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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.

Garcia, Dora --- Kollontai, Alexandra

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A tribute to Abbie Hoffmann's pamphlet of the same name, Steal this Book documents eleven recent performative projects by Spanish artist Dora García. Edited by Franc̜ois Piron, the book presents the private correspondence of the artist with the various interpreters of the situations she sets up in the public space. It proposes a documentation of a body of work without an overview, nor an official line, since it takes neither the artist point of view nor the critic's. Instead, it discloses questions, misunderstandings and arguments, making this book part suspense story, part user's manual, part script for a stand-up comedy. Steal this Book is presented in exhibitions as a Dora García sculpture meant to be stolen, but can also be found in selected bookstores worldwide.

Garcia, Dora --- Ecrit d'artiste --- Performance --- Installation --- Installation-art --- Women artists --- Artists' books --- kunst --- 7.071 --- performances --- epistolaire literatuur --- kunst en literatuur --- brieven --- kunstenaarsgeschriften --- García Dora --- conceptuele kunst --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- concept art --- Artist books --- Book art --- Book works (Art) --- Books, Artists' --- Bookworks (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Books --- Artists, Women --- Women as artists --- Artists --- García, Dora,

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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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Boekeloo, Wout --- Craig, Stephen --- de Graaff, Peter --- Stewart, Edward --- Suermondt, Robert --- de Vries, Jan --- Nibbering, Annemarie --- Garcia Lopez, Dora

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