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An unsettled gaze. Zoe Leonard’s “Al río” at Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. “In Mojave thinking, body and land are the same. The words are separated only by the letters ‘ii and ‘a: ‘iimat for body, ‘amat for land. In conversation, we often use a shortened form for each: mat-. Unless you know the context of a conversation, you might not know if we are speaking about our body or our land. You might not know which has been injured, which is remembering, which is alive, which was dreamed, which needs care. You might not know we mean both.” —Natalie Diaz, “The First Water Is the Body” #zoeleonard @ndinn @caitlincollinsmurray @chinatifoundation

Charlie Atlas forever changed how we capture and imagine movement. In the words of @hilton.als, “There’s never been a period when I haven’t felt buoyed by Charlie’s various creations—and, as the best movies do, his work reflects the times when, for the most part, artists had more of a D.I.Y. aesthetic. In fact, looking back, I can see now that the performers Charlie seemed most drawn to were people who created themselves out of thin air—they followed no precedent.“ Charlie is having a long overdue survey @icaboston through March 25, may this be just the beginning. #charlesatlas 🧡

Steina Vasulka @mitlistarts @abellanatalie 📺⚡️🪩 #steinavasulka

Scott Burton @pulitzerarts 🥲 #scottburton

New on View at MoMA —> Gallery 209: 500 Years In 1992, the K’iche’ Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She called it “one of the greatest conquests in the struggle for peace, for human rights, and for the rights of the Indigenous people, who, for five hundred years, have been split, fragmented, as well as the victims of genocides, repression, and discrimination.” Her carefully chosen words came just days after the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. Like Menchú, the artists in this gallery have worked to address legacies of colonialism in the Americas. Some use traditional Indigenous iconography to engage histories of resistance, or performative tactics to critique and counter stereotypes. Others promote solidarity across the Americas, imagining forms of unity through shared experience. Together, the works here shed light on the cultural debates of 1992 and on the artists and activists who worked to upend the celebratory narratives of conquest that marked this contentious anniversary. - Juan Francisco Elso, Bird that Flies over America, 1985 - José Alejandro Restrepo, Paso del Quindío I (Quindío Pass I), 1992 - Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, The Conquest of America, 1989 - Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia, The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey, 1993 - Beatriz González, Entreguerras (Between Wars), 1992 - Coco Fusco, The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012 - Poster for Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Gautinaui World Tour, 1992 - Jaune Quick-to-see Smith, Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World, 1991 - Antonio Caro, Homenaje a Manuel Quintín Lame (Tribute to Manuel Quintín Lame), 1993 - Mailer announcing Tribal Identity: An Installation by James Luna, 1995, and brochure for the James Luna exhibition New Basket Designs: No Directions Known, 1993 Organized by Beverly Adams and Inés Katzenstein with Julia Detchon, Abby Hermosilla, and Damasia Lacroze @themuseumofmodernart @jbird7210 @abbyhermosilla_

This show! 💙💜🖤 Deepest love for Lanka Tattersall and the birth of Vital Signs: Artists and the Body at MoMA. 1. Forrest Bess and Rosemary Mayer 2. Lanka Tattersall and Marilyn Nance with Valerie Maynard 3. Charles Gaines and Alina Szapocznikow 4. Bhupen Khakhar and Lynda Benglis 5. Wanda Pimentel 6. Greer Lankton 7. Geta Brătescu, Nancy Graves, and Harmony Hammond 8. Belkis Ayón, Lynda Benglis, Ted Joans, and Judy Chicago 9. Belkis Ayón 10. Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Nancy Grossman with Margo Humphrey 11. Lanka Tattersall with Martine Syms 12. Mrinalini Mukherjee with Maren Hassinger 13. Suzanne Jackson, Nancy Graves, and Ted Joans 14. Kathy Acker 15. Barbara Hammer @lankatatters @margaritalizca @simon.ghe @themuseumofmodernart

Jonathan González, Spectral Dances @artsandlettersnyc @thirdlyrelevant — Photos 3 and 5: @maximecavajani

Video legends only! 📺⚡️A gathering in honor of An Evening with Frank Gillette at MoMA and the 50th anniversary of Open Circuits: Cathy Weis, Davidson Gigliotti, Joan Jonas, Judith Barry, Barbara London, Nina Sobell, Frank Gillette, Mary Lucier, Beryl Korot, Suzanne Anker, Skip Blumberg, and Joan Logue. Following slides feature the conversation between Frank Gillette, Barbara London, and Peter Oleksik. #frankgillette @cathyweisprojects @broadcove @barbara_london_calling @nina_sobell @marylucier125 @lyrebtorok @suzanneanker @videoportrait01 @poleksik #opencircuits #radicalsoftware #raindancecorporation #wipecycle @themuseumofmodernart

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Last night a soundtrack saved my life! Almost 15 years after A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner stormed the cinema at MoMA for the premiere of their ribald “sociosexual video” Community Action Center (2010), the work remains a codex for a multigenerational constellation of artists who came together to explore the outer limits of gender, sexual liberation, and radical erotic aesthetics. Sexually explicit, but gleefully defying the conventions of normative pornography, this “unique contemporary womyn-centric composition” acts out “the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual.” This fall, the siren call of Community Action Center issues a loud echo: the release of the soundtrack to the video, featuring a dazzling line-up of artists, from Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Chicks on Speed, Tri-State Area with AV Linton, and Nick Hallett with Sam Greenleaf Miller to Electrelane, Light Asylum, Effi Briest, NGUZUNGUZU, Lesbians on Ecstasy, MEN, Sergei Tcherepnin, Thee Majesty, Kinski, Chateau featuring K8 Hardy, and MOTHERLAND. In addition to a launch party for the soundtrack at The Kitchen on October 8 and a screening of the video at Light Industry on October 16, acclaimed writer and musician Johanna Fateman has penned a tribute on MoMA’s Magazine to celebrate a landmark in genderqueer culture. Read it on moma.org/magazine. #communityactioncenter @aaykayburns #alsteiner @johannafateman @mxviv @chicksonspeed @avlinton @nick_hallett @samgreenleafmiller @electrelaneband @light_asylum @nguzu.nguzu @lezzies_on_x @sergeitcherepnin @k8hardball @themuseumofmodernart @thekitchen_nyc @lightindustry

Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s. Huge kudos to Ann Adachi, Go Hirasawa, Julian Ross, and Collaborative Cataloguing Japan for pulling off this deeply researched and inspiring show, despite the sudden and unexpected closure of the host venue, Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. - Yukihisa Isobe and Jud Yalkut - Masanori Oe and Marvin Fishman - Kō Nakajima - Fujiko Nakaya - Mako Idemitsu - Yasunao Tone - Takahiko limura - Takahiko limura, Akiko limura, Alvin Lucier, Mary Lucier, and The Sparks - Cross Talk / Intermedia, 1969 - Katsuhiro Yamaguchi @collabjapanfilm @an_nkoromochi @julianross12 #gohirasawa