García draws on interactivity and performance in her work, using the exhibition space as a platform to investigate the relationship between artwork, audience, and place.
[1] García transforms spaces into a sensory experiences by altering perception and creating situations of interaction, often using intermediaries (professional actors, amateurs, or people she meets by chance[2]) to enhance critical thinking.
In this regard, Dora García has developed works on the DDR political police, the Stasi ("Rooms, Conversations", film, 24 ', 2006),[4] on the charismatic figure of US stand up comedian Lenny Bruce ("Just because everything is different it does not mean that anything has changed, Lenny Bruce in Sydney", one-time performance, Sydney Biennale, 2008) or on the origins, rhizomatic associations and consequences of antipsychiatry ("Mad Marginal" book series since 2010, "The Deviant Majority", film, 34', 2010).
[5] In the last years, she has used classical TV formats to research Germany's most recent history ("Die Klau Mich Show", Documenta13, 2012), frequented Finnegans Wake reading groups ("The Joycean Society", film, 53', 2013), created meeting points for voice hearers ("The Hearing Voices Café", since 2014) and researched the crossover between performance and psychoanalysis ("The Sinthome Score", 2013, and "Segunda Vez", 2017).
[6] Selected exhibitions include: documenta 13, Kassel, Germany, 2012; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, 2010; Lyon Biennial, France, 2009; TATE Modern, London, UK, 2008; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2008; SMAK, Gent, Belgium, 2006, MUSAC, Leon, Spain, 2004, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.