Extramural 2026. Second time/resurrection

To close the art project Extramural: Timelines / resurrection, and in partnership with the Filmoteca de Catalunya and the LOOP Festival, the Museu Tàpies is organising a season of screenings featuring three films by Dora García that share a single question: what does it mean to come back? Coming back to reading something, talking about something, bringing back bodies, idea and voices that history has tended to erase. Rather than seeing resurrection as a supernatural event, the season approaches it as a political and poetic practice: a gesture to reactivate memory that makes possible new forms of transmission, resistance and community.

The screenings of The Joycean Society (2013), Segunda Vez (2018) and (Revolución, cumple tu promesa) Amor rojo (2024) revisit different times and geographies in order to explore the persistence of ideas despite their apparent defeat. In all three films, reading, conversation, performance and film become devices able to bring out what seemed lost and keep alive things that continue to address the present.

The Second Time / resurrection series brings to cinema the issues that have run throughout the art project Extramural: Timelines / resurrection: how ideas outlast absences, how pictures can reactivate memory and what forms of life continue to emerge even after their disappearance. Instead of bringing it to an end, these three screenings propose a new opening up: each viewing is a second time, a new reading, a possible resurrection.

PROGRAMME

10 November

The Joycean Society is a film that follows a reading group at the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich, which has been meeting since 1986 to read Finnegans Wake together. This film turns shared reading into an exercise of perseverance, interpretation and construction of meaning, revealing the reading community as a form of cultural resistance.

The screening will be followed by a conversation between Dora García and writer and translator Miriam Cano.

17 November

Segunda Vez takes the figure of Argentinian psychoanalyst and theorist Oscar Masotta as its starting point to revisit the relations between concept art, psychoanalysis and political violence during the Argentinian dictatorship. Somewhere between a document, a fiction and a historical recreation, the film reflects upon the forced disappearances and the possibility of restoring, through art, what power has tried to erase.

The session will end with a conversation between Dora García and researcher Cloe Masotta.

20 November

(Revolución, cumple tu promesa) Amor rojo takes up the legacy of thinker and revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai to ask what remains today of the emancipatory promise of the 20th century. Connecting the revolutionary experiments of Russia and Mexico with contemporary Latin American trans-feminisms, the film imagines revolution not as a closed event, but as promise that remains open.

The screening will be accompanied by a conversation between Dora García and writer and journalist Andrea Valdés.

Film series with the collaboration of the Filmoteca de Catalunya, as part of the Loop Festival

A proposal of the project Extramural 2026, by Dora García, Timelines / resurrection.

Coordination: Judith Barnés, head of public programme at the Museu Tàpies