Review
Gender Talents: A Special Address by Ellen Feiss, Frieze Blog, March 4, 2013
"The ‘special’ mode of address offered by this symposium was acutely aware of its setting. Curated by Tate Film and Electra Productions and convened by the artist Carlos Motta, ‘Gender Talents’ was held in Tate Modern’s Tanks, that subterranean domain of the museum reserved for its most subversive offerings. The event itself was a one day conference as part of the series ‘Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness’ and was held in an installation by Motta, with speaker’s platforms and a foundation designed for seated panel discussion reminiscent of the environment he created for his 2011 exhibition ‘We Who Feel Differently’, at the New Museum. The audience was seated tightly around a central stage, with the darkened walls at the periphery of the room providing space for projections during each presentation. Somewhere between a TV studio (the dramatic lighting of The Weakest Link came to mind) and a TED Talk, emphasized by the participants’ headsets, the tightly curated scene of the symposium plainly addressed the construction of all public forums of knowledge exchange. This highlighted what would be one of the main considerations of the occasion: the tension between critical speech and its institutional framework..."
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Group Exhibition
Ideas y Presupuestos, jugada a 3 bandas, Galería Liebre, Madrid
Abril 4 - Mayo 25, 2013
"Ideas y presupuestos" es una exposición en la que se presentan, sin más, ideas de artistas y presupuestos para su realización. En la galería se exponen textos exlicando la idea y documentos en excel con el presupuesto para su producción. Los compradores adquieren el derecho a producir una obra de arte. Dos momentos, dos definiciones, dos situaciones en las que visualizar obras de arte: La idea y el presupuesto.
Artistas: Sebastian Beyro, Black Tulip, Bonus extra, Kalle Brolin, Chefer, Priscila Fernandes, Sandra Paula Fernández, Ana García Pineda, Luis Perez Calvo, Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum, Laramascoto, Connie Mendoza, Carlos Motta, Carl Palm, Pepo Salazar, Guillem Juan Sancho, YES. Comisario: Martí Manen.
Publication
Artist project in ATLANTICA. Journal of Art and Thought # 53
Group Exhibition
Intersections, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
Intersections
February 10–May 23, 2013
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Group Exhibition
Without Reality There is No Utopia, YBCA, San Francisco
Without Reality There Is No Utopia
February 15–June 2, 2013
Alfredo Jaar, Artur Zmijewski, Carlos Motta, Chto Delat?, Ciprian Muresan, Daniel García Andujar, Dora García, Ed Hall, El Roto, Federico Guzmán, Fernando Bryce, Ignasi Aballí, Jan Peter Hammer, Judi Werthein, Katya Sander, Lene Berg, Manolo Quejido, Oliver Ressler, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Superflex, Wolfgang Tillmans, Zeina Maasri, and Zhou Xiaohu.
Without Reality There Is No Utopia was organized by the Centro Andaluz de Arte Conteporaneo in Seville, Spain; and curated by Alicia Murría, Mariano Navarro and Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes.
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Artist Residency
Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, Spring 2013
The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York announces Carlos Motta as artist in residency for Spring 2013.
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
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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
