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 GARCIA's 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
