Talker #6: Dora García

Talker #6: Dora GarcíaTalker is an interview zine about performance. This is Issue #6. It features a conversation with Spanish artist Dora Garca. For over 18 years Garca has worked with performance to deal critically with relationships between artworks, audiences, and places. Her projects are often developed in response to works by others and deploy performers as intermediaries in ambiguous roles as undercover agents, prophets, guides or spies. In this conversation she

between the archaic artefact and the ultra-contemporary product

and excerpts from the artworks to construct a unique time and space for the reader

in response to the culture's "linguistic turn

We gather what we can

these figures and their hitherto under-researched work are highlighted in this publication through presentations

Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land

The book gathers pieces along lines of affinity

Instead of finding fault with mothers

universes and even humanity are birthed

Besides being an essential part of the show

The front and back cover contain two student-contributed indexes for more complex layers of reading beyond the broad categories that structure the publication

Jo Frenken