<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#000000"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><u>For immediate release:</u></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></b>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Lisboa 20 <span>Arte Contemporānea is launching on September 18th <b>LX 2.0 Project</b>'s</span><span> <span>new</span> comission, the piece<b> Our Political Work</b> by Brooklyn-based artists <b>MTAA</b> </span>(<a title="http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20" href="https://webmail.netcabo.pt/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20" target="_blank">http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20</a>).<span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></div>
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<span></span> <br><br><br></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br><i>In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping
out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself
is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. <br>
-- George Orwell</i><br><br>Continuing
a series of computer-driven self-portraits, MTAA's "Our Political Work"
presents the artists in a never-ending state of screaming, yelling,
waiting and sometimes laughing. Using 141 filmed moments, custom
software randomly selects and joins video clips into a seemingly
endless array of undignified action. Begun in 2007 and completed in
2008, "Our Political Work" creates an open-ended depiction of political
discourse as Beckett-like action.<br>
<br><br>MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates)
are Michael Sarff (M. River), born 1967, Iowa City, Iowa
and Tim Whidden (T.Whid), born 1969, Elyria, Ohio. Both members of MTAA live and work in Brooklyn, New York
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Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden formed the artist collaboration MTAA in
1996. They are currently preparing a new work commissioned by the <a href="http://www.sfmoma.org/" target="_blank">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art</a> for the upcoming "The Art of
Participation: 1950 to Now" exhibition opening in November 2008. MTAA has presented art work and performances at <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/" target="_blank">The New Museum of Contemporary Art</a>, <a href="http://www.ps1.org//" target="_blank">P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center</a>, <a href="http://www.whitney.org/" target="_blank">The Whitney Museum of American Art</a>, <a href="http://www.postmastersart.com/" target="_blank">Postmasters Gallery</a> and <a href="http://www.artistsspace.org/" target="_blank">Artists Space</a>, all in New York city; <a href="http://www.walkerart.org/" target="_blank">The Walker Art Center</a> in Minneapolis; <a href="http://beallcenter.uci.edu/" target="_blank">The Beall Center for Art and Technology</a> in Irvine, CA and at <a href="http://www.getty.edu/" target="_blank">The Getty Center</a> in Los Angeles.
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International exhibitions include the <a href="http://www.senef.net/" target="_blank">Seoul Net & Film Festival</a> in Korea and <a href="http://www.videozone.org.il/" target="_blank">Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennial</a> in Israel. The collaboration has earned grants and awards from the <a href="http://www.creative-capital.org/" target="_blank">Creative Capital Foundation</a>, <a href="http://rhizome.org/" target="_blank">Rhizome.org</a>, <a href="http://www.eyebeam.org/" target="_blank">Eyebeam</a> and <a href="http://new-radio.org/" target="_blank">New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc.</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><div align="left">
</div><font color="#888888"> <div align="left"><br><br><br>Luis Silva</div> <div align="left">LX 2.0 Project (<a href="http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20" target="_blank">http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20</a>)</div> <div align="left">
Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporānea</div>
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