Museu Tàpies

Mari Lyn Diniz / Dora García. Corocuerpo (de feminidades disidentes o Mejor os calláis todos)
2026-07-04 19:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Madrid)
Part of the Tàpies Museum project Extramurs 2026, curated by Imma Prieto, director of the Museu Tàpies, and Judith Barnés, head of public programmes at the Museu Tàpies.

A chorus of trans women raise their voices to engage in dialogue with one another and address the audience as if they were a Greek chorus. Resurrection as justice.
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Sylvia Rivera, one of the pioneers in the fight for the rights of gay, lesbian and trans people, delivered a speech at the New York City Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally in 1973 that became known as “Y’all Better Quiet Down”. Mari Lyn Diniz and Dora García will take inspiration from this speech in a performance art piece in which they work with a group of trans women who, like a Greek chorus, will interact with the audience.
This corocuerpo, or chorus/body, offers a direct critique of the structural violence of cis-normative discourse, both heterosexual and homosexual, and celebrates ways of life that have historically been excluded from the public sphere. The incorporation of excerpts from the song O Amor, by Brazilian singer Gal Costa, reinforces the idea of resurrection as justice: here, resurrection means bringing visibility to silenced voices, excluded bodies and dissident genealogies.
The concept of resurrection is also present in Dora García’s second creation in the Extramurs project, El bicho. The Gal Costa song that is recited adapts a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky (Amor 3), the same author who inspired El bicho.
Corocuerpo (De feminidades disidentes o Mejor os calláis todos) and El bicho form part of the Tàpies Museum project Extramurs, which conceives the city as a space for action and outreach. With a multidisciplinary and inclusive approach, it fosters dialogue between institutions, with public spaces and with the environment. Developed in collaboration with Barcelona’s Eina University School of Art and Design and the Barcelona Grec Festival, among others, the Extramurs project proposes creations and activities that address contemporary needs and encourage new community narratives in urban spaces. It champions the idea of public walls as bearers of city residents’ voices, places where collective narratives take shape and shared experiences are re-signified, connecting directly with Tàpies’ thinking.
Each annual edition of Extramurs moves from the Tàpies Museum into public spaces in collaboration with the Barcelona Grec Festival and other city institutions. The 2026 edition has invited the artist Dora García. Dora García works primarily in the visual arts and occasionally dance and theatre, as well as engaging with social and political contexts. Her work spans literature, film, installation and performance art, and focuses on stories she constructs and stages herself, creating situations designed to engage visitors and create unique, introspective experiences.
A production by the Museu Tàpies and the 2026 Barcelona Grec Festival.

Performers: Mari Lyn Diniz (BR) | Amanda Araújo (BR) | Helen Bogado (AR) | Lola Callejas (CL) | Milah Lorsalles (AR) | Soltanaterra (BR)
With the collaboration of:
Daniela Barriga | Isidora Cruz Berta Esteve | Bárbara Lara Leiva | Ben Muñoz | Mitzi Reyna, students of the Master Universitario en Investigación en Arte y Diseño (MURAD), Eina
Lucas Camacho | Carla López | Sara Mato, students of the Desing Degree, Eina
Rita Duelt | Mireia Solé, students of the Humanities Degree, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Dora García. El Bicho
2026-07-04 20:00 - 22:00
Part of the Tàpies Museum project Extramurs 2026, curated by Imma Prieto, director of the Tàpies Museum, and Judith Barnés, head of public programmes at the museum.

Taking the satirical comedy of a disillusioned poet as the starting point, a leading figure in performance art invites us to break down the hierarchy between audience and performance artists in pursuit of the “bug” of our time.

In 1929, the futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote “The Bedbug” (published in Spanish as “La chinche”), a science-fiction story about a Soviet revolutionary who, in 1929, is accidentally frozen along with an insect that parasitises him. Fifty years later, in 1979, both the revolutionary and the insect come back to life.
Obsessed with this story, Dora García creates a work of performance art involving seven performers and the audience, imagining a collective author who asks what happens over a fifty-year period, who or what tells what has happened, and who decides which events have transformed the world over that time.
The piece (which varies in length depending on the space in which it is presented) imagines a story repeated cyclically, a kind of eternal return that, however, contains a flaw, a parasite, an insect, a bug, that prevents this repetition from unfolding without victims. Each presentation of the performance involves the audience in a different activity: sometimes it is a lecture, sometimes a workshop, or perhaps a dance class or a skating demonstration; and sometimes a play. Here, hierarchies are subverted: between performer and viewer, between those who speak and those who listen.
El Bicho (like the Corocuerpo, performance art piece, also included in the Grec programme) forms part of the Tàpies Museum project Extramurs, which conceives the city as a space for action and outreach. With a multidisciplinary and inclusive approach, it fosters dialogue between institutions, with public spaces and with the environment. Developed in collaboration with Barcelona’s EINA University School of Art and Design and the Barcelona Grec Festival, among others, the Extramurs project proposes creations and activities that address contemporary needs and encourage new community narratives in urban spaces. It champions the idea of public walls as bearers of city residents’ voices, places where collective narratives take shape and shared experiences are re-signified, connecting directly with Tàpies’ thinking.
Each annual edition of Extramurs moves from the Tàpies Museum into public spaces in collaboration with the Barcelona Grec Festival and other city institutions. The 2026 edition has invited the artist Dora García. Dora García works primarily in the visual arts and occasionally dance and theatre, as well as engaging with social and political contexts. Her work spans literature, film, installation and performance art, and focuses on stories she constructs and stages herself, creating situations designed to engage visitors and create unique, introspective experiences.
A production by the Tàpies Museum, the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the 2026 Barcelona Grec Festival.
Suitable for audiences of all ages.

Performers:
Dora García | Simón Asencio | Persis Bekkering | Michelangelo Miccolis | Adriano Wilfert Jensen | Castillo | Krõõt Juurak

Thanks to:
IUAV Venezia | KHiO Oslo | DeSingel & M KHA Amberes | and the students of the course THE BUG at the Oslo National Academy of Arts
