{"id":5703,"date":"2014-09-29T12:32:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T12:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T04:54:30","slug":"october-2-carlos-motta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2014\/09\/29\/october-2-carlos-motta\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2 &#8211; Carlos Motta: The Nefandus Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, October 2nd<\/strong>\u00a0| <em>Carlos Motta\u00a0in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5595\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/01\/Nefandus_1B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5595\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/01\/Nefandus_1B.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Nefandus (Carlos Motta, 2013). Courtesy of the artist.\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Nefandus (Carlos Motta, 2013). Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carlos Motta\u2019s practice draws upon various political histories in an attempt to articulate counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. Composed of the three films <em>Nefandus<\/em>, <em>Shipwreck (Naufragios)<\/em> and <em>The Defeated (La visi\u00f3n de los vencidos)<\/em> his 2013 <em>Nefandus Trilogy<\/em> is a haunting examination of pre-Hispanic homoeroticism and its brutal stigmatization during Europe\u2019s colonization of the Americas. Motta accompanies the trilogy with excerpts from his ongoing <em>Democracy Cycle<\/em>, including <em>We Who Feel Differently<\/em> (2011), a database documentary that addresses critical issues of contemporary queer culture, and <em>Gender Talents<\/em> (in-progress), a multiplatform documentary on international trans and intersex activism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>2011\u201314, Colombia\/Guatemala\/India\/Norway\/Portugal\/South Korea\/ USA, multiple formats, ca 60 min + discussion<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In English, Spanish, Kogi, Norwegian, and Korean with English subtitles<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Carlos Motta<\/strong>\u2019s (b. 1978, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia) work has been presented internationally in venues such as Tate Modern, London; New Museum, Guggenheim Museum, and MoMA\/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Museo de Arte del Banco de la Rep\u00fablica, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany; and Sala de Arte P\u00fablico Siqueiros, Mexico City. Motta is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2006), was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2008), and was short-listed for the PinchukArtCentre\u2019s Future Generation Prize (2014). He is a member of faculty at both Parsons the New School of Design and the School of Visual Arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2015\/05\/CATE_CarlosMotta_Notes2.pdf\">Carlos Motta Program Notes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 2nd\u00a0| Carlos Motta\u00a0in person! Carlos Motta\u2019s practice draws upon various political histories in an attempt to articulate counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. 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