Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed. Dora Garcia

venue:
Gallery On The Move, Tirana

Gallery On The Move is proud to present Dora Garcia´s "Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed", from March 10, 2015 until April 1, 2015. "Just Because Everything Is Different It Does Not Mean That Anything Has Changed" is a video-documentation of Lenny Bruce´s performance at Sydney Biennale in 2008. The stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce, one of the most fascinating and tragic personalities of the revolutionary sixties, visited Sydney on 6 September 1962. He was able to deliver only an one-sentence performance: after saluting the public with the words: ‘What a fucking wonderful audience!’ he was promptly arrested on the grounds of obscenity. Richard Neville, a young Australian who would become the guru of London’s counterculture, saw this brief performance and, understanding the importance of Bruce’s position within the generational revolution that was about to start, attempted to organise a new performance at the University of New South Wales. The Australian authorities would not allow Bruce to perform and he was asked to leave the country, never to return. García has imagined the performance that never took place and for the Biennale of Sydney 2008 she ‘lets’ Lenny Bruce finally speak in Sydney.

Dora Garcia was born in 1965 in Valladolid. Lives and works in Barcelona. After graduate studies Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca, she frequented Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam. Since 1999 she has created several works on the web (doragarcia.net). Garcia has represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale. She has also exhibited at Documenta 13, Kunsthalle Bern, Galerie Michel Rein Paris, SMAK Gent, MUSAC Leon, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, MACBA Barcelona, Jeu de Paume Paris, Sao Paulo Biennial, Gwangju Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 10e Biennale de Lyon, Artists Space New York, 1st Quadrennial for Contemporary Art Copenhagen, Kunsthalle Basel, Sydney Biennial, MUDAM Luxembourg, TATE Modern London and Centre Pompidou Paris.