Meet the Artists of Body on Me
Cameron Clayborn
.Compost Cooperative
Vishal Jugdeo
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 18, 4:00 – 6:00 PM with a performance by Cameron Clayborn at 5:30 PM
On October 18, we are thrilled to present Body on Me, a group exhibition featuring Cameron Clayborn, .Compost Cooperative (Tabitha Nikolai, Myra Lilith Day, garima thakur, Zan Kerrigan, and Carly Barton), and Vishal Jugdeo. The exhibition opens with a public reception and a performance by Clayborn on October 18 and will remain on view through December 20, 2025.
Body on Me speaks to the intimacy and estrangement of embodiment, the grief of what the body can no longer hold, the wonder of what it still makes possible. The works within move between the cellular and the cosmic, the personal and the systemic, asking what it means to inhabit a body that is fragile, inventive, and unending. Read on to learn more about the artists.
Cameron Clayborn | Photo courtesy of the artist
Cameron Clayborn (b. 1992, Pine Bluff, AR) is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, drawing, and performance. Clayborn’s practice is deeply informed by their personal experiences, with much of their work addressing themes of heritage, fragility of memory, grief, and healing.
Clayborn earned a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and their MFA from the Yale School of Art. Their work has been featured in exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); Woonhuis (Amsterdam, NL); Morán Morán (Los Angeles, CA); and Chapter NY (New York, NY) among others. Learn more about Clayborn here.
Image courtesy of .Compost Cooperative
.Compost Cooperative takes the tossed-out leftovers from digital culture and breaks them down to grow a more lush virtual landscape. In the ease of mass consumption and the gold rush for the supposedly infinite space provided by the Internet, much of our digital infrastructure and the tools used to make it go disconcertingly unexamined. .Compost Co-Op believes that through cultivating a biome of thoughtful appropriation, re-design, humor, and the surreal, we can begin to glimpse a microcosm of new possibility and the recipe to get there. Together, they make websites, video games, educational materials, and a range of other media that playfully percolates on our ever-decaying/blossoming digital world.
.Compost Cooperative is Tabitha Nikolai, Myra Lilith Day, garima thakur, Zan Kerrigan, and Carly Barton. Read more about each artist here.
Vishal Jugdeo | Photo courtesy of the artist
Vishal Jugdeo (b. 1979, Regina, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist. His work across video, installation, performance, sculpture, and text experiments with narrative, blurring fiction and truth. His artworks emerge from what he considers archive oceans, amassments of intimately-gathered video and sound, often captured with interlocutors he meets during his research in places like Guyana and India, sites of his familial lineage, and Los Angeles, where he lives.
Jugdeo's recent experiments with collaborators working with game-engine software (Miljohn Ruperto, chris velez, and cielo saucedo) utilize the technology to imagine an otherwise, in a moment of escalating crisis. Jugdeo is Assistant Professor of New Genres in the Department of Art at UCLA. Find out more here.