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Panel Discussion | The Gay Generation Gap, Dixon Place, New York
September 30, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011, 5 pm
Featuring Ira Sachs and Carlos Motta
To accompany his new show thirtynothing (running throughout October), performance artist Dan Fishback curates a month-long series of events about the legacy of AIDS on queer art and culture. Topics include the gay generation gap, the intersection of gentrification and AIDS, and the films of gay photographer Mark Morrisroe. Fishback will also create an art installation made of ephemera from the lives and careers of gay artists, writers, and performers who died of AIDS.
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Book Launch | LAXART, September 29, 7:30pm, Los Angeles
September 12, 2011
LA><ART is pleased to host a reception for artist Carlos Motta, whose two new collaborative book projects address the social, political, and sexual dynamics of queer affection. Motta will discuss these projects, followed by short readings from the texts by Motta, Alex Segade, Wu Tsang and others special guests. The two books, We Who Feel Differently and Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public, which both include contributions from leading artists and thinkers, will be made available at LA><ART.
LA><ART is located at 2640 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034
Artist Talk | Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently at Pomona Museum of Art, Los Angeles
September 7, 2011
September 26, 7-9pm
Carlos Motta will discuss his most recent project We Who Feel Differently, a database documentary that addresses the politics of sexual difference and other critical issues of contemporary queer culture. We Who Feel Differently attempts to reclaim a queer “We” that values difference over sameness, a “We” that resists assimilation, and a “We” that embraces difference as a critical opportunity to construct a socially just world.
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Group Exhibiton | e-flux’s Pawnshop at Thessaloniki Biennial
September 7, 2011
18 September–18 November, 2011
Originally established by artists Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle in New York in 2008, PAWNSHOP went bankrupt at the beginning of the world financial crises, only to re-open successfully in Beijing and, most recently, at Art Basel.
Structurally, a pawnshop is a short-term loan business, which retains a collateral object (a camera, a ring, a guitar, a gun, and in this case an artwork) in exchange for a cash loan—a small fraction of the object’s value that needs to be repaid with interest within a one-month period. If the owner of the pawned object does not return to collect it and repay the loan + interest within 30 days, the pawnbroker has the right to sell it. What is of particular interest in pawnshops is the peculiar mixture of the illicit and the desperate, futurity and anticipation. The idea that the object is collateral for cash that might be traded back for the object during a set duration, could be put in other words, that works of art and money are just dancing in a choreography in which they might just circle back and meet again, and cancel each other out, but in fact rarely do. All profits from PAWNSHOP have been donated to Doctors Without Borders.
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Book Launch and Performances Series | Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public at Forever & Today, Inc., New York
September 6, 2011
September 17–25, 2011. Book Launch: September 17, 6-9pm
Carlos Motta and Joshua Lubin-Levy’s book, Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public assembles drawings from memory of spaces in New York City where a public sexual encounter occurred, and presents contributions from an intergenerational group of over 60 gay men.Conceived as an atlas of queer affection, Petite Mort proposes a subjective blueprint of the city, one that values not simply the space “as is,” but how it has been performed and engaged, highlighting the fundamental connection between public space and queer life.
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Online Group Exhibition | InSite: Art + Commemoration – Ideas, LMCC, New York
September 1, 2011
September 1- October 11, 2011
As Lower Manhattan’s future continues to be rebuilt and re-imagined, LMCC invited artists to contribute to the InSite 9/11 program. They were invited to respond in the form of an observation, interpretation, or idea, which will be shared as part of an online project to inform thinking about Lower Manhattan’s past, present and future.
Double A Projects: Athena Robles and Anna Stein, Andrea Geyer, Takashi Horisaki, Yoko Inoue, Matthew Jensen, Jill Magid, Mary Mattingly, Carlos Motta and Christopher Robbins.
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Group Exhibiton | ¡Patria o Libertad! On Patriotism, Immigration and Populism, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
September 1, 2011
September 9- October 30, 2011
As a consequence of immigration, globalisation and economic recession, patriotism is on the rise around the world. How we deal with love of country and nationalism is an important challenge of our time.¡Patria o Libertad! presents video works by 22 international artists, all investigating the diverse forms that patriotism embodies.
Adel Abidin, ANTUAN, Maja Bajevic, Marc Bijl, Alexander Apóstol, Iván Candeo, Emilio Chapela, DEMOCRACIA, Jen DeNike, Nezaket Ekici, Karlo Ibarra, Kaoru Katayama, Elena Kovylina, Carlos Motta, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay & Pascal Lièvre, Johanna Reich, Krisdy Shindler, Shahzia Sikander, Santiago Sierra, José Angel Toirac and Katri Walker. Curated by Paco Barragán.
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Two-Person Exhibition | Normativo: Carlos Motta and LTTR at Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
August 6, 2011
August 6 – September 25, 2011
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New Book | NETWORKS edited by xtine burroughs published by Routledge
July 7, 2011
NETWORKS: Case Studies in Web Art and Design edited by xtine burroughs “offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media.” Published by Routledge.
Contributions by Peter Baldes, David M. Berry, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Critical Art Ensemble, Beatriz da Costa, Joseph DeLappe, Micheal Demers, Eva Díaz, Constant Dullaart, Amy Franceschini, Freckles Studio, Christian Fuchs, Ken Goldgerg, Stamatina Gregory, Ethan Ham, Marc Horowitz, Steve Lambert, David Lu, Conor McGarrigle, Michael Mandiberg, Myriel Milicevic, Carlos Motta, Eduardo Navas, Robert Nideffer, Mark Nunes, Paolo Pedercini, Christian Marc Schmidt, Trebor Scholz, Edward A. Shanken, Brooke Singer, Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, and Lee Walton.
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Group Exhibition | Multiple, Limited, Unique at The Center for Books Arts, New York
July 6, 2011
July 6, 2011 – September 10, 2011
The Center for Book Arts has been involved in a Collections Initiative, which involves the in-depth cataloguing and preservation of our extensive collection of artist books, prints, catalogues, and ephemera. This exhibition marks the culmination of the three-year Collections Initiative. The exhibition will offer an overview of the history and development of book arts over the past 40 years, and examine the role of the institution in both nurturing and promoting innovative artists and preserving traditional artistic practices.
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