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Group Exhibition | # 1 Cartagena—International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Feb. 7 – April 7
January 17, 2014

# 1 Cartagena—International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias
Curated by Berta Sichel with Bisi Silva, Barbara Krulik and Paul Willemsen
February 7 – April 7, 2014
Artists: Suzanne Anker, Eduardo Abaroa, Helena Almeida, Julieta Aranda, Maria Jose Arjona, Charles Atlas, Radcliffe Bailey, Rosa Barba, Perry Bard, Yto Barrada, Lothar Baumgarten, Terry Berkowitz, Janet Biggs, Anna Boghiguian, Francois Bucher, Trisha Brown, Fernando Bryce, Anna Camner, Peter Campus, Nuria Carrasco, Nick Cave, Willie Cole, Bill Culvert, Elena del Rivero, William Engelen, Nezaket Ekici, Richard Garet, Ximena Garrido-Leca, Justine Graham, Asta Gröting, Federico Guzman, Romuald Hazoume, Diango Hernandez, Kirsten Heshusius, Sheila Hicks, Maria Teresa Hincapie, Candida Höfer, Katie Holten, Shirazeh Houshiary, Satch Hoyt, Marine Hugonnier, Jesper Just, Clemencia Labin, Dana Levy, Ligorano/Reese, Christiane Löhr, Inés Lombardi, Oswaldo Maciá, Lucía Madriz, Marcellvs L., Jenny Marketou, Billy Martin, Julie Mehretu, Zwelethu Methethwa, Marta Minujín, Guillermo Mora, Carlos Motta, Beth Moyses, Maria Nepomuceno, Lorraine O’Grady, Emeka Ogboh, Uche Opka-Iroha, Kristin Oppenheim, Trevor Paglen, Guillermo Paneque, Periferica, João Penalva, Libia Posada, Freya Powell, Khalil Rabah, Jessica Rankin, Luis Fernando Ramirez, Alvaro Restrepo and El Colegio de Cuerpo, Steven Roden, Lotty Rosenfeld, Ruby Rumié, Eduardo Sarabia, Carlos Schwartz, Teresa Serrano, Hassan Sharif, Yinka Shonibare, Kimsooja, Philip Taaffe, Tallur L.N., Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Mickalene Thomas, Ana Torfs, Adán Vallecillo, Raúl Gómez Valverde, Sergio Vega, Anton Vidokle, Leo Villareal, Bill Viola, Stephen Vitiello, Gijs van Bon, Svetlin Velchev, Friedemann von Stockhausen, Pawl Wojtaski, Ming Wong, Betty Woodman, Yin Xiuzhen, Suda Yoshihiro, Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan.
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Group Exhibition | 7.000.000.000, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castellón, Spain, Jan. 31- April 27
January 17, 2014

7.000.000.000
Curated by David Arlandis and Javier Marroquí
Artists: ANETTA MONA, CHIŞA & LUCIA TKÁČOVÁ, BASURAMA, CARLOS MOTTA, DANIELA ORTIZ & XOSÉ QUIROGA, JOHAN GRIMONPREZ, JULIETA ARANDA & ANTON VIDOKLE, NÚRIA GÜELL, TUE GREENFORT, REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO, OLIVER RESSLER, OLIVER RESSLER & ZANNY BEGG, THE OTOLITH GROUP, URSULA BIEMANN
January 31- April 27, 2014.
Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain
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Group Exhibition | microacciones de emergencia # 2, adn platform, Barcelona, Jan. 25- April 30
January 17, 2014

microacciones de emergencia # 2 (Micro-actions of emergency#2)
Curated by de vuelta y vuelta (Inés Jover & Claudia Segura)
Artists: Sharon Hayes, Carlos Motta and Joaquín Segura
January 25- April 30, 2014. Opening: Saturday, January 25th at 12 noon.
adnplatform, Barcelona, Spain
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Film Festival | World Premiere of “Nefandus Trilogy” at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Jan. 24, 25 and 26
January 17, 2014

World Premiere of “Nefandus Trilogy” at International Film Festival Rotterdam— Tiger Award Competition for Short Films
January 24, 25 and 26
Stories and coloured historical reports on sexuality and sodomy in pre-colonial South America. The indigenous inhabitants were politically, religiously and sexually subjugated by their colonisers. Pecados nefandos or horrific sins were harshly punished. Untrammelled beauty versus a coercive sexual moralism. A stimulating, three-part visual essay: Nefandus, Naufragios and La visión los vencidos.
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Interview | Publication of an interview with Carlos Motta by Stephanie Kogler in Arara Issue # 11
December 16, 2013
Arara: Art and Architecture of the Americas, Issue 11, 2013
Arara is a free online journal dedicated to publishing research into the art and architecture of the Americas from all time periods. Arara is published once per year and is compiled and edited by postgraduate students of the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex.
Democracy Cycle— An Interview with Carlos Motta by Stephanie Kogler (PDF)
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Group Exhibition | global aCtIVISm at ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, Dec. 14- March 30
December 4, 2013

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Art Fair | Carlos Motta at UNTITLED, Miami with Y Gallery, Dec. 4-8, 2013
November 26, 2013

Panel Discussion | Oiticica-subterrânea, PINTA FORUM, PINTA NY, Nov 15, 4pm
November 14, 2013
Forum 2013
Pinta NY Public Program
curated by Miguel A. López | Gabriela Rangel
Friday, November 15, 2013 4:00 pm
Oiticica-subterrânea – moderated by Carlos Motta, artist living in New York.
Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica is considered among the most fascinating and innovative figures to have emerged in the postwar period of the 1960s and 1970s. A conversation between Víctor Manuel Rodríguez, curator and Art Historian, Bogota; and Irene Small, Art Historian and Archeologist, Princeton University, New Jersey, will explore issues on gender and the performative related to Oiticica’s radical propositions in his Parangoles and other works.
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Art Fair | Carlos Motta at PINTA VIDEO, PINTA NY, Nov 14-17
November 14, 2013

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Ritual | ritual of queer rituals, Witte de With, Rotterdam, November 2, 5:10pm
October 12, 2013

ritual of queer rituals, Witte de With, Rotterdam
convened by AA Bronson and Carlos Motta
with: Ron Athey (artist, London), AA Bronson (artist, Berlin and New York), François Chaignaud (choreographer, Paris), Carlos Motta (artist, New York), Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University, New York), Linn Tonstad (Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School, New Haven) and Sands Murray-Wassink (artist, Amsterdam).
2 November 2013 17:10
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