New Artica Writings essay by artist Dora García

Dora García, The Joycean Society, 2013, 54'

The second essay for Artica Writings 2021: ‘O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all (FW, I, 8, 196)’ by Spanish artist Dora García is available to read here.

García has taken as her starting point the experimental novel, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (published in 1939) and the character of Anna Livia. Leading us on a journey to explore and un-loop the complex threads of storytelling.

Dora García lives and works in Barcelona and Oslo. She currently teaches at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway and Le Fresnoy, France. She has represented Spain at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and was present again in the Venice Biennale 2013. She took part in the 56th Venice International Art Exhibition, dOCUMENTA(13) and other international events such as Münster Sculpture Projects in 2007, Sydney Biennale 2008 and Sao Paulo Biennale 2010. Her work is largely performative and deals with issues related to community and individuality in contemporary society, exploring the political potential of marginal positions, paying homage to eccentric characters and antiheroes. These eccentric characters have often been the center of her film projects, such as The Deviant Majority (2010), The Joycean Society (2013) and Segunda Vez (2018).

Other articles from this years series inspired by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021 - 2030), including Philip Hoare’s Of The Monstrous Pictures of Whales, and all previous Artica Writings essays can also be read here.