Juana Dolores

Invitado de Honor

Juana Dolores is an actor, playwright, director and video artist. Her true vocation, however, is writing – the common thread running through all her work – which is rooted in a constant dialogue between politics and aesthetics.
She has published Bijuteria (Costume Jewellery) (Amadeu Oller Prize) and i si una nació desfilant per una catifa vermella (What If a Nation Parading on a Red Carpet). 
In the field of audiovisuals, she conceived and created Limpieza (Cleaning), a pamphlet against the exploitation and discrimination of domestic and cleaning workers, and Miss Universo (Miss Universe), an interview with a beauty queen reflecting on labour, violence and love through Georges Bataille’s concept of eroticism. 
She has written, directed and performed Juana Dolores, demasiado diva para un movimiento asambleario (Juana Dolores: Too Diva for an Assembly Movement), the tantrum of a working-class girl lip-syncing
in front of her parents’ mirror, and HIT ME IF I’M PRETTY o la princesa moderna (HIT ME IF I’M PRETTY Or The Modern Princess), a feminine and sexualised reinterpretation of Machiavelli’s The Prince and Gramsci’s The Modern Prince.
Her latest stage work, Qui diu foc, diu flama – oda, intermedi, elegia (Whoever Says Fire, Says Flame – Ode, Interlude, Elegy), based on Brossa’s work, 
launches a series of performances titled Altres versions (Other Versions), which reimagine the work of artists such as Antoni Tàpies, Joan Miró and Frida Kahlo.
Her current practice focuses on research and experimentation around the imagination of revolution, exploring the agitational and propagandistic potential of art, alongside the historical-artistic study of revolutionary tradition, femininity, sexuality, desire, eroticism and pornography.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Tribute to Joan Brossa. Poetry, politics, and nonconformity
The Poetry Room
Expanded Poetry Evening