Carlos Motta invites Chitra Ganesh, Andrea Geyer, Ryan Inouye, Thomas Lax, and Alex Segade to read passages from their favorite texts that have shaped
contemporary queer culture.
Not exact matches
Over the past seven years, his work at ONE has sought to draw greater scholarly and public attention to under recognized histories of
queer art and
culture while connecting
contemporary artists to the archives» rich, yet largely unexplored, collections.
He works on issues of performance and performativity in the
contemporary visual arts, as well as on
queer theory,
queer cultures and their histories.
In February, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture in Harlem, Dr. Jordana Saggese, Kim Drew, Dr. David Clinton Wills and Juliana Huxtable were part a symposium titled «Basquiat and
Contemporary Queer Art,» focusing on Jean - Michel Basquiat as a symbol of black genius.
Aiming to widen the representation of the horse and its various contexts and
cultures, the exhibition curator, Sophie Mörner, in collaboration with Fotografiska, has brought together some 100 works in order to highlight issues of the
contemporary role of the horse, all in a multi-dimensional presentation in which photographers,
queer theoreticians and horse nerds will all find something of interest.
David appropriates elements from modernist design and
contemporary culture in order to deal with issues of identity,
queer politics, and complex emotional states.
He has shown recently at The Kinsey Institute (2013), Roots and
Culture Contemporary Art Center (2014) and curated The Great Refusal, a citywide series of exhibitions and events dealing with
queer identities in Chicago.
Motta also guest edited the e-flux journal April issue, «(im) practical (im) possibilities» on
contemporary queer art and
culture.
Her work has shown at venues including PULSE NYC Special Projects, BRIC Media Arts, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen, Wayfarer's Gallery and Eyebeam in New York; Chicago Cultural Center, Mana
Contemporary, Weinberg / Newton Gallery, Roots &
Culture, and the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago; Art F City's FAGallery in Miami, FL; The Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, TX; Salt Institute in Portland, ME; The Dah Theater Research Center in Belgrade, Serbia; ICA Baltimore, and Athens Museum of
Queer Arts, Athens, Greece.