Group Exhibition | Contested Territories, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City
September 5, 2012
News
Award | Carlos Motta Awarded Kindle Project’s 2012 Makers Muse Award
August 30, 2012
• JIBZ CAMERON • MIRANDA JULY • JOSH MACPHEE • CARLOS MOTTA •NOVA RUTH • MARJANE SATRAPI • FARDIN WAEZI •
It’s almost fall again, and with the season comes year four of the Makers Muse Award. We’ve spent the last year trawling the Internet, our cinemas, galleries, memory-banks, and libraries for the inventive and bizarre. While some have captivated us for years, others are new fascinations; this year’s recipients epitomize the awesome and the valorous.
Through the use of video, graphic novels, performance, writing, installation, web projects, design, archiving, music, and photography, the 2012 awardees all have a profoundly interdisciplinary edge to them. Tackling issues from justice to sexuality, uprisings to economy, these individuals will surely galvanize and provoke you.
Coming from the US, Afghanistan, Iran, and Indonesia we present to you the 2012 Makers Muse Award recipients.
http://www.kindleproject.org/blog/2012/08/30/announcement-of-2012-makers-muse-recipients/
Artist Talk | Algunos apuntes sobre las políticas del afecto queer, Lugar a dudas, Cali, August 9
August 10, 2012
Book Launch | Nosotros que sentimos diferente, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá, August 9
July 31, 2012
Lecture and Screening | Carlos Motta “We Who Feel Differently at Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, July 17
July 9, 2012
Symposium | Digital Art & Democracy at University of California Santa Cruz, June 1
May 23, 2012
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 with Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas: Love Revolution, Not State Collusion”
June 21: “Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars”
July 12: “Jared Gilbert: Liberation Theologies for Secular Society”
July 19: “QUEEROCRACY: 30 Years In, 30 Years Out: AIDS Activism Today”
August 23: Other Arrangements: An Evening of Screenings Selected by Frédéric Moffet
September 6: “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
Thursday – Saturday 10 am / 8 pm | Sunday 11am / 7 pm
