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Launch | Gender Talents at the New Museum, May 3, 2015
May 6, 2015
Join Carlos Motta to celebrate the launch of “Gender Talents,” a web-based project by Motta that engages movements and discourses for gender self-determination within trans and intersex communities internationally. The event will feature a screening of selected video portraits drawn from the project as well as a conversation with Motta, legendary author Kate Bornstein, intersex activist and sex therapist Tiger Devore, queer studies scholar Tavia Nyong’o, artist Tara Mateik, and Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement, New Museum.
“Gender Talents” features an online archive of video portraits of trans and intersex activists who thoughtfully perform gender as a personal, social, and political opportunity rather than as a social condemnation. Using in-depth interviews conducted with jogappa and trans communities in India, sex workers in Colombia and Guatemala, and intersex activists in the United States, “Gender Talents” documents the ways in which society conditions and regulates bodies and how gender activists build politics of resistance and action. Of specific concern is how individuals and organizations fight for state recognition, access to work and health benefits, and the right to self-determine their identities and self-govern their bodies, among other pressing issues.
“Gender Talents” is also an ongoing platform for physical events that reflect on alternative ways to think about the rigid nature of the gender binary as it is enforced in society.
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Symposium | Art Social, Change and the Urban Sphere, CCNY, March 26, 2015
March 6, 2015
Symposium | VISIBLE/INVISIBLE, New Museum, March 7, 2015
March 5, 2015
This daylong symposium questions how the legacy of identity politics might be reconsidered in light of our present culture, where making oneself visible is de rigueur and yet can also carry threatening connotations: being captured, tracked, or dangerously overexposed. Through a series of discussions with artists and curators who are renegotiating the identity politics of earlier generations, “VISIBLE/INVISIBLE” examines how the underlying goals of movements that demanded representation (both in art and in culture at large) remain urgent and yet require significant rethinking amid a transformed social and existential landscape. Invited speakers will provocatively consider how power is mapped and at the same time hijacked in society today—not just between centers and margins, but also between subcultures and across shifting alliances. In addition, they will reflect on and present arguments for and against identity politics, attempting to consider its accomplishments while simultaneously restating, refuting, or reconfiguring its terms in the present.
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Two person exhibition | Ornament, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, 22 February -22 March
February 19, 2015
Simon Preston Gallery is delighted to present Ornament, an exhibition of works by Amie Siegel and Carlos Motta, which will open to the public on Sunday, 22 February and run until 22 March, 2015.
Assembling two distinct projects, the exhibition creates anthropological divisions that evoke historical uncertainties and question the westernizing institutional lens and the cameras that document them. Unfolding through the witness of objects, each of the works chronicle alternative historical lineages, exploring both gender and sexuality. Drawing upon André Malraux’s proposition in ‘Musée Imaginaire’ – ‘The Imaginary Museum of World Sculpture’ that displaces the physical art object and the museum through the photographic image, alternative interpretations emerge.
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Group Exhibition | Canibalia, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, February 6 -26
January 28, 2015
Canibalia is a research around the notion and figure of the cannibal. The exhibition will entail a visual exploration on the anthropophagic subject, from where to (un)think cannibalism and the cannibal as spaces of dissidence, desire, community, ecology and exchange.
With Theodor de Bry, Jeleton, Runo Lagomarsino, Candice Lin, Pablo Marte, Carlos Motta, Pedro Neves Marques, Manuel Segade, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. Curated by Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga
Opening on February 6th, 2015 from 6 to 9pm. From February 6 to April, 26 2015
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Solo Exhibition | Carlos Motta: For Democracy There Must Be Love, Röda Sten Konsthall, January 24- March 22, 2015
January 9, 2015
Röda Sten Konsthall is proud to open the 2015 season with a large survey exhibition of artist Carlos Motta.
2015.01.24 – 2015.03.22
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Screening | Nefandus at SITAC XII, Saturday, January 24, 1:45pm
December 31, 2014
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Screening | Gender Talents at Theater Freiburg, Jan 22 – Feb 15
December 29, 2014
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Award | Carlos Motta wins the Main Prize of the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, 2014
December 8, 2014
Carlos Motta (Colombia) and Nástio Mosquito (Angola) shared the Main Prize of the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize that was announced by the international jury at the award ceremony in the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine on Dec 6, 2014. Artists will share the award of $100,000 ($60,000 in cash and $40,000 to be invested in the production of new works).
Future Generation Art Prize is the first global art prize for artists up to 35 founded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009 with the aim of acknowledging and giving long-term support to a future generation of artists wherever they live and work.
The winners were chosen by the respected international jury consisting of Francesco Bonami – Curator, Director of the 50th Biennale di Venezia (Italy); Jan Fabre – Artist (Belgium); Doris Salcedo – Artist (Colombia);Eckhard Schneider – General Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine); Bisi Silva – Independent curator, Director for the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (Nigeria); Adam Szymczyk – Artistic director of documenta 14 (Poland) and Philip Tinari – Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (China).
Carlos Motta and Nástio Mosquito, as the Winners of the Main Prize, both will present their solo shows in the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv in autumn 2015.
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Screening | “Nefandus” at Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, Cuba
November 26, 2014
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana
4-14 diciembre, 2014
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