Body of Work
Afterimage Magazine, 34.5 | Mar 28, 2007 | Reine Hauser
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Darling Artist; Tara Mateik
Whitewall | Sep 15, 2006 | Jessica Kraft
New York-based identity insurgent Tara Mateik champions the fantasies of sexual and political mastery and overthrows social codes of masculinity through innovative performances, videos, interventioins, and radical alternative productions. [full article]

Art in Review; E7
NY Times | Sep 15, 2006 | Holland Cotter
... But if I had to choose a single emerging talent as outstanding, the nod would go to Tara Mateik, who, as performer, lecturer, filmmaker, assemblagist and founder of the Society of Biological Insurgents -- designed ''to overthrow institutions of compulsory gender'' -- is way overdue for a New York solo. [full article]

Visions From Nigeria and India and a Van Searching for Utopia
NY Times | Dec 25, 2005 | Holland Cotter
... Certain artists, some very young, most with first shows, quietly rethought the way art looks or works. Among them, let me mention performers like Ei Arakawa, Brendan Fowler, Kalup Linzy and Tara Mateik... [full article]

Art in Review; Bonds of Love
NY Times | Sep 09, 2005 | Ken Johnson
...And although Tara Mateik is not as magnetic a performer as Michael Jackson, her gender-blurring video of herself in a Peter Pan costume lip-synching and dancing to ''Pretty Young Thing'' is certainly entertaining. [full article]

What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Artnet | Aug 15, 2005 | Charlie Finch
... Tara Mateik’s gender-bending Peter Pan dance evokes Nayland Blake and Cindy Sherman. This butch cutie bears watching [full article]

The No Gender Agenda
ArtReview International Art and Style | Aug 15, 2005 | Jennifer Raingold
In Tara Mateik's video installation PYT (2004) gender swapping, gender ethics and Michael Jackson collide as the viewer is transported to Never Never Land and invited to participate in an unconscious, genderless and even childlike discourse. [full article]

Sly vs. Sci
Rhizome: netartnews | Jan 25, 2005 | Kevin McGarry
The Society of Biological Insurgents (SBI, pronounced 'spy') is 'an embryonic cell organization that seeks to overthrow institutions of compulsory gender.' Through distributed actions informed by the SBI Code of Operations, members align in small groups to invade, then metastasize... [more information] [full article]