In Dora García’s durational performance Two Planets Have Been Colliding For
Thousands Of Years two performers, each positioned within one of two circles, face
each other with their gazes interlocked. As one of the two performers moves, the
other one must alter their position in order to maintain the same distance that they
agreed to keep between them at the beginning of the performance. All this must
happen while they maintain eye contact. At some point this becomes impossible
since the two circles are not concentric, so the performers must start again in this
endless game of constant negotiation. Evoking metaphorical walls, the floor
drawings are a reminder that even less visible walls often determine the course of our
actions.