Group Show
Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan, Opening April 27, 2012
Art Fair
Galeria Filomena Soares at the Armory Show, March 8-11
Thursday - Saturday 10 am / 8 pm | Sunday 11am / 7 pm
Talk and Q&A
Petite Mort with Billy Miller at Leslie Lohman Gay and Lesbian Art Museum
Tuesday, February 28; 6-8 pm
26 Wooster Street, NYC
Does Public Sex Matter?
Discussion and Q&A with Billy Miller, contributing artist and Carlos Motta, co-editor
The book Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public assembles drawings from memory of spaces in New York City where a public sexual encounter occurred. A project created in collaboration between Carlos Motta and Joshua Lubin-Levy, it features drawing contributions from an inter-generational group of over 60 gay men and texts by 15 authors. Petite Mort reminds us that public sex is not exclusively about a personal pursuit of pleasure-they also contain the seeds of historical, social, and political action.
Billy Miller is a New York-based artist, curator, writer, filmmaker, and independent publisher. His artwork has been presented internationally. Petite Mort was curated by Ingrid Chu and Savannah Gorton, and commissioned and published by the non-profit Forever & Today, Inc.
The book will be available for purchase at the event or at Printed Matter, Inc.
Video Program
"Universal" at Arte Americas, Miami, March 3-5
Group Exhibition
ÑEW YORK Latin American and Spanish artists in New York, Art Museum of the Americas, D.C
February 16 - May 20, 2012
AMA ׀ Art Museum of the Americas
201 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Ñew York, featuring works by young, outstanding Latin American and Spanish artists residing in New York City commemorates a long lost artistic exchange and recovers innovative communication channels between Latin American and Spanish plastic and visual artists. The exhibition incorporates New York City as the current setting where these creative forces re-encounter themselves. The exhibition addresses mobility in an era of widespread displacement where barriers between the global and the local are broken down. Motion (mobility), Emotion (personal artistic work) and Promotion (promote and advance the careers of expat artists) are all addressed throughout the show. The artists were selected based on their accomplishments, artistic careers and their approach to concepts of mobility, migration and cultural exchange, all intrinsic to a city where new ideas, experiences and diversity converge.
Curated by Paco Cano, Eva Mendoza Chandas and Jodie Dinapoli (all from Spain), Ñew York showcases the work of 18 artists from 10 countries from Latin America and Spain -all based in New York - who have made this city the gravitating force of their artistic discourse.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Abigail Lazkoz (Spain)
Ada Bobonis (Puerto Rico)
Alberto Borea (Peru)
Antón Cabaleiro (Spain)
Carlos Motta (Colombia)
Julieta Aranda (Mexico)
Esperanza Mayobre (Venezuela)
Dulce Pinzón (Mexico)
Fernando Renes (Spain)
Félix Fernández (Spain)
Juanma Carrillo (Spain)
Iván Navarro (Chile)
Jessica Lagunas (Guatemala)
Lluis Lleó (Spain)
Manuela Viera-Gallo (Chile)
Manuel Molina Martagón (Mexico)
Sol Aramendi (Argentina)
Nicky Enright (Ecuador)
More info here
Conversation
Bulletin Board, January 15, 6pm
Grant
Carlos Motta is named 2012 Creative Capital Grantee
CREATIVE CAPITAL ANNOUNCES 2012 GRANTEES IN FILM/VIDEO AND VISUAL ARTS
Creative Capital announces its 2012 grants in Film/Video and Visual Arts to 46 adventurous projects representing 56 artists. For the 2012 grantees, Creative Capital will provide up to $50,000 in direct project funding, plus advisory services valued at more than $40,000. With the addition of the 46 new grantees, Creative Capital will have committed nearly $25 million in financial and advisory support to artistssince 1999, including nearly $3 million in 2011 alone.
The 2012 Creative Capital grants in Film/Video are awarded to: Cam Archer,Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo, Amy Belk & Matt Porterfield, Brad Butler, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, Eric Dyer, Daniel Eisenberg, Yance Ford, Brian L. Frye & Penny Lane, Sonali Gulati, Kenneth Jacobs, Nina Menkes,Akosua Adoma Owusu, Brian Pera, Rick Prelinger, Michael Robinson, Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Norbert Shieh, Stacey Steers, Deborah Stratman, Jesse Sugarmann, Christopher Sullivan and Jake Yuzna.
The 2012 Creative Capital grants in Visual Arts are awarded to: Janine Antoni, Raven Chacon & Nathan Young, Patty Chang, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Theaster Gates, Ken Gonzales-Day, Taraneh Hemami, Tahir Hemphill, Simone Leigh, Eric Leshinsky & Zach Moser, Phillip Andrew Lewis, Carlos Motta, My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon & Alexandro Segade), The Propeller Group (Matt Lucero & Tuan Andrew Nguyen), Teri Rofkar, Paul Rucker, Connie Samaras, Lisa Sigal, Jim Skuldt, Kerry Tribe, Joan Waltemath, Women (Scott Barry & Neil Doshi) and Amy Yao.
