanalysis ("The Sinthome Score", 2013, and "Segunda Vez", 2018). In 2018-24 she developed the film project "Amor Rojo", on Marxist feminist Alexandra Kollontai and the impact of her legacy on Third-World, intersectional transfeminisms.
She has produced, as editor and author, a large number of publications, among the most recent are: Inserts in Real Time (2023, M HKA, Antwerp, BE) If I Could Wish for Something (Netwerk BE & Fotogalleriet NO, 2021), Love with Obstacles (K.Verlag, DE 2020), On Reconciliation (K.Verlag, DE 2018), and Segunda Vez (Torpedo Books, NO 2018).
