Motions

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Edgardo Aragón, Kader Attia, Ursula Biemann, Ewa Einhorn and Jeuno JE Kim, Harun Farocki, Forensic Oceanography (Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani), Daryl Celeste Meador, Beatriz Muñoz Santiago, Yoshua Okón

Please note the film program will begin at 6pm each evening.

Motions is a program on the traumatic effects of immigration law that transforms the exhibition venue into an event space and ad hoc cinema. Starting from considerations on the somatic toll of allyship (what is known as secondary trauma), the program unfolds over three weeks with a focus on oppression and neurodiversity, the use of paradigms of victimhood, architectures of separation, and the concept of debt, complicity and reparation in the ally relation. Motions pushes for more radical forms of bearing each other’s weight.

The lobby of Motions will feature a series of prints by Adelita Husni Bey, focusing on the language of U.S. immigration law from 1882-2017 and a booklet featuring exercises dealing with secondary trauma, piloted by the artist through a workshop with members of UnLocal*. Posters designed for the exhibition are on sale with all proceeds supporting UnLocal.