Creative Capital is a premier provider of risk capital in the arts. In the past year, Creative Capital has re-invigorated its grantmaking process to emphasize the importance of risk-taking: taking chances on projects that are singularly bold, innovative, genre-stretching and of this moment; ideas of scope and ambition expressed through audacious combinations of form and content; varied projects that engage or even create new technologies; and works that take traditional approaches into new territories, teaching us something new about the world and ourselves.
“With this new class of 2012 grantees, we are thrilled to support work that is highly contemporary, daring, delightful and complex—work that astonishes with the richness of its ideas,” commented Ruby Lerner, Creative Capital’s President & Executive Director. “Creative Capital continually aims to support the latest thinking in the field, and this year’s grantees push the boundaries of visual arts, film and video.”
Symposium
SITAC X: The Future: The Long Count Begins Again, Feb. 9,10 and 11, Mexico City
Exhibition and Book Launch
The Future Lasts Forever, Gävle Konstcentrum, Sweden
Opening reception: November 19, 3 pm
Presentation of the project by Carlos Motta and Runo Lagomarsino
Lecture by Miguel López, Red Conceptualismos del Sur
Moderator: Lisa Rosendahl, Director, Iaspis
The Future Lasts Forever is a book and exhibition project initiated by artists Runo Lagomarsino and Carlos Motta featuring contributions by 21 artists, collectives, and writers who reflect about “the future of Latin America.”
What is the future of Latin America?
When thinking about the making of a future, of an idea of futurity, we must think of what kind of historical lenses we shall employ. The future is inevitably tied to the past and it is defined by the present. The past has been created by ghosts that have determined the present; as specters they manifest in the present as agents of influence. Is there a productive mechanism to free ourselves from this kind of historical determination? What is the role of memory and history in this process? What is the role of artists in imagining a society of the future?
The Book
The Future Lasts Forever compiles newly commissioned essays and projects by a group of Latin American artists and thinkers, who have been assigned the task to reflect about “the future of Latin America.” Ideas conceived to challenge traditional expectations about what the future will bring. The texts and projects in this publication also attempt to transcend stereotypical representations of Latin America, to reflect about our relationship to historical narratives, and to recognize the importance of the actions carried through in the present
With contributions by: Alexander Apóstol, Beta-Local with Juan López Bauza and Luis Pérez, Giuseppe Campuzano, Carlos Capelán, Isabel García Pérez de Arce, Marianna Garín and Roberto Jacoby, Inti Guerrero, Runo Lagomarsino, Walter Mignolo, Carlos Motta, Mujeres Creando, Juan Velentini and Carla Zaccagnini.
Download a free PDF of the book here
www.gavlekonstcentrum.se/content/view/37/176/lang,en
The Exhibition
The Future Lasts Foreveris also an exhibition presented at Gävle Konstcentrum in Sweden (November 19, 2011– March 4, 2012), featuring works by Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Carlos Bunga, Mariana Castillo Deball, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Carlos Garaicoa, Antoni Muntadas, Adriana Lara and Wilfredo Prieto.
The Future Lasts Forever is published in collaboration between Iaspis and Gävle Konstcentrum. A series of lectures and workshops will take place during the winter 2011–2012.
More info here
Exhibition
Carlos Motta: Deus Pobre: Modern Sermons of Communal Lament, Y Gallery, NY
November 22-December 23
Y Gallery
165 Orchard Street
Tue-Sun: 12-6pm
DEUS POBRE: Modern Sermons of Communal Lament is a video installation based on a series of performative interventions in Catholic churches in Porto, Portugal. Six ordained priests —all of whom share an interest in the theology movement known as Liberation theology— read excerpts of key sermons and texts delivered by theologians and priests since the 17th Century.
Liberation theology emerged in the 1970s in Latin America —with developments in other parts of the world— where oppression, marginalization and vulnerability have determined the social landscape since the times of the Conquest. The movement focuses on the “dialogue between the Christian tradition, social theory, and the insight of the poor into their own situation, leading to action for change.”(1) Liberation theology underlines the political potential of the church’s mission and denounces instances when the church has been complicit with regimes of imperial and oppressive power.
Set in Portugal, DEUS POBRE, which translates as Impoverished God, revisits this particular history by asking contemporary priests to deliver, during their daily mass or for a public audience, theological-political sermons originally written byBartolomé de las Casas (1542), António Vieira (1653-57), Gustavo Gutiérrez(1971), Óscar Romero (1977-80),and Leonardo Boff (1996). Thus the priests engage with Portugal’s colonial history and the past role of the church in missionary evangelization, as well as with its current institutional role in a globalized and socially unequal world where the majority of its population lives in abject poverty.
