dora garcia
Dora GARCIA
Mad Marginal-Archives

Dora
García: Mad Marginal - Archives
Production
and publishing: Rosascape, Paris, 2011
Size: 33 x 28 x 7 cm.
This edition is limited to 10 French-language, 10 Spanish-language,
10 Italian-language and 10 English-language copies.
Each edition is numbered from 1 to 10 and signed by Dora García.
The artist's
book MAD MARGINAL developed in parallel with the eponymous project
Dora García has been working on since 2009. In the form
of an archival box file, this artist's book compiles 27 documents
(texts, photos, a DVD, a CD, emails, interviews and conversations,
leaflets, etc.) which have fueled Dora García's research
these past two years. These documents are identical facsimile
reproductions of the originals. Dealing with marginality as an
artistic and political position, Dora García attends to
the different meanings involved in such a position, considering
both the contradictory character and the beauty of the artist
as marginal figure. Her research first developed out of her reading
of texts by the Italian psychiatrist and essayist Franco Basaglia
(in the 1960s, among other things, the latter established and
ran the 'therapeutic communities' in Trieste and Gorizia that
campained for the rights of 'psychiatrised' people. In Italy
his struggle lead to Law 180 (1978) which aimed at abolishing
the psychiatric hospital). The Mad Marginal project is essentially
inscribed within the Trieste context, where the «Basaglian
revolution» gained momentum between 1971 and 1978. Dora
García's research for Mad Marginal also includes texts
by thinkers such as Fernand Deligny, Michel Foucault, David Cooper,
R.D. Laing, as well as writers and artists such as Jack Smith,
Antonin Artaud, Lenny Bruce, James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Robert Walser, etc.
In resonance with this project, the artist's book reproduces
a large number of the archives Dora García has been putting
together since 2009. From the very outset Mad Marginal - the
artist's book and the material it contains, that is - were conceived
of as a whole that would bring together, document and fuel the
research process and the artistic project. The rendering of the
various topographies attached to the various documents (texts
exerpted from websites, a tract, educational leaflets, emails,
etc.), to their original context (documents both from the 1970s-80s
and the present) and printing format and method (digital photographs,
DVD, CD, photocopies, books, digital prints, etc.) affords a
deep immersion into the complex network of documents grounding
Dora García's work.
The book was
part of the show Dora García presented at the Spanish
Pavillion in the 2011 Venice Biennale (June 4th - November 27th
2011).
Dora
García: Mad Marginal - Archives
Dora García: Mad Marginal - Archives
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