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Dean Moss/Gametophyte Inc.
Dean Moss is a director, choreographer and media artist. He creates rigorously constructed 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 latest premiere,Nameless forest (2011), is a collaboration with Korean sculptor and installation artist Sungmyung Chun, and explores the audiences' role (and risk) in the nature of art making. Other recent performance collaborations include: Kisaeng becomes you (2009), with Korean traditional and modern dance choreographer Yoon Jin Kim; States & Resemblance (2007) with photographer Ryutaro Mishima and Indonesian traditional dance artist Restu Kusumaningrum, and figures on a field (2005) with the visual artist Laylah Ali.
Moss' performance and video works have been exhibited and presented internationally, including: the Seoul International Dance Festival; Ksirarnawa Art Center in Denpasar, Indonesia; New Visions Art Festival, Hong Kong and the FNB Vita Dance Festival in Johannesburg South Africa. Locally the works have been presented by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; The Whitney Museum of American Art; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Brooklyn Arts Exchange; The Danspace Project; Dance Theater Workshop, and The Kitchen.
These works have been variously supported by The National Endowment for the Arts; The MAP Fund; Jerome Foundation; Greenwall Foundation; The New York State Council on the Arts; The New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project; New York Foundation for the Arts' Artist Fellowships; Asian Cultural Council Fellowships; the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Residencies; Arizona State University, Residencies, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Moss received a New York Dance and Performance BESSIE Award for his 1999 work Spooky action at a distance, and Nameless forest has been nominated for two 2011 Bessies: for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Sound Design.
Moss was the Curator of Dance and Performance at The Kitchen from 1999-2004 and served as a Curatorial Advisor until 2009. He taught for a year as a Guest Professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (2003-04) and two years (2007-09) as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. In 2011 he lectured in the department of Theater Studies at Yale and is currently a Visiting Professor in the departments of Art, Dance, and Intermedia Studies, at Hunter College.