MUSEUM AS HUB: CARLOS MOTTA
WE WHO FEEL DIFFERENTLY
curated by Eungie Joo
New Museum
235 Bowery - New York
16/5/2012 - 9/9/2012
“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. Through an exhibition, series of events, and an opening symposium, the project seeks to invigorate discussion around a queer “We” that looks beyond tolerance or assimilation toward a concept of equality that provides for greater personal freedom. The project draws from Motta’s evolving database documentary wewhofeeldifferently.info, which proposes “difference” as a profound mode of possibility for both solidarity and self-determination.
The exhibition features a video installation based on fifty interviews with an international and intergenerational group of LGBTIQQ academics, activists, artists, politicians, researchers, and radicals. Motta has identified five thematic threads from this research that address subjects ranging from activism to intimacy, art to immigration. Drawing upon early queer symbols and imagery, a series of new sculptures and prints situates narratives of the LGBTIQQ movement in dialogue with developments in art and history, while also considering their critical significance in contemporary queer discourse and culture at large. The design of the Museum as Hub by Carlos Motta and architect Daniel Greenfield—anchored by the installation of multicolored carpeting—gives the gallery an aesthetic and functional makeover that invites extended viewing and collective activity.
The exhibition is curated by Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs.
The “We Who Feel Differently” website and book were commissioned and published by Ctrl+Z Publishing and Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, with support from Fritt Ord, The Freedom of Expression Foundation, Oslo; Arts Council Norway; Bergen Kommune; and the New York State Council for the Arts.
WE WHO FEEL DIFFERENTLY
curated by Eungie Joo
New Museum
235 Bowery - New York
16/5/2012 - 9/9/2012
“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. Through an exhibition, series of events, and an opening symposium, the project seeks to invigorate discussion around a queer “We” that looks beyond tolerance or assimilation toward a concept of equality that provides for greater personal freedom. The project draws from Motta’s evolving database documentary wewhofeeldifferently.info, which proposes “difference” as a profound mode of possibility for both solidarity and self-determination.
The exhibition features a video installation based on fifty interviews with an international and intergenerational group of LGBTIQQ academics, activists, artists, politicians, researchers, and radicals. Motta has identified five thematic threads from this research that address subjects ranging from activism to intimacy, art to immigration. Drawing upon early queer symbols and imagery, a series of new sculptures and prints situates narratives of the LGBTIQQ movement in dialogue with developments in art and history, while also considering their critical significance in contemporary queer discourse and culture at large. The design of the Museum as Hub by Carlos Motta and architect Daniel Greenfield—anchored by the installation of multicolored carpeting—gives the gallery an aesthetic and functional makeover that invites extended viewing and collective activity.
The exhibition is curated by Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs.
The “We Who Feel Differently” website and book were commissioned and published by Ctrl+Z Publishing and Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, with support from Fritt Ord, The Freedom of Expression Foundation, Oslo; Arts Council Norway; Bergen Kommune; and the New York State Council for the Arts.
