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Love with Obstacles (Amor Rojo) brings together Spanish artist Dora Garcia’s collaborative research on the life and legacy of Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952)—a revolutionary, socialist, feminist, activist, and intellectual. From 1922 to 1945, Kollontai was a Soviet ambassador in various countries, including Mexico. She was a key agitator for the sexual and social emancipation of women; as the only female member of the first Soviet government, she also managed to implement many measures women continue to fight for today, including the legalization of abortion and the protection of women’s rights. Already at the end of the 1920s, Kollontai’s texts had been translated into many languages, finding a special resonance in Spanish-speaking countries; her influence is still felt in contemporary Latin American feminist struggles. The book includes Alexandra Kollontai’s essay “On the ‘Dragon’ and the ‘White Bird,’” translated into English here for the first time. It is followed by a selection of poems by Anna Akhmatova, one of the most significant Russian poets of the twentieth century. In keeping with Amor Rojo’s focus on Kollontai’s legacy in Mexico and her connection to contemporary feminist movements, the book also features a rare collection of images that document women’s struggles from the Archive of the Feminist Movement (1964 to 1990), created by the editor, activist, and photographer Ana Victoria Jiménez, and the Historical Archive of the Lesbian Feminist Movement in Mexico (1976–present), founded by the lesbian feminist activist Yan María Yaoyólotl.

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In her research, Dora Garcia explores—through the figures of James Joyce and Robert Walser—deviant literature, exploded language, the unconscious, and the notion of exile as inherent to artistic practice. García is currently examining voice-hearing and other extrasensory perceptions. Mad Marginal Charts, an abstract mapping of references central to her idea of marginality as an artistic position, marks her trajectory in this new cycle of works, which has been featured and elaborated in exhibitions in 2014 and 2015.

Art and literature --- Art, Spanish --- Marginality, Social, in art --- García, Dora, - 1965-

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Inserts in Real Time is the first monograph dedicated to the performance work of the artist Dora García from the past twenty years. At the heart of this book is a Chronology of all García’s performances to date—listed, illustrated, described, and contextualized. This body of work is framed by three newly commissioned texts—by art historian Sven Lütticken, performance theorist Bojana Cvejić, and Dora García herself, as well as a new conversation between the artist and curator Joanna Zielińska. An Appendix of Selected Scripts makes this archive an especially vivid relay of her decades of public experimentation, provocation, and activation.

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If I Could Wish for Something vertelt vanuit verschillende perspectieven het fascinerende, intense en nogal melancholische liefdesverhaal tussen socialisme en feminisme. Onderweg biedt het inzicht in de verbindingen tussen vrouwen en de geschreven taal, tussen allerhande vormen van inclusieve vrouwelijkheid met verschillende namen. De schaduw van de bolsjewistische revolutionair, seksuele activiste en diplomate Alexandra Kollontai doemt op in dit boek. Twee ideeën uit de nalatenschap van Kollontai worden in het bijzonder onderzocht. Ten eerste die van ‘de nieuwe vrouw’: uit het nieuwe socialistische tijdperk rees een nieuw soort vrouw op die niet alleen economische emancipatie zocht, maar ook de gevestigde sociale en familiale structuren volledig ondermijnde. Het tweede idee is dat van de ‘kameraadschappelijke liefde’: Kollontai voorspelde niet alleen dat het burgerlijke gezin zou verdwijnen, maar ook de romantische liefde. Liefde zou het koppel overstijgen, geloofde ze, om te worden omgeleid naar de gemeenschap en zo een revolutionaire, verenigende kracht zou worden. De titel If I Could Wish for Something is ontleend aan Friedrich Holländers Weimar-lied 'Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte'. De teksten worden gezongen vanuit het blikveld van een vrouw die probeert gelukkig te zijn, maar niet te gelukkig, omdat verdriet een toevluchtsoord voor haar is geworden. Dit gevoel is typerend voor het beladen ‘liefdesverhaal’ tussen feminisme en socialisme, tussen liefde en revolutie. ‘Het vrouwenvraagstuk’ wordt sinds de negentiende eeuw door elke revolutionaire beweging op de vingers getikt. Deze decennia van desillusie zijn een essentieel onderdeel van de feministische geschiedenis.

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