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Talk | AA Bronson and Carlos Motta to Speak at Hyperallergic’s Wed Aug 21 ArtTalk
August 14, 2013
On Wednesday, August 21, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring artists AA Bronson and Carlos Motta at The Bedford in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The topic for that evening’s discussion and conversation is “The Body, Spirit, Sex, Community, Magic, and the Other,” which will be one of the focuses of the upcoming exhibition of AA Bronson’s work, The Temptation of AA Bronson, at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Workshop and Talk | Sex (Art) and the City, July 31-August 2, 2013
July 23, 2013
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Award | Carlos Motta wins best video award in LOOP 2013, Barcelona
May 28, 2013
CARLOS MOTTA was the winner of Catalonia Rambles Award 2013, with the video “Nefandus” (2013) announced the jury composed by by Valentijn Byvanck, Bartomeu Marí, Mark Nash and Dirk Snauwaert, aquisition award by Screen Project/Loop to lent for MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Spain.
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May 24, 2013
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Video premiére | LOOP Barcelona, May 23-25
March 28, 2013
Galeria Filomena Soares: Carlos Motta’s Nefandus, 2013
In Nefandus a man travels by canoe down the Don Diego river in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the Colombian Caribbean, a landscape of “wild” beauty. The man tells stories about pecados nefandos [unspeakable sins, abominable crimes]; acts of sodomy that took place in the Americas during the conquest. It has been documented that Spanish conquistadores used sex as a weapon of domination, but what is known about homoerotic pre-hispanic traditions? How did Christian morality, as taught by the Catholic missions and propagated through war during the Conquest, transform the natives’ relationship to sex? Nefandus attentively looks at the landscape, its movement and its sounds for clues of stories that remain untold and have been largely ignored and stigmatized in historical accounts.
Guest Editor | (im)practical (im)possibilities, e-flux journal # 44, April Issue
March 28, 2013
“(im)practical (im)possibilities” with essays by Gregg Bordowitz, Ryan Conrad and Sarah Schulman, Antke Engel and Renate Lorenz, Malik Gaines, Jack Halberstam, Nathan Lee, Miguel A. López,Beatriz Preciado, Virginia Solomon Greg Youmans. Edited by Carlos Motta
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Panel | “Youth,” part of IDEAS CITY Conference, May 2, 5-6:30pm
March 27, 2013
Youth
Youth is a vast global neighborhood replete with its own government, social networks, and modes of learning. Mentors and innovators discuss youth as Untapped Capital, focusing on the incredible capacity of today’s youth as innovators for change. Panelists: Naomi Hirabayashi, Barry McGee, Carlos Motta, and Ellin O’Leary; Moderator: Dennis Schol
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Lecture | Carlos Motta at Paul Branch Lecture Series, CalArts, LA, April 25, 6pm
March 27, 2013
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Art Fair | Y Gallery at PARC, Lima, Peru, April 24-28
March 27, 2013
Performative Symposium | Godfull: Shape Shifting God as Queer, Union Theological Seminary, April 12, 7pm
March 27, 2013
A performative symposium convened and moderated by artist Carlos Motta and minister Jared Gilbert
Participants: Lovett/Codagnone, Darnell L. Moore, Ernesto Pujol, Robert Sember, Samita Sinha, and Linn Tonstad
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Friday, April 12, 2013, 7:00–11:00pm
Admission is free but reservation is required.
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James Chapel/ Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway at 121st Street
New York, NY, 10027, USA
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The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary presents Godfull: Shape Shifting God as Queer, a performative symposium convened by artist Carlos Motta and minister Jared Gilbert featuring performative lectures and performances by a group of academics, activists, artists and theologians to explore the intersections of queer politics, spirituality and social justice.
The regulation of sexual activity is the primary system for controlling bodies within religions and the societies they influence. Such regulations often authorize violence against bodies as well as the depravation and social stratification of gender and sexual identities. As lesbians and gays have gained unprecedented visibility and in some cases legislative recognition, American faiths have by and large opened their doors to those homosexuals who manage to comply with institutionalized systems of social respectability. These faiths are now unwittingly complicit in new forms of heteronormative oppression.
Queer sexuality, bodies and activism form the ground from which queer art, spirituality and political narratives nurture new visions of a just society. At the same time queer communities remain in constant tension with these visions, always exploring the evolving and deviant backside of spiritual, political and social spaces.
Godfull: Shape Shifting God as Queer explores queerness as a constant force of disruption in theology and sexual politics. The participants speak of a “queerness” in theology that is particular and explicit of the queer body, a “queerness” that represents a constant pursuit of new social and spiritual revelations through deviant, subversive and indecent affirmations that will continue to challenge repressive notions of morality and respectability.
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Godfull: Shape Shifting God as Queer was commissioned by The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice and is a project initiated by Carlos Motta as part of his artist residency at the Institute in spring 2013.
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