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Marina Abramović Institute Takeover

Sep 132023

4 –⁠ 8 Oct, 2023 (various times)

The performances use the entirety of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and is self-led, letting you explore all parts of the building, including the auditorium, Purcell Room, backstage dressing rooms, green rooms, technical spaces and foyer.

The artists have all been invited to make site-specific, long-durational work. They engage with endurance, presence and participation, creating an infinite possibility of encounters between visitors and artists.

The artists featured are Collective Absentia, Carla Adra, Cassils, Paula Garcia, Miles Greenberg, Sandra Johnston, Carlos Martiel, Yiannis Pappas, Paul Setúbal, Aleksandar Timotic and Despina Zacharopoulou.

Marina Abramović is participating on Wednesday 4 October and Sunday 8 October (session one) and is also present at various other times during the takeover.

Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) presents and supports performance art at a global scale. Through an artist-driven process, the institute maintains both a multidisciplinary approach to performance and a focus on long-durational work.

MAI aims to address the complexity of the present time in order to shift awareness and consciousness of human beings through performance. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between practitioners of all disciplines, including art, science, technology, and spirituality.

In 2023, MAI opened its space in Karyes, Greece to support creative processes around performance art and generate collaborative thinking. The institute hosts Cleaning the House, a workshop developed by Abramović to reset the body and help understand one’s physical or mental limits. The workshops are open to public participants coming from any discipline.

Globally, the institute creates communal participatory projects that critically engage with time, place, and human experiences. MAI has presented major performance projects in Sao Paulo (2015), Athens (2016), Kyiv (2017), Bangkok (2018), Istanbul (2020) and Amsterdam (2022).

Marina Abramović Institute is: Marina Abramović, Thanos Argyropoulos, Serge Le Borgne, Paula Garcia, Billy Zhao

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Southbank Centre | Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.

CARLOS MARTIEL WINS MUSEO DEL BARRIO’S INAUGURAL MAESTRO DOBEL LATINX ART PRIZE

Sep 132023

New York’s Museo del Barrio and Mexican tequila brand Maestro Dobel have announced Havana-born installation and performance artist Carlos Martiel as the first winner of the newly established Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize. Martiel, who is based in Harlem, will receive a $50,000 grant and a solo exhibition of his work, to take place in El Museo del Barrio’s multidisciplinary space Room 110 in the spring of 2024. The prize, which is to be awarded biannually, is aimed at elevating the work of Latinx artists, who have been historically underrepresented in the art world, despite the fact that 62 million US citizens, or nearly 19 percent of the country’s population, are of Hispanic descent according to the 2020 US census.

“On behalf of our jury, I am delighted to announce Carlos Martiel as the recipient of the 2023 Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize,” said Patrick Charpenel, executive director of El Museo del Barrio, in a statement. “Martiel’s work beautifully explores the complexity and nuance of racism and racialization, gender, immigration, and the legacy of colonialism in the Americas. We are grateful for our partnership with Maestro Dobel Tequila, who shares our commitment to supporting Latinx artists in the United States.”

Martiel is known for durational performance works exploring issues of racism, systems of oppression, and violence targeting people of color. A number of these works find him testing the limits of his own body, which he sometimes binds with ropes or chains, against which he then strains. His work has appeared in the 2019 Sharjah Biennial, the 2017 Venice Biennale, and several iterations of the Havana Biennial.

“I am honored to have been selected as the inaugural winner of the Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize, an award that celebrates my community and stresses the crucial role of Latinx art in the creative world,” said Martiel in a statement. “Through this prize, I am looking forward to producing new work that will continue to drive conversations on subjects that matter and shine a light on the importance of representation.”

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Verbo 2023

Jun 282023

17ª Mostra de Performance Arte

A Verbo 2023 acontecerá nos dias 19, 20 e 21 de julho, no Chão SLZ (São Luís, MA), nos dias 27, 28, 29 e 30 de julho, na Pinacoteca do Ceará (Fortaleza, CE), e nos dias 9, 10, 11 de agosto, na Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo, SP).

A seleção de projetos ficou a cargo de Carolina Vieira (Pinacoteca do Ceará), Samantha Moreira (Chão SLZ), e de Marcos Gallon (Galeria Vermelho).

