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Group Exhibition

Inventer le possible: Une vidéothèque éphémère, Jeu de Paume, Paris, Oct. 14- Feb. 8

Inventing the Possible: Ephemeral Video Library The artists
Edgardo Aragón Díaz; Yto Barrada; Eric Baudelaire; Ursula Biemann; Wim Catrysse; Martin Le Chevallier; Declinación Magnética; Theo Eshetu; Mahdi Fleifel; Yang Fudong; Sirah Foighel Brutmann et Eitan Efrat; Peter Friedl; Pauline Horovitz; Marine Hugonnier; Hayoun Kwon; Naeem Mohaiemen; Wendy Morris; Carlos Motta; Els Opsomer; Daniela Ortiz & Xosé Quiroga; Anxiong Qiu; Khvay Samnang; Allan Sekula; Hito Steyerl; Atsushi Wada; Artur Żmijewski. Curators
Hilde Van Gelder, professor of modern and contemporary art history at KU Leuven and director of the Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography, and Marta Ponsa, head of art projects and cultural outreach, Jeu de Paume. more info here
Screening and Talk

Conversations at the Edge, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 2, 6pm

Carlos Motta: Nefandus Trilogy Thursday, October 2, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Carlos Motta in person

Carlos Motta's practice draws upon various political histories in an attempt to articulate counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. Composed of the three films Nefandus, Shipwreck (Naufragios),and The Defeated (La visión de los vencidos), his 2013 Nefandus Trilogy is a haunting examination of pre-Hispanic homoeroticism and its brutal stigmatization during Europe's colonization of the Americas. Motta accompanies the trilogy with excerpts from his ongoing Democracy Cycle, including We Who Feel Differently (2011), a database documentary that addresses critical issues of contemporary queer culture, and Gender Talents(in-progress), a multiplatform documentary on international trans and intersex activism.

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Group Exhibition

BY INVITATION ONLY, Instant HERLEV institute, Copenhagen, August 14

BY INVITATION ONLY curated by Lucia Sanroman, Mexico City. Opening the 9th of August, 2014 – 21hrs. For 10 years IHi has looked outward from Franke’s home towards the conditions of her surroundings and the forms of living and building around her house. The 2014 edition, however, will look inward, towards the interior of her home and the possibilities offered by the domestic space to become another kind of microcosm, that of the nation-state as addresses its relationship to others, whether foreigners or nationals, friends or foes. Entitled “By Invitation Only” the exhibition I have proposed explores the concept of hospitality through its negative: exclusion, control, discrimination and social stereotyping. Artist participating: Azra Aksamija (BiH – USA), Ricardo Domingues (MX – USA), Anja Franke (DK), Dor Guez (IL), Miki Kartsman (IL), Carlos Motta (CO – US), Camilo Ontiveros (MX – USA), Omar Pimienta (MX – US), Susan Silton (USA), Sergio de la Torre (MX – USA), Winter Studio (USA – MX – DK).

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Group Exhibition

PORT, Galerij Verbeeck-Van Dyck, Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, August 3-9

EXHIBITION: PORT August 3-9, 12h - 17h Galerij Verbeeck-Van Dyck Westkaai-Verbindingsdok 12, 2000 Antwerpen PORT has selected a cargo of unconventional artists that will import different perspectives on queer topics in art. We will lift the veil on a large, Wild(e), and transgressive art world by unlocking the potential of various media, such as: photography, sculpture, installation, video-art, literature, and performance art. Our dynamic, fathomless, idiosyncratic juxtaposition of art(ists) enacts the exhibition’s desire to break through mass-produced notions of what it means to be gay, lesbian, bi, or trans. PORT will tip your velvet and unlock your mind. Norwegian artist Thomas Grødal is the curator of the exhibition of the Antwerp Queer Arts Festival. In the exhibition, he will show his own work as well as that of other artists working on sexual and gender identities: Kasper Bosmans, Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty, Rachid Laachir, Roberto Espinosa, Chrysanne Stathacos and Hunter Reynolds, Zanele Muholi, Yishay Garbasz, Carlos Motta and Matthias Herrmann. Norwegian artist Thomas Grødal studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, Antwerp and the University of Birmingham. He made exhibitions in, among others, Middelheimmuseum (The Tiberius Principle) Turijn (Fondazione 107) and the M HKA (MUHKALUMNI). His language consists of paintings, sculptures and installations all referring to the inner turmoil he experienced growing up in a small, traditional Norwegian town surrounded by coast an pine trees. His most recent work revolves around this existential question; How can one be part of a community, and still be free?

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Screening

Tropical Uncanny: Latin American Tropes and Mythologies Film Series “Remapping the New World”, August 8, 1pm, Guggenheim Museum, New York

Journey to a Land Otherwise Known  (Laura Huertas Millán, Colombia/France, 2011, 22 min. In French with English subtitles) Nefandus (Carlos Motta, U.S./Colombia, 2013, 13 min. In Spanish and Kogi with English Subtitles) Ex It (Cao Guimarães, Brazil, 2010, 86 min. In Portuguese, with English subtitles) Three visual artists reconsider the New World by advancing provocative alternative cartographies. Laura Huertas Millán’s Journey to a Land Otherwise Known was shot at a tropical greenhouse in Lille, France, and uses written accounts by European colonizers to construct a fake ethnography of the New World that is critical of its prevalent exoticization. In Carlos Motta’s visual essay Nefandus, an indigenous man and a Spanish-speaking man swap stories about acts of sodomy that took place in the Americas during the conquest, while Cao Guimarães’s Ex It (Ex Isto)imagines Descartes on a tropical journey through Brazil. The screening is introduced by exhibition curator Pablo León de la Barra and concludes with a Q&A with artist Carlos Motta and Cinema Tropical cofounder Carlos Gutiérrez. Screened as part of the film series Tropical Uncanny: Latin American Tropes and Mythologies and presented in conjunction with Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today.

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