Artists & Projects Directory
Dean Moss/Gametophyte Inc.
Dean Moss creates rigorously constructed performance works that explore identity and perception. His multidisciplinary practice includes performance, dance, video, audio and visual design. Recent projects have focused on innovative audience participation and trans-cultural, cross-disciplinary collaborations.
His recent
work, Kisaeng becomes you, explores
parallels between artist/courtesans of Korea's Joseon Dynasty and contemporary
performance artists. A collaboration with Korean traditional and modern dance
choreographer Yoon Jin Kim, it premiered at the 2008 Seoul International Dance
Festival and was presented at New
York's Dance Theater Workshop in February 2009. Other
past performance collaborations include: figures
on a field with visual artist Laylah Ali; States & Resemblance with photographer Ryutaro Mishima and
Indonesian traditional dance artist Restu Kusumaningrum; and Shuffle with choreographer Yasuko
Yokoshi. Additionally Moss enjoys an ongoing collaboration with
Korean-American playwright/director, Young Jean Lee, notably creating dance and
movement elements for her recent premiere of LEAR at Soho Rep.
His
performance and video works have been presented and exhibited at The Whitney
Museum of American Art; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; Massachusetts Museum of
Contemporary Art; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; Gallery Factory in Seoul Korea;
Ksirarnawa Art Center, Denpasar, Indonesia; New Visions Art Festival, Hong
Kong; The FNB Vita Dance Festival in Johannesburg South Africa; Seoul
International Dance Festival, Smack Mellon Studios; Brooklyn Arts Exchange; Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop and
The Kitchen.
He is the
recipient of multiple grants, fellowships, residencies and awards including:
The MAP Fund, Asian Cultural Council, Arts International, Jerome Foundation,
Greenwall Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, Urban
Artists Initiative, New York Foundation for the Arts, Bali Purnati Center for
the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, the Maggie Allesee National Center for
Choreography, Arizona State University and The Foundation for Contemporary
Arts. He received a New York Dance and Performance BESSIE Award for his work Spooky action at a distance.
Moss has
enjoyed a ten-year relationship with The Kitchen, serving as the Curator of
Dance and Performance from 1999-2004, then as a Curatorial Advisor through
2009. He spent a year as Guest Professor at the Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts and Music and, most recently, two years as Visiting Lecturer in the
Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.