Dora Longo Bahia was born in Sao Paulo in 1961. Dora has a PhD in Visual Poetics from the School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo. She is also a professor of a visual arts course at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP).
In her work she has used different media: painting, photography, video and sound installations, films, books. Her relationship with music, especially punk rock of the 1980s, led her to participate in bands such as Disk-Putas and Blá Blá Blá, of which she is currently a member.
Among the various collective exhibitions in which she has participated, some of the most outstanding have been: ‘Video et après’, Centre Pompidou (France), IX Biennial Monterrey, FEMSA, Center for the Arts (Mexico); Shifting Constructs, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (USA) and the 28th edition of the International Biennial of Sao Paulo (Brazil).
For MDE11 she proposes to work with HG Wells’ novel “War of the Worlds”, which was subsequently adapted for radio broadcasting by Orson Welles in 1938, following Orson’s line of work.
Her version of the novel exposes not a world overrun by aliens, but a South America occupied by American soldiers. The emissaries assassinate former Cuban president Fidel Castro and lay siege to the city of Medellin.
It is an ironic reflection on the political situation in South America. She also strives to study the fragile boundaries between fiction and reality, in addition to the whole range of information conveyed by the media, from radio broadcasts to news on Internet. She also analyzes the authorship of the information: quotes, appropriation and plagiarism.
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