Saturday, May 30, 2020; 10am
40 minute talk followed by 30 minutes of conversation broadcast at thelab.org

The Forum is a bi-weekly experiment in creating discourse within the context of isolation. Art creates a space for reconsidering our knowledge across various social and professional fields. It asks us: Why do we perceive things the way we do? What are we living for? How can we reimagine our relationships to the human and non-human world? The Forum proposes that the project of freedom is a project of making a world with others. So, we invite you to help us answer: what can we do now?

Dropping out. Quitting. Suspending. Saying no. Going on strike. Refusing. Basta. After being out of it, do we really want to go back? This webinar wants to research the possibility of dropping out as a political and personal act, as well as the connection of dropping out with feminism, feminization, and a dismissal of productivism (the belief that measurable productivity and growth are the purpose of human organization (e.g., work), and that more production (intellectual, artistic production) is necessarily good). 

Dora García lives and works in Barcelona and Oslo. García represented Spain at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and participated in the Venice Biennale for the second time in 2013. She took part in the 56th Venice International Art Exhibition, dOCUMENTA(13) and other international events such as Skulptur Projecte Münster in 2007, Biennale of Sydney 2008, and Sao Paulo Biennale in 2008 and 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).

Please bring your ideas, proposals, questions to discuss following the talk.