On Collections: Dora García on Ida Applebroog

December 2022
Episode 3
Dora García on Ida Applebroog
53:16

Recall: Evening of Performances (2008–2019) is a year-long series of interviews, podcasts and contributions from some of the artists who participated in the twelve editions of our celebrated Evening of Performances. Highlighting the extraordinary legacies of this performance programme, we will be exploring what the next wave of contemporary performance can become with the artists who have shaped it so far.

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Ida Applebroog, A Performance, 1977-1981

Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. © Ida Applebroog. Photo: Emily Poole

In this podcast series, we ask an artist represented in the David and Indrė Roberts Collection, and who was also part of one of the Evening of Performances, to select a work by another artist represented in the collection as the starting point for the discussion.

We invited Dora García, an artist who often draws on interactivity and performance in her work. At our 2008 Evening of Performances, García performed The Game of Questions, a performance that blurred boundaries between spectator and performer.

In this edition, she chose Ida Applebroog’s A Performance, 1977-1981 which sparks a discussion about reading and performance, marginality and collaboration.

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Dora García

Courtesy the artist

Recall: Evening of Performances (2008–2019)

For well over a decade, we have been championing performance across its many forms – from intimate spoken word to absurdist interventions, DJing, dance, music, theatre, fashion and much more. We brought this all together as exhilarating one-night showcases in twelve editions of our Evening of Performances.

As we move into a new phase of programming, it is time to draw the curtain on this format and explore other sustainable and meaningful ways to support performance artists and audience engagement across the UK. As we prepare for this exciting new chapter, we also turn to the artists and performers we have closely collaborated with in the past, to celebrate, listen and learn from their perspectives and keep evolving with the field of performance.

Dora García

Dora García is an artist, teacher and researcher who often draws on interactivity and performance in her work. Critically looking at the binary of reality versus fiction, García often uses intermediaries, professional actors, amateurs or people she meets by chance in her work, sometimes implicating visitors knowingly or not as protagonists. She has exhibited, performed and presented on her work in exhibitions internationally, including at Documenta 13 in 2012 and the 54th Venice Biennale, where she represented the Spanish pavilion in 2011.

Ida Applebroog

Painter and feminist pioneer Ida Applebroog has spent the past five decades conducting a sustained inquiry into the polemics of human relations. She explores themes of violence and power, gender politics, women’s sexuality and domestic space often using images stylistically reminiscent of comics. Applebroog is the recipient of many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association.

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