Ceci Moss is the new director and chief curator of the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego. Her first exhibition in her new role with the university is the faculty art exhibition, 'Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era,' from March 4 to June 18
; as such, I’m aware of the need for innovative institutional models to support the presentation and production of art. Toward that end, I envision the Mandeville gallery as a “teaching gallery” for the 21st century, promoting technologically innovative, democratic, accessible, equitable, and socially-engaged means of artistic production and presentation.
One of many examples that I could point to is a project I curated called “bless our breath” in Fall 2020 during the height of the pandemic. “bless our breath” was a deck of playing cards initiated by artist Kimi Hanauer that facilitates conversation, reflection, and creative process around breath, as both a theme and a practice, through a range of ideas, questions, and prompts.
The show also includes a large video installation titled “Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater” by, a collaborative performance troupe using music, costume, masks, video, and installation to theatricalize social issues. The video is edited from documentation of a staging in Fall 2022 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in conjunction with the tour of My Barbarian’s 20-year retrospective exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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