Publication
Artist project in ATLANTICA. Journal of Art and Thought # 53
Group Exhibition
Intersections, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
Intersections
February 10–May 23, 2013
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Group Exhibition
Without Reality There is No Utopia, YBCA, San Francisco
Without Reality There Is No Utopia
February 15–June 2, 2013
Alfredo Jaar, Artur Zmijewski, Carlos Motta, Chto Delat?, Ciprian Muresan, Daniel García Andujar, Dora García, Ed Hall, El Roto, Federico Guzmán, Fernando Bryce, Ignasi Aballí, Jan Peter Hammer, Judi Werthein, Katya Sander, Lene Berg, Manolo Quejido, Oliver Ressler, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Superflex, Wolfgang Tillmans, Zeina Maasri, and Zhou Xiaohu.
Without Reality There Is No Utopia was organized by the Centro Andaluz de Arte Conteporaneo in Seville, Spain; and curated by Alicia Murría, Mariano Navarro and Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes.
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Artist Residency
Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice, Spring 2013
The Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York announces Carlos Motta as artist in residency for Spring 2013.
Artist Talk
Carlos Motta and Marco Scotini, Arte Fiera Conversations, January 27, 2013
Centres and Peripheries: A Conversation with Carlos Motta and Marco Scotini, curated by Marco Scotini
Sunday, January 27, 5-6pm
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
Performance
The Movers, Tate Modern, February 2, 2013
The Movers is a performance conceived in collaboration between Carlos Motta and choreographer Matthias Sperling. The work attends to movement as a means of exploring the connections between collective politics and a sense of the individual. Based on a choreographic score of performative tasks that engage thirteen performers in individual decision-making processes, The Movers abstractly asks how self-determination is both a deeply personal project and continuously negotiated in relation to others.
Performers: Ingo Andersson—Wotever World, Jason Barker, Dan Daw, Simon Foxall, Liang Huai-Chih, Nia Hughes, Jamila Johnson Small, Roz Kaveney, Helka Kaski, Vicky Malin, Malinda Mukuma, Carlos Maria Romero and Mickel Smithen & Ebony Rose Dark.
Saturday Feb. 2, 2013
5 pm
Tate Modern, The Tanks
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Symposium
Gender Talents: A Special Address, Tate Modern, February 2, 2013
Gender Talents: A Special Address, convened by Carlos Motta, presents an international group of thinkers, activists, and artists in a symposium that uses the proposition or manifesto as a structuring device and starting point for discussion. These ‘special addresses’ will explore models and strategies that transform the ways in which society perversely defines and regulates bodies. The event seeks to ask what is at stake when collapsing, inverting or abandoning the gender binary. Here the relation between self-determination and solidarity in processes of systemic change form the foundation of a pragmatic, but also euphoric exploration of ways of being ungoverned by normative gender.
With Xabier Arakistain, Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, Giuseppe Campuzano, J. Jack Halberstam, Carlos Motta, Beatriz Preciado, Dean Spade, Terre Thaemlitz, Wu Tsang, Del LaGrace Volcano and Campbell X.
Saturday Feb. 2, 2013
10:30 am-4:30 pm
Tate Modern, The Tanks
Group Exhibition
Extranjero, Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain
Artists: Carolina Antich, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, and Carlos Motta
Curated by Sonia Becce
Panel Discussion
Conflict and the Rebel City, Dorsky Gallery, October 21, 2012
A Panel Discussion, 3-4:30pm
Moderated by Miguel Amado
with artists Carlos Motta, Sreshta Rit Premnath, and curator Chelsea Haines
From left: Ivory Tower by Carlos Motta, I Will Die When I Stop Building by Sreshta Rit Premnat
Group Exhibition
From Below, as a Neighbour, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia
25 October - 6 November
'Mine, Yours, Ours', Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia
Babi Badalov, BADco., Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten, Kajsa Dahlberg, Öyvind Fahlström, Mark Leckey, Jennie Livingston, Carlos Motta, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Želimir Žilnik
From Below, as a Neighbour turns to the fragile institution: strategic detachments practised within temporary spaces of agency and relief. The exhibition forms the latest chapter in an ongoing exploration of utopian thought and practice extending from the first 'Summit of Micronations', a congress for new country projects held in Helsinki in 2003.
Taking this model as a point of departure, From Below, as a Neighbour seeks to radically expand on the micronation as a form of self-organisation, to explore alternative approaches that subvert and destabilize normative structures. In the works, the desire to produce forms of knowledge that also displace the knowledge itself, is present both as a practice and fantasy of shared autonomy. It is a take on utopia that emphasises the role of tenderness in collective politics, as a politics based not on the possibility that we might be reconciled, but on a continuous and nervous tension between self-determination and solidarity.
From Below, as a Neighbour, brings together a site-specific installation by Zagreb-based performance collective BADco.; an Armin Maiwald film realised as part of his long-running series Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten or 'Library of Factual Stories'; Öyvind Fahlström's choreographed street parade, Mao-Hope March; and Kajsa Dahlberg's exploration of the potential of representational invisibility. Also included is visual poetry and collages by Babi Badalov; We Who Feel Differently, a series of prints by Carlos Motta; Mark Leckey's Fiorucci Made me Hardcore; as well as work by pioneering Black Wave filmmaker and activist Želimir Žilnik.
Pil and Galia Kollectiv's contribution, part film, part performanceTerminal takes the form of a future morality play, one which turns to dystopia as a ritual and excercise, and premieres on 26 October at HKD Teatar.
Accompanying the exhibition are cinema screenings of Jennie Livingston's1990 documentary film Paris is Burning at Art Kino Croatia.
From Below as a Neighbour is curated by Fatima Hellberg (Electra) and realised as part of Practical Utopias, an ongoing collaboration betweenYKON (Finland), Electra (UK) and Drugo More (Croatia).
The exhibition and performance programme takes place within the framework of the 'Mine, Yours, Ours' festival, Drugo More, with the support of the British Council, Croatia; Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia; and the City of Rijeka.
Image credit: Achterbahn, Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten, 1992, courtesy of WDR mediagroup dialog GmbH
