Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy / Mandeville Art Gallery, San Diego

For the past fifteen years, Lauren Lee McCarthy has worked in performance, video, installation, software, artificial intelligence, and other media to address how an algorithmically determined world impacts human relationships and social life. Lauren Lee McCarthy's current show at Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, is called “Bodily Autonomy”. The show brings together two major works — Surrogate and Saliva — to examine bio-surveillance. There's also a new site-specific video by Lauren Lee McCarthy and Casey Reas for the exterior screen of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Bodily Autonomy is McCarthy’s largest solo exhibition in the United States to date and runs until May 25, 2024. In this video, the Director and Chief Curator of the Mandeville Art Gallery, Ceci Moss, provides us with in introduction to the Mandeville Art Gallery and Lauren Lee McCarthy's exhibition.

Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy. Solo exhibition at Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla. Exhibition walkthrough and interview with Ceci Moss, Director and Chief Curator, Mandeville Art Gallery and Professor of Practice in Visual Arts at UC San Diego. La Jolla, March 7, 2024.

PS: Special thanks to Gallery Guide Stephania Torres-Londono for performing at the Saliva Bar.