“Find Another Way”
Nick Mauss is an artist whose work connects drawing, gesture, and implications of space with writing, performance, and display. His exhibition Transmissions at the Whitney Museum of American Art catalyzed a new poetics of the archive and historiography through highly innovative work with dancers, curators, art historians, conservators, artworks, collectors, librarians, artists, costume makers, and exhibition designers–where the entire infrastructure of making exhibitions was treated through the lens of performance. Mauss has also collaborated with artists including Ken Okiishi, Lorraine O’Grady, Juliana Huxtable, Kim Gordon, and Yvonne Rainer, among others. A volume of his selected essays on art, cinema, dance, and fashion, titled Dispersed Events, was published by After 8 Books, Paris, in 2024. Touching on the simultaneous modes of his practice, Mauss will narrate an artistic method of re-orientation through which counter-histories are proposed.
Nick Mauss Bio:
Recent exhibitions include The Pulverized Poem, Foro Buonaparte, Milan (2025), Close-Fitting Night, Galerie Chantal Crousel (2024), Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc. at Kunsthalle Basel (2020); and Intricate Others at Fundação de Serralves, Porto (2017). Mauss has intervened in exhibitions including Transcorporealities at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019), Florine Stettheimer at the Lenbachhaus, Munich (2014), and Designing Dreams: a Celebration of Léon Bakst (2016) and Christian Bérard: Eccentrique Bébé *(2022) at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Among recent contributions to catalogues including *Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly (Museum Ludwig, Cologne), and Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s (Menil Collection, Houston), Mauss is the co-author, with Angela Miller, of Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa, published by University of California Press in 2023.
CCS Bard Speaker Series
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives and online here.
Accessibility for Public Programs
Recordings
All our programs are recorded through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives and online here. To inquire about a recording, please contact CCSVisits@bard.edu.
American Sign Language Interpretation
ASL-English interpretation is available for public programs upon request with two weeks advance notice. To place a request, please contact CCSVisits@bard.edu. Relay and voice calls welcome.
Verbal Description
Verbal description is available for public programs upon request with two weeks advance notice. To place a request, please contact CCSVisits@bard.edu. Relay and voice calls welcome.
Captioning
When public programs are held over Zoom, live transcription is available.