DATA MINING
Wallspace
July 6 - August 5, 2006
Conrad Bakker
Jay Chung
Dora Garcia
Chris Moukarbel
Karen Reimer
Gerhard Richter
[The voice of] Robert Smithson
Donelle Woolford
DORA GARCIAĦs work investigates the parameters of reality by creating situations in which performance, memory, and lived experience overlap and contradict each other. Her most expansive works, staged in such venues as the MACBA in Barcelona or the SMAK in Ghent, involve hired actors performing a drama that unfolds over the course of six or more weeks, in the process drawing viewers into the narrativeĦs web. For example, in A Crowd, "some people among them start to perform certain actions, apparently at random. The meaning of these random actions is unclear to the rest of the crowd, but one thing they do know: if they belong together, they do not belong to (with) us."
Her more modest works are also dedicated to repeating, reversing and accumulating information. Included in this show is volume of All The Stories, an ongoing series of books cataloguing a synopsis of every story that exists.
Links
www.doragarcia.net
www.musac.org.es
www.galeriejanmot.com
