Dora García's Performative Traces at Galerie Michel Rein

Dora García (born 1965, Spain) presents documentation of 2008 performances at Galerie Michel Rein in Paris, from March 14 to April 11, 2009. The exhibition includes annotated scripts, photographs, and videos as traces of performances that cannot be reactivated. García states these works exist only as documentation. The pieces follow her 2007 Beggar's Opera for Skulptur Projekte Münster, where actors played beggars. In 2008, she reenacted Lenny Bruce's 1962 Sydney Biennale performance, which led to his arrest. Her new performance cites works by Hélio Oiticica, Chris Burden, and Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle, extending the notion of 'outrage to the public.' García also organized a guided tour of works by an artist who produces none, referencing Jean-Yves Jouannais's Artistes sans œuvres and Andrea Fraser's museum parodies, affirming her institutional critique.