Artist Talk
Carlos Motta and Marco Scotini, Arte Fiera Conversations, January 27, 2013
Centres and Peripheries: A Conversation with Carlos Motta and Marco Scotini, curated by Marco Scotini
Sunday, January 27, 5-6pm
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
Performance
The Movers, Tate Modern, February 2, 2013
The Movers is a performance conceived in collaboration between Carlos Motta and choreographer Matthias Sperling. The work attends to movement as a means of exploring the connections between collective politics and a sense of the individual. Based on a choreographic score of performative tasks that engage thirteen performers in individual decision-making processes, The Movers abstractly asks how self-determination is both a deeply personal project and continuously negotiated in relation to others.
Performers: Ingo Andersson—Wotever World, Jason Barker, Dan Daw, Simon Foxall, Liang Huai-Chih, Nia Hughes, Jamila Johnson Small, Roz Kaveney, Helka Kaski, Vicky Malin, Malinda Mukuma, Carlos Maria Romero and Mickel Smithen & Ebony Rose Dark.
Saturday Feb. 2, 2013
5 pm
Tate Modern, The Tanks
More info here
Symposium
Gender Talents: A Special Address, Tate Modern, February 2, 2013
Gender Talents: A Special Address, convened by Carlos Motta, presents an international group of thinkers, activists, and artists in a symposium that uses the proposition or manifesto as a structuring device and starting point for discussion. These ‘special addresses’ will explore models and strategies that transform the ways in which society perversely defines and regulates bodies. The event seeks to ask what is at stake when collapsing, inverting or abandoning the gender binary. Here the relation between self-determination and solidarity in processes of systemic change form the foundation of a pragmatic, but also euphoric exploration of ways of being ungoverned by normative gender.
With Xabier Arakistain, Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, Giuseppe Campuzano, J. Jack Halberstam, Carlos Motta, Beatriz Preciado, Dean Spade, Terre Thaemlitz, Wu Tsang, Del LaGrace Volcano and Campbell X.
Saturday Feb. 2, 2013
10:30 am-4:30 pm
Tate Modern, The Tanks
Group Exhibition
Extranjero, Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain
Artists: Carolina Antich, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, and Carlos Motta
Curated by Sonia Becce
Panel Discussion
Conflict and the Rebel City, Dorsky Gallery, October 21, 2012
A Panel Discussion, 3-4:30pm
Moderated by Miguel Amado
with artists Carlos Motta, Sreshta Rit Premnath, and curator Chelsea Haines
From left: Ivory Tower by Carlos Motta, I Will Die When I Stop Building by Sreshta Rit Premnat
Group Exhibition
From Below, as a Neighbour, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia
25 October - 6 November
'Mine, Yours, Ours', Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia
Babi Badalov, BADco., Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten, Kajsa Dahlberg, Öyvind Fahlström, Mark Leckey, Jennie Livingston, Carlos Motta, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Želimir Žilnik
From Below, as a Neighbour turns to the fragile institution: strategic detachments practised within temporary spaces of agency and relief. The exhibition forms the latest chapter in an ongoing exploration of utopian thought and practice extending from the first 'Summit of Micronations', a congress for new country projects held in Helsinki in 2003.
Taking this model as a point of departure, From Below, as a Neighbour seeks to radically expand on the micronation as a form of self-organisation, to explore alternative approaches that subvert and destabilize normative structures. In the works, the desire to produce forms of knowledge that also displace the knowledge itself, is present both as a practice and fantasy of shared autonomy. It is a take on utopia that emphasises the role of tenderness in collective politics, as a politics based not on the possibility that we might be reconciled, but on a continuous and nervous tension between self-determination and solidarity.
From Below, as a Neighbour, brings together a site-specific installation by Zagreb-based performance collective BADco.; an Armin Maiwald film realised as part of his long-running series Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten or 'Library of Factual Stories'; Öyvind Fahlström's choreographed street parade, Mao-Hope March; and Kajsa Dahlberg's exploration of the potential of representational invisibility. Also included is visual poetry and collages by Babi Badalov; We Who Feel Differently, a series of prints by Carlos Motta; Mark Leckey's Fiorucci Made me Hardcore; as well as work by pioneering Black Wave filmmaker and activist Želimir Žilnik.
Pil and Galia Kollectiv's contribution, part film, part performanceTerminal takes the form of a future morality play, one which turns to dystopia as a ritual and excercise, and premieres on 26 October at HKD Teatar.
Accompanying the exhibition are cinema screenings of Jennie Livingston's1990 documentary film Paris is Burning at Art Kino Croatia.
From Below as a Neighbour is curated by Fatima Hellberg (Electra) and realised as part of Practical Utopias, an ongoing collaboration betweenYKON (Finland), Electra (UK) and Drugo More (Croatia).
