Although unable to find the exact quote now, I remember as a young artist being impressed on the following statement by William S. Burroughs: "Contemporary art is so much ahead of literature. We are still stuck on dialogue and character. But if we could follow the path of contemporary art, then novels would happen in real life". I decided to stick to that idea, and since the year 2000 I have made performances that are short stories, Lehrstücke, psychological and science fiction novels. There are characters appearing, disappearing and reappearing through them, thickening of plots, metamorphoses, and new and unexpected characters and plot turns. Sometimes it seems like a HBO TV series.
Dora García (born in Valladolid, Spain, 1965) lives and works in Barcelona and Oslo. She currently teaches at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway, and HEAD, Geneva. She is Co-Director for Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris. Her work is largely performative and deals with issues related to community and individuality in contemporary society, exploring the political potential of marginal positions and paying homage to eccentric characters and anti-heroes. She has exhibited her work at numerous international events such as the 54th, 55th and 56th Venice Biennale (2011, 2013 and 2015), documenta 12, the 29th São Paulo Biennale (2010), the 16th Sydney Biennale (2008) and Münster Sculpture Projects (2007).
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Gasthof at Robert Johnson
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Kabelo Malatsie: Sonic Formations —Third Note (a Sketch)
Lecture, 28 June 2022, 19:00
Asad Raza: Metabolisms
Lecture, 21 June 2022, 19:00
New Mineral Collective: On Earth, Pleasure and Desire
Lecture, 14 June 2022, 19:00
Anthony Huberman: Bang on a Can
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Sung Tieu: Ghosts In The Machine
Lecture, 7 June 2022, 19:00
"Jochen Lempert: "Paare/ Pairs" with a poetry reading by Marion Poschmann
Book Launch, 2 June 2022, 18:00
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Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius: The Pilikia with Cohabitation
Lecture, 24 May 2022, 19:00
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Lecture, 10 May 2022, 19:00
Ursula Biemann: Forest as a Field of Mind
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Lecture, 26 April – 28 June 2022, 19:00
Laura Huertas Millán: Ethnographic fictions
Lecture, 26 April 2022, 19:00
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Daniel Birnbaum: Notes on the frames of art
Event, 10 April 2022, 15:00–17:00
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Judith Hopf Class: Grand Nizza Show
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Rundgang 2022
Exhibition, 18 – 20 February 2022, 10:00–20:00
Pan Daijing
Online Lecture, 10 February 2022
Alessandro Petti and Sani Hilal: Stateless Heritage?
Online Lecture, 8 February 2022
Jordy Rosenberg: Lift Rift
Online Lecture, 2 February 2022
Ulrike Müller: Moving More Parts
Online Lecture, 25 January 2022
Park McArthur
Online Lecture, 18 January 2022
Sam Durant: Public Discourse?
Online Lecture, 11 January 2022

Dora García: Where do characters go when the story is over? On books and performance: Charles Filch, William Holden and Army of Love.
Lecture 12 January 2016, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main