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Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS: Dora Garcia - Be an outlaw, be a hero | Dolores : Katarina Zdjelar - Everything is Gonna Be - 18 Oct 2008 to 22 Nov 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Dora Garcia, Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything
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Dora Garcia | Katarina Zdjelar Opening Saturday 18 October 17-19 h. Exhibition 18 October - 22 November Gallery hours: Tu-Sat. 11 - 18 h. 1st Sunday of the month 14 - 17 h. Dora Garcia - Be an outlaw, be a hero "Cara de Cavalo (Portuguese for "horse face") was 23 years old when they shot him dead, with more than a hundred bullets. His body was then covered with a sort of flag with a skull and two shinbones, the symbol of the death squads. Cara de Cavalo was a friend of Helio Oiticica, as he was a friend of many people in the favelas of Rio. Helio Oiticica said that, apart from their personal friendship, Cara de Cavalo represented for him an "ethic moment". He was the symbol of the individual rebellion against the system of repression and oppression, he was the bandit. Crime is, like art, a desperate search for happiness and completeness, a defiance of the destiny embossed upon someone by society. And then, the artist is a criminal as well, someone who must take distance from his expected audience of correct leftists and compassionate right-wingers, someone who has to push the limits of the audience's paternalist tolerance to what cannot be tolerated any more. Audiences are tolerant with artists, to a certain point. This tolerance irritates artists: "I don't want any break in the world, I want justice" said Lenny Bruce to the judge. Justice! (...) A 1968 concert in Rio featuring Gaetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and the radical group Os Mutantes was censored by the authorities because of the inclusion of a banner, made by Oiticica, reading "SEJA MARGINAL SEJA HEROI!" (Be an outlaw Be a hero!). Subsequently, the musicians went into exile in London. The banner bore as well an image of the outspread corpse of Cara de Cavalo." The text above is a fragment of the scripted performance "What a fucking wonderful audience" (Crowd series), by Dora Garc�a for the Sydney Biennale this year. This work, together with the video-performance work "Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed", and the video-game "GAME", present the figures of artists, comedians (Lenny Bruce) and psychiatrist-terrorists (Wolfgang Huber) as those who produce the "delinquent narrativity in a society" (yes, Certeau), the place where poetry and political awareness can finally meet. Dora Garc�a (Valladolid, 1965) studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Holland. She lives and works in Brussels, and her particular field of interest deals with the creation of situations or contexts that serve to alter the traditional relationship between artist, artwork, and spectator. Recently she had presentations at the 16th Sydney Biennial, Tate Modern, and the Institue of Contemporary Arts, London. Dolores: Katarina Zdjelar - Everything is Gonna Be (.) Zdjelar is (.) interested in the process of becoming in all its physically manifest uncertainties - in the attempts to perfect one's performance as well as in the production of a collective out of singular voices. The choice of a Beatles song allows both for the particularity of the choir to emerge and, simultaneously, for the problematisation of this very reference to the local. With a focus largely on the intimate presence of the individuals, the work is charged with an ambiguous sense of hesitation - a reserve that may suggest inability to let go and express oneself, or unwillingness to be either individual in all its imperfections or to merge into the communal voice and feeling. (excerpt from the text written by Taru Elfving, co-curator of LIAF 08) Katarina Zdjelar (born in 1979 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is an artist based in Rotterdam. Her works focuses on language, belonging and cultural identity. She mostly produces audiovisual works, and in addition to that, she has co-edited books (Another Publication, 2007 and Resonant Bodies Voices and Memories, 2008) and initiated projects that function as platforms for exchange of knowledge such as reading groups or an alternative language school for illegal immigrants. Most recently her exhibitions include: Towards a Future Present, LIAF(2008), The promised land, CAM, Chelsea Art Museum New York (2008); If I Cant Dance I Don't Want to be Part of your Revolution MUHKA, Antwerp (2007). Upcoming fairs: FIAC Paris, 23 - 26 October, Maria Pask, Keren Cytter, Lara Almarcegui Art Forum Berlin, 31 Oct - 3 Nov, Falke Pisano, Lara Almarcegui, Keren Cytter Artissima Turin, 7 - 9 November, Jeremiah Day, Lara Almarcegui, Dora Garcia, Keren Cytter Art Basel Miami Beach 4 -7 December Falke Pisano, Dora Garcia Upcoming gallery exhibitions: Thomas Rentmeister / Erkka Nissinen, 29 Nov - 10 Jan 09 Luuk Wilmering / Michael Bears, 17 Jan - 21 Feb 09 |
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