International Premiére
Toronto International Film Festival, September 8, 2013
Nefandus to have International Premiére in Wavelenghts Program - Toronto International Film Festival 2013
"An evocative essay on pre-conquest homoeroticism, Nefandus searches for traces of untold stories and stigmatized historical accounts." — TIFF
Talk
AA Bronson and Carlos Motta to Speak at Hyperallergic’s Wed Aug 21 ArtTalk
On Wednesday, August 21, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring artists AA Bronson and Carlos Motta at The Bedford in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The topic for that evening’s discussion and conversation is “The Body, Spirit, Sex, Community, Magic, and the Other,” which will be one of the focuses of the upcoming exhibition of AA Bronson’s work, The Temptation of AA Bronson, at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Award
Carlos Motta wins best video award in LOOP 2013, Barcelona
CARLOS MOTTA was the winner of Catalonia Rambles Award 2013, with the video "Nefandus" (2013) announced the jury composed by by Valentijn Byvanck, Bartomeu Marí, Mark Nash and Dirk Snauwaert, aquisition award by Screen Project/Loop to lent for MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Spain.
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Guest Editor
(im)practical (im)possibilities, e-flux journal # 44, April Issue
"(im)practical (im)possibilities" with essays by Gregg Bordowitz, Ryan Conrad and Sarah Schulman, Antke Engel and Renate Lorenz, Malik Gaines, Jack Halberstam, Nathan Lee, Miguel A. López,Beatriz Preciado, Virginia Solomon Greg Youmans. Edited by Carlos Motta
Video premiére
LOOP Barcelona, May 23-25
Galeria Filomena Soares: Carlos Motta's Nefandus, 2013
In Nefandus a man travels by canoe down the Don Diego river in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the Colombian Caribbean, a landscape of “wild” beauty. The man tells stories about pecados nefandos [unspeakable sins, abominable crimes]; acts of sodomy that took place in the Americas during the conquest. It has been documented that Spanish conquistadores used sex as a weapon of domination, but what is known about homoerotic pre-hispanic traditions? How did Christian morality, as taught by the Catholic missions and propagated through war during the Conquest, transform the natives’ relationship to sex? Nefandus attentively looks at the landscape, its movement and its sounds for clues of stories that remain untold and have been largely ignored and stigmatized in historical accounts.
