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|Program short description=CMP is | |Program short description='''Cage Match Project''' (CMP) is an experimental gallery that lives in an industrial caged-trailer. This weathered and rusted container resides in a gravel parking lot in Austin, Texas where it is under constant exposure to the elements and 24-hour public viewership. Its current curator is Aryel René Jackson, an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Cage Match Project was developed in 2015 by Ryan Hawk, a fellow video artist and sculptor. | ||
|Program start date=2017-02-01 | |Program start date=2017-02-01 | ||
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CMP is | '''Cage Match Project''' (CMP) is an experimental gallery that lives in an industrial caged-trailer. This weathered and rusted container resides in a gravel parking lot in Austin, Texas where it is under constant exposure to the elements and 24-hour public viewership. Its current curator is Aryel René Jackson, an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Cage Match Project was developed in 2015 by Ryan Hawk, a fellow video artist and sculptor. | ||
CMP supports artists of various mediums to fully embrace the caged-trailer as a literal and conceptual context. Measured at 10 ft by 8 ft by 7 ft, this weathered and rusted container resides in a gravel parking lot in Austin, TX where it is under constant exposure to the elements and 24-hour public viewership. CMP provides independent, ambitious, and proactive artists to apply through an open call process. If selected, artists receive funding, 24-hour access for a 1-2 week installation, and promotional opportunities such as being featured on CMP’s podcast, started by curator Aryel René Jackson in 2020. CMP seeks to support artists who are dreamers, tinkerers, poets and thinkers to purposefully stage a narrative of the artist-at-odds, with either history, space, or a work of art itself. | |||
Follow us on Instagram @cagematchproject for updates and news about open calls, upcoming installations, podcast episode releases, and art opportunities and events in Travis County. | |||
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Latest revision as of 18:32, March 18, 2025
| Date start | Feb 2017 |
| Type of Program | Art · Exhibition |
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| Staff | Ariel Rene Jackson · Curator |
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Program purpose
Cage Match Project (CMP) is an experimental gallery that lives in an industrial caged-trailer. This weathered and rusted container resides in a gravel parking lot in Austin, Texas where it is under constant exposure to the elements and 24-hour public viewership. Its current curator is Aryel René Jackson, an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Cage Match Project was developed in 2015 by Ryan Hawk, a fellow video artist and sculptor.
CMP supports artists of various mediums to fully embrace the caged-trailer as a literal and conceptual context. Measured at 10 ft by 8 ft by 7 ft, this weathered and rusted container resides in a gravel parking lot in Austin, TX where it is under constant exposure to the elements and 24-hour public viewership. CMP provides independent, ambitious, and proactive artists to apply through an open call process. If selected, artists receive funding, 24-hour access for a 1-2 week installation, and promotional opportunities such as being featured on CMP’s podcast, started by curator Aryel René Jackson in 2020. CMP seeks to support artists who are dreamers, tinkerers, poets and thinkers to purposefully stage a narrative of the artist-at-odds, with either history, space, or a work of art itself.
Follow us on Instagram @cagematchproject for updates and news about open calls, upcoming installations, podcast episode releases, and art opportunities and events in Travis County.
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