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Solo Exhibition | Museum as Hub: Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently, May 16- September 9, 2012, New Museum
April 23, 2012
“Museum as Hub: Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently” is a multipart project that explores the idea of sexual and gender “difference” after four decades of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer, and Questioning politics. The exhibition draws from Motta’s database documentary wewhofeeldifferently.info that consists of a website, publication, online journal, and discursive events. Conceived as a platform to engage critical issues of contemporary queer culture, “We Who Feel Differently” features a video installation based on fifty interviews with LGBTIQQ academics, activists, artists, politicians, researchers, and radicals from Colombia, Norway, South Korea, and the United States, exploring notions of equality, difference, citizenship, and democracy. The interviews address the history and development of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer, and Questioning movements and experiences, proposing the notion of difference as a profound strategy for alliance building, solidarity, and self-determination.
We Who Feel Differently: Thursday Night Programs
5th Floor – Museum as Hub
Free
During the run of the exhibition, Motta invites local queer artists, activists, and academics to hold public events on select Thursday evenings in the Museum as Hub. Events include a conversation about transgender issues in contemporary art, a lecture on queer and feminist theologies, a workshop on HIV/AIDS activism today, a “cruising” walk, a presentation of a book about queer responses to gay inclusion in the military, and a collective reading of queer texts, all of which address critical issues of contemporary queer culture in the United States.
May 31: “Todd Shalom and Juan Betancurth: Sketchy Walk”
June 7: “Jeannine Tang and Reina Gossett: Love Revolution, Not State Collusion”
June 21: “Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars”
July 5: “QUEEROCRACY: 30 Years In, 30 Years Out: AIDS Activism Today”
July 12: “Jared Gilbert: Liberation Theologies for Secular Society”
July 19: “Carlos Motta and friends: Collective Reading”
About Museum as Hub
The Museum as Hub is a laboratory for art and ideas that supports activities and experimentation; explores artistic, curatorial, and institutional practice; and serves as an important resource for the public to learn about contemporary art from around the world. Both a network of relationships and an actual physical site located in the fifth-floor New Museum Education Center, Museum as Hub is conceived as a flexible, social space designed to engage audiences through multimedia workstations, exhibition areas, screenings, symposia, and events.
Symposium | We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium, May 4-5
March 30, 2012
New Museum, New York
We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium asks both what is at stake and what is made possible by embracing difference as a queer strategy within contemporary art, politics, and society. The two-day symposium was conceived by Performance Artist and Scholar Raegan Truax and Artist Carlos Motta and will be moderated by Ann Pellegrini, Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
FRIDAY MAY 4, 4pm-8pm
We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium begins Friday afternoon with a keynote lecture by Norwegian Trans Activist, Sexologist and Professor, Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad. Pirelli Benestad’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion organized with a lens toward gender and specifically in conversation with trans and intersex experiences, histories and movements. Performances by queer artists, including Malik Gaines, will follow the Friday panel.
4:00 – Welcome - Raegan Truax, Performance Artist and Scholar
4:15 – We Who Feel Differently: The Project - Carlos Motta, Artist
4:35 – We Who Feel Differently: The Symposium, Opening Remarks - Ann Pellegrini
5:00 – Keynote Lecture - Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, Trans Activist and Professor of Sexology, University of Agder, Norway
5:45 – Panel: Genderfull Lives, Genderfull Politics
- Reina Gossett, Community Organizer
- Tiger Howard Devore, Psychologist and Certified Sex Therapist
- Julian Carter, Associate Professor of Critical Studies, California College of the Arts
6:45 – Break
7:00 – Performance: Malik Gaines
7:45 – Closing Remarks - Ann Pellegrini and Raegan Truax
SATURDAY MAY 5, 12-4PM
On Saturday, the keynote lecture will be given José Esteban Muñoz, author of Cruising Utopia: The Politics and Performance of Queer Futurity (NYU Press, 2009) and Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 1999). Muñoz’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion that will engage questions of queer memory, art and politics. A moderated roundtable discussion between all of the symposium panelists, speakers, and attendees will conclude the event.
12:00 - Welcome and Opening Remarks - Carlos Motta & Raegan Truax
12:10 - Moderator Remarks - Ann Pellegrini
12:15 - Keynote Lecture - José Esteban Muñoz, Professor of Performance Studies, NYU
1:00 – Panel: Queering Difference: Memory, Art, and Politics
- Heather Love, Author of Feeling Backwards: Loss and the Politics of Queer History
- Mathias Danbolt, Editor of Trikster – Nordic Queer Journal
- Emily Roysdon, Artist
- E. Patrick Johnson, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African
American Studies, Northwestern University
2:30 – Moderated Roundtable, Symposium Presenters and Panelists
3:15 – Final Moderator Remarks, Ann Pellegrini
4:00 – Reception
Group Show | Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan, Opening April 27, 2012
March 29, 2012
Art Fair | Galeria Filomena Soares at the Armory Show, March 8-11
February 27, 2012
The Armory Show
PIER 94 – BOOTH 717
ÂNGELA FERREIRA | BRUNO PACHECO | CARLOS MOTTA | GHADA AMER | HELENA ALMEIDA | HERBERT BRANDL | IMI KNOEBEL | JEAN-MARC BUSTAMANTE | JOÃO PENALVA | JOSÉ PEDRO CROFT| PEDRO BARATEIRO | PETER ZIMMERMANN | REZA FARKHONDEH | RODRIGO OLIVEIRA | VASCO ARAÚJO
8 – 11.03.2012
Thursday – Saturday 10 am / 8 pm | Sunday 11am / 7 pm
Video Program | “Universal” at Arte Americas, Miami, March 3-5
February 26, 2012
Talk and Q&A | Petite Mort with Billy Miller at Leslie Lohman Gay and Lesbian Art Museum
February 26, 2012
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.
Group Exhibition | ÑEW YORK Latin American and Spanish artists in New York, Art Museum of the Americas, D.C
February 1, 2012
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
Symposium | SITAC X: The Future: The Long Count Begins Again, Feb. 9,10 and 11, Mexico City
January 12, 2012
Grant | Carlos Motta is named 2012 Creative Capital Grantee
January 12, 2012
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.”
More info here
Conversation | Bulletin Board, January 15, 6pm
January 12, 2012
