; 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.