The exhibition and performance programme takes place within the framework of the 'Mine, Yours, Ours' festival, Drugo More, with the support of the British Council, Croatia; Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia; and the City of Rijeka.
Image credit: Achterbahn, Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten, 1992, courtesy of WDR mediagroup dialog GmbH
Round Table
Feeling Differently, Stanford University, October 10, 2012
Group Exhibition
Battleground States, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City
OCT 5, 2012-JAN 5, 2013
Battleground States brings together artists who critically engage with the discourse of visual culture and gender studies. Through video, sculpture, installation, and photography, these works explore ideas of how figuration and identity are connected.
The exhibition begins with Utah artist Trevor Southey as his process of self-realization has made him an art historical pivot when discussing gender politics within the culture of Utah. The narrative continues by presenting generations of artists across the globe, leading the viewer along a path of self-realization in which concepts of coupling or completing the self are represented as spiritual quests.
Battleground States analyzes the space between traditional gender duality by exploring alternative forms such as the third gender, a generally foreign concept in Western culture. In their non-Western roles, these alternative identities denote a space for possibility and transcendence. The exhibition moves towards notions of the “post-gender” as a way to better understand how our cultural diversities open up interpretations of a third space.
Artists: Daniel Albrigo, Absalon, Bas Jan Ader, Matthew Barney, Tobias Bernstrup, Robin Black, Nayland Blake, AA Bronson, Heather Cassils, Nicole Eisenman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jonathan Horowitz, Trishelle Jeffrey, Amy Jorgensen, Asma Kazmi, Terence Koh, Annie Leibowitz, David Levine, Matt Lipps, Georges Minne, Carlos Motta, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Bertrand Planes, Genesis Breyer P-orridge, Dean Sameshima, Jack Smith, Trevor Southey, David Wojnarowicz, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Guido van der Werve
Battleground States is made possible in part through the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the B. W. Bastian Foundation and IASPIS: The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists.
http://www.utahmoca.org/exhibitions/upcoming/battleground-states
Group Exhibition
Required Reading: Printed Material as Agent of Intervention, Center for Book Arts, NY
October 3 - December 15, 2012
Opening reception: Wednesday, October 3, 6-8pm
Required Reading: Printed Material as Agent of Intervention presents fifteen projects that range from published books and correspondence to performance and video documentation, and are meant to challenge a political or social issue. The works in this exhibition demonstrate the ability of printed materials to act as symbols of ideologies and beliefs. They are used by the participating artists as social agents—intervening in public space to expose an audience to new opportunities and alternative concepts. In a culture where visual noise is inescapable, printed matter provides an opportunity to pause, grasp, ruminate, and pass along. We use it to educate ourselves and others, to create a gash in a stagnant situation, articulate a new context, and imagine our society as it can and should be.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Yaelle Amir and Howard Zinn. Contact CBA or Yaelle to purchase a copy.
Included Artists/Projects:
Amy Balkin
AREA Chicago (Samuel Barnett, Euan Hague, Jayne Hileman, Dave Pabelllon, Daniel Tucker, and Rebecca Zorach)
Yevgeniy Fiks
Pablo Helguera
Marisa Jahn (REV-) with Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center
Packard Jennings
Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden
Steve Lambert and Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men (with 30 writers, 50 advisors, 1,000 volunteer distributors, CODEPINK, May First/People Link, Evil Twin, Improv Everywhere, and Not An Alternative)
Lize Mogel with Mara Cherkasky, John Cloud, and Ryan Shepardt
Queerocracy and Carlos Motta
Occupied Newspapers (The Boston Occupier, The Occupied Times of London, The Occupied Oakland Tribune, Occupy Pittsburgh Now, and The Occupied Wall Street Journal)
Sheryl Oring
Dread Scott
S.W.A.M.P. (Matt Kenyon with Doug Easterly)
Temporary Services, Tamms Year Ten and Sarah Ross
Curated by Yaelle S. Amir
For more information please visit the Center for Book Arts website or Yaelle's website.
Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, New York
Talk
Show and Tell: Carlos Motta and Larry Rinder in Conversation, YBCA, San Francisco, October 8, 2012
Oct 8, 2012 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gallery 2, FREE
Artist Carlos Motta and Larry Rinder, executive director of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, discuss queer difference and public identities. Motta will speak about two recent projects: We Who Feel Differently, a solo exhibition and symposium that took place at the New Museum, New York; and Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (with Joshua Lubin -Levy), a book that assembles drawings, by over sixty gay men, from memories of spaces in New York City where public sexual encounters occurred. Rinder’s talk will include a discussion of the 1995 groundbreaking exhibition, In a Different Light, which he co-curated with Nayland Blake, who will provide an introduction to the event.