O recorte curatorial da Verbo foi criado a partir da leitura das 300 propostas recebidas de várias regiões do país e do mundo, num total de 10 países. Além dos projetos selecionados por meio do edital, a Verbo 2023 contará também com artistas convidados, totalizando 31 ações.

Cada cidade receberá um programa distinto, com exceção do eixo de ações criadas para câmeras de vídeo cujo programa será apresentado integralmente nas três cidades.

Nova parceria da Verbo, a Pinacoteca do Ceará, instituição recentemente inaugurada em Fortaleza, abrigará todo o programa, e incluirá também uma oficina de textos curatoriais coordenada pela pesquisadora cearense Érica Zíngano.

Lista de artistas selecionados por meio de edital:

Andrea Hygino e Artur Souza (Rio de Janeiro), Carchíris Barcelos (Paço do Lumiar), Carolina Cony Rosa (Rio de Janeiro), Charlene Sales Bicalho (Nova Era), Daniel Faguz (São Paulo), Eduardo Hargreaves (Tiradentes), Fabiana Amelio Faleiros (São Paulo), Felipe Teixeira e Mariana Molinos (São Paulo), Galia Eibenschutz (Cidade do México), Génova Alvarado (Serra Grande), Lucas Antonio Bebiano (Ibiúna), Lucimélia Romão (São Félix), No Barraco da Constância tem! (Fortaleza), Renan Marcondes (São Paulo), Ruy Cézar Campos (Fortaleza), Ting-tong Chang (Taipei), Sy Gomes (Eusébio), Thiago Sogayar Bechara (São Paulo), Ton Bezerra (São Luís).

Lista de artistas convidados:

Boris Nikitin (Basileia), Carlos Martiel (Nova York), Dinho Araújo (São Luís), Eduardo Bruno e Waldirio Castro (Fortaleza), Elilson (Recife), Guilherme Peters (São Paulo), Isadora Ravena (Fortaleza), Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (Copenhage), Pablo Assumpção (Fortaleza), Tania Candiani (Cidade do México), Yuri Firmeza (Fortaleza).

A Verbo é um evento sem fins lucrativos, criado, produzido e gerido pela Vermelho desde 2005.

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Lo que es, es lo que ha sido / What It Is, Is What Has Been: Selecciones de la Colección de arte cubano de ASU Art Museum

Jun 282023

05/06/2023 to 09/17/2023
Localizado en Steele Gallery

Lo que es, es lo que ha sido/What It Is, Is What Has Been: Selecciones de la Colección de arte cubano de ASU Art Museum explora la expresión artística en tiempos de crisis humanitaria y agitación social. La exposición es la primera colaboración curatorial significativa entre Phoenix Art Museum y Arizona State University Art Museum (ASU Art Museum) en más de una década y se basa en la colección de arte cubano contemporáneo de ASU Art Museum para brindar un contexto más profundo a la presentación simultánea de PhxArt de la exposición de compromiso especial Juan Francisco Elso: Por América, proyecto organizado por El Museo del Barrio en la ciudad de Nueva York.

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Phoenix Art Museum | 1625 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004

AMIGXS Radicales

Jun 282023

On View through June 24 – July 23, 2023, Open weekly from 11 AM-7 PM
Gallery Reception with Artists: Saturday, July 1, 2023, 4-7 PM

Curated by Sofía Reeser del Rio

With Participating Artists & Collectives: Camilo Godoy, Las Mariquitas, Carlos Martiel, Jorge Sánchez, Salsa Soul Sisters, and The Antonio Archives.

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The Clemente | 107 Suffolk Stree, New York, NY, 10002

Performance “Posesión”

Feb 142023

15 de fevereiro, às 15h.

A performance Posesión será apresentada pelo artista Carlos Martiel no próximo dia 15 (quarta-feira), 15h no Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia. Na performance proposta pelo artista cubano Carlos Martiel, as questões de classe e raça serão abordadas dentro de uma interpretação sobre o corpo negro, que continua a serviço da sociedade e historicamente tem origem no modelo escravocrata dito “abolido”.

Esse é um trabalho que reflete sobre a experiência dos corpos negros no contexto brasileiro. Uma experiência tristemente ligada a um movimento de redução e exclusão de direitos para a população negra. Em Possessão, Martiel fala do corpo negro como aquele que continua cativo, possuido pelo sistema classista e racista, que mimetiza a mesma práxis perversa de outrora. Ao mesmo tempo o artista ilumina a riqueza e beleza ancestral e a contribuição cultural desse povo subjugado, bem como à capacidade de resiliência e resistência.

