P018 → MOTA 000
MOTA 000 a series of nomadic conversations in Brussels criss-crossing and connecting the city’s artists through their shared questions and enquiries. The aim of MOTA 000 is to create temporary communities around artist-questions, to propose, debate, discuss, share and problematize bursting through disciplinary, linguistic and other precieved borders. To create a porous space to come together in difference around the questions that drive our practices.
MOTA 000 is Liselore Vandeput, Eszter Nemethi and Julia Rubies Subiros, and the artists present. Each month an artist is asked (someone we have met directly or got to know through our open call) to articulate and propose a specific question with us around a theme. The conversations then follow a discursive score to propose, open and debate these questions together.
MOTA 000 is also a discursive score made up of a theme and provocation, a question articulated and briefly proposed, small discussion and a general debate. It is also tea, coffee, beer and olives. A shifting landscape of venues and people, enquiries and points of view.
MOTA 000 strongly believes in hospitality, open doors and our ethical obligation for curiosity.
Invited artists 2019-2023 & their questions
- Elen Braga : Whose Image can appear? Who decides what social concerns can be represented? What are the narratives behind the good intentions? How can we create narratives that allow new realities of the self?
- Alex Capile : How to produce the world differently without a manual? An (un)guided approach to simple things.
- Désorceler la Finance : How to break up with TINA* ? *TINA for “There Is No Alternative”
- Miguel Escobar : Can we create conditions for the parrot to define its name? And then how?
- Nassia Fourtouni : If silence is something to pass over that which we do not voice, what do your (our?) silences activate?
- Inga Gerner Nielsen : What happens to the surroundings when you institute your own order of things?
- Rachel Himmelfarb : How to not finish a space?
- Irina Lavrinovič & Asher Lev : How does mythology help us rethink the "end of the world"?
- Giulia Ledda : Could we ever tell the king we've been to the sea, but we found salt and no water? how to negotiate the institutional gaze?
- oracle : How is loss worth saving?
- Lili M. Rampre : What is the significance of 'arts literacy' beyond the arts education context?What is the contemporary relation between arts literacy and demarcation of disciplines? And what do we expect of our audience in those same terms?
- Rob Ritzen : How to build an artistic repertoire for political change?
- Francesca Saraullo : How can you recall an ‘archaic’ memory? A mental Function that brings out emergent traces of (non)human matters from before human language.
- Hoda Shiathiri : If we think about ancestral embodiment as a process of transmitting knowledge, then what sort of knowledge are we referring to?
- Martín Zícari : Who is privileged enough not to lie?
a project by Eszter Némethi, Liselore Vandeputte and Julia Rubies Subiros
MOTA 000 has been realised with funding from the VGC and Delphine Houba, Alderwoman of Culture of the City of Brussels and with the support of workspacebrussels, Tropicana, Zinnema, Atelier KITO, GC De Markten, SB34 - Clovis, Lagrange Points, N0dine, Artist Commons, La Valée, Decoratelier and the Green Corridor.