Hida Viloria Interview.

Part of Carlos Motta's GENDER TALENTS project, this interview features Hida Viloria, a gender-fluid, intersex writer, activist, and Chairperson of Organization Intersex International (OII) and Director of OII-USA, Los Angeles.

GENDER TALENTS is a web-based project by artist Carlos Motta that engages movements and discourses for gender self-determination within trans and intersex communities internationally. GENDER TALENTS features an online archive of video portraits of trans and intersex activists who thoughtfully perform gender as a personal, social, and political opportunity rather than as a social condemnation. Based on in-depth interviews conducted in Colombia, Guatemala, India, and the United States, the portraits expose the ways that activists challenge the bio-cultural "foundations" of society and question gender norms from the perspective of sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, and disability. It documents the ways in which society conditions and regulates bodies and how gender activists build politics of resistance and action.

Carlos Motta is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. Motta's work has been presented internationally in venues such as Tate Modern, London; The New Museum, The Guggenheim Museum and MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá; Museu Serralves, Porto; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; San Francisco Art Institute; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; and many other public, private and independent spaces throughout the world. Motta won the Main Prize-Future Generation Art Prize of the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev (2014). He delivered talks and presentations at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Jeu de Paume, Paris in October 2014. He also delivered a keynote presentation during SF MoMA's Visual Activism symposium in San Francisco in March 2014. Together with AA Bronson, Motta convened in November 2013 the event ritual of queer rituals at Witte de With in Rotterdam. Motta guest edited the e-flux journal April 2013 issue, "(im)practical (im)possibilities" on contemporary queer art and culture. Motta is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2006), was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2008), and received grants from Art Matters (2008), NYSCA (2010), Creative Capital Foundation and the Kindle Project (2012). He is part of the faculty at Parsons The New School of Design and The School of Visual Arts.