Possuídos pela estrutura social que os mantém sem voz, sem acessos e com pouca ou nenhuma reparação a depender da geografia. Corpos que lutam na rotina do dia a dia pela preservação de vivências e memórias diaspóricas para nutrir a sua força.

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Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia | Av. Lafayete Coutinho, s/n – Comercio, Salvador – BA,

Exposition collective « Hado. Les pouvoirs empruntés de l’eau »

Jan 062023

9 janvier – 4 février 2023 – Galeries André Arsenec & La Véranda

Commissariat Olivia Maëlle Breleur

Artists: Jean-François Boclé, Ernest Breleur, Stephanie Brossard, Thierry Fontaine, Séphora Joannes, Valérie John, Shivay La Multiple, Mirtho Linguet, Louisa Marajo, Carlos Martiel, Myriam Mihindou, Gabriel Moraes Aquino, Borgial Nienguet-Roger, jérémie priam, Tabita Rezaire, Fannie Sosa.

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Tropiques-Atrium | 6 Rue Jacques Cazotte, Fort-de-France 97200, Martinica

Arquitectura para un cuerpo

Sep 232022

October 7, 6 – 8 pm.

Please join artist Carlos Martiel for the premier of his durational performance, Arquitectura para un cuerpo (2022). This work is a site-specific response to the history of Western museums, their relationships to imperial expansion, and their history in objectifying and displaying human subjects and artworks from colonized and racialized nations.

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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | 600 Museum Way, Bentonville, AR, 72712.

PESO

Sep 192022

October 1–29, 2022

Steve Turner is pleased to present Peso, the gallery’s fourth solo exhibition by Carlos Martiel. The exhibition will feature recent works which encompass photography, video, sculpture, drawing, installation and performance. For the first time, Martiel has created performance works expressly for the video format, something that he intends to pursue more in the future. While each work is visually distinct from the others, all bear Martiel’s unmistakable vocabulary in which his bodily presence, that of a queer Afro-Latino man, is highlighted within a context of cultural violence. As suggested by the exhibition’s title, each work conveys conflicting interactions with weight. In some, a heavy object is carried or dragged by Martiel; in one, Martiel’s body is the weight that requires the support of others, and in another, a once light American flag is weighed down by the density of dry blood. According to Martiel, “weight is more than mere gravity holding our bodies down; it is the incontrovertible force that binds, traverses and crushes our flesh into submission, alienation or dependency. It exists in our public monuments, in corpses hanging from trees, in shackles and in banners. It exists in our history and it is present in 2022.”

During the exhibition’s opening on October 1, 2022, Martiel will perform his durational piece Time for the first time. The performance will be recorded and presented as a video during the run of the exhibition.

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Steve Turner | 6830 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90038

Animating Memory: Affective Touch & Corporeality in the Work of Camilo Godoy and Carlos Martiel

Sep 022022

By Clara Maria Apostolatos for The Latinx Project

To visual artist Carlos Martiel, recording performance art is much like creating an archive.

“I consider my performance art like an archive in itself, in terms of its documentation. The photographic and video documentation becomes registered like an archive of the times I am living through, as well as an archive of the problems of the times I have had to live.”¹

In drawing out the relationship between archival and performance practices, Martiel invites us to consider how performances become transferred into tangible records of the artist’s creative practice as well as their political moment. And while Martiel here speaks of archiving performances, his close friend and visual artist Camilo Godoy is more interested in performing archives and the information disclosed in them.

“We can create new histories through performance, especially when considering the violence of history. There are so many events that have not been documented by photographs or video but live from accounts of oral histories—of people talking and describing what they experienced. To me, performance is a device that allows us to examine something that is never seen but maybe read about or heard from.”²

Together, the work of artists Camilo Godoy and Carlos Martiel capture the immediacy of generating and reanimating collective memory. Evoking the interrogative forms of the counter-archive, Godoy and Martiel question and disrupt conventional narratives of the historically disenfranchised, among them the Latinx and queer community. Rather than present objective or official views of history, the artists draw upon personal memory and cultural heritage to offer subjective and contingent reports of history. The artists enact critical interrogations and revivals of past narratives through aesthetic strategies I heuristically describe here as affective touch and corporeality.

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