Segunda Vez

Trailer No. 2 Segunda Vez from Dora Garcia on Vimeo.

Trailer_1 Segunda Vez from Dora Garcia on Vimeo.

In Segunda Vez, García weaves together a sequence of seemingly disparate scenes that are bound by the act of repetition and observation: posters plastered along a wall advertise their own transmission—a phantom message in a bustling city; two audiences converge on a cliff top, divided in their knowledge of the scenario in which they are participating; a person, tied up in white cloth and ropes, is carried and left in a forest; the brief appearance of a helicopter causes some excitement and consternation; a group of poor and aging people is assembled on a podium, paid to endure violent light and sound for an hour, while an audience observes them; a library brings reading groups together who are aware they’re being watched; after a mysterious official summons, strangers chat in a waiting room anticipating what may happen—one young man among them has been called to return for a second time around.

Teaser Segunda Vez from Dora Garcia on Vimeo.

Rike Frank, Charlotte Posenenske, Drehflügel / Revolving Vane (1967/ 68/ 2017) from Dora Garcia on Vimeo.

Segunda Vez Open Seminar - Cloe Masotta from Dora Garcia on Vimeo.

Segunda Vez-Nora Joung from Dora Garcia on Vimeo.

Para inducir el espíritu de la imagen MUAC México 18 March 2017 from Dora Garcia on Vimeo.

This happening by Oscar Masotta took place for the first time in the Institute Di Tella fifty years ago. It was one of the politically more controversial actions of the sixties, confronting the audience of the Di Tella with a group of actors, pretending to be Lumpenproletariat, standing on a podium, subjected to intense light and a penetrating sound. Dora García has repeated the same happening in 2016, and filmed it.

At the request of Ana Longoni, for the exhibition curated by her at the MUAC Mexico DF “Oscar Masotta: Theory as Action”, the happening was repeated once more at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo de la Ciudad de México: http://muac.unam.mx/evento-detalle-144-para-inducir-el-espiritu-de-la–imagen-un-happening-de-oscar–masotta.-repeticion-de-dora-garcia

More info on “Oscar Masotta, Theory as Action”: http://muac.unam.mx/expo-detalle-122-oscar-masotta.-la-teoria-como-accion.-

Filmed by Periscopio, MUAC, lead performer: Michelangelo Miccolis.

In 1966 Argentinian author, critic and psychoanalyst Oscar Masotta organised three happenings (or anti-happenings). These happenings still surprise us today because of their handling of audience, events, signs, narratives and haunting. We feel contemporary to this peculiar handling or perhaps not quite yet. El helicóptero is the first chapter of a larger film titled Segunda Vez which dwells on the idea of “happening again”, not only with respect to re-enactment, but even more so in the context of fantastic literature, visionary fiction and alternative history.

Video, color, 16:9, Basque & Spanish spoken, English subtitles, BE/ES, 2016, 23’10”. Happening by Oscar Masotta, October 1966. Happening again and filmed by Dora García, 12 September 2015

An Auguste Orts production.