CCAM MIX: ground || horizons – Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson

CCAM MIX (Moving Image Exterior) exhibits moving images across the façade of 149 York Street, as well as inside our Leeds Studio. At the confluence of art, architecture, and public space, the system invites passersby to pause, see everyday surroundings in new ways, and enter the building to join us in our studios.

ground || horizons

In Spring 2026, CCAM MIX is being activated with ground || horizons, a project by Guest Art Directors Tusia Dabrowska and Wiktor Freifeld (MFA, Design – Projections, David Geffen School of Drama, 2026). From mid-January to mid-April, works by invited artists working in 3D environments, live performance, etc. will be presented, created or adapted for CCAM MIX. CCAM will also hold an open call for Yale community members to present work from April 13–26. Apply to the open call here.

The next invited artist in the series is Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson. Tracy's work The Feast of Booklice will be exhibited this and next Friday and Saturday from 5–8pm. Stop by 149 York Street—or stay for a while!

About the Artist

Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson is a Ghanaian artist living and working in Accra. Thompson explores plasticity, self-generative patterns in polymers and ultra-processing of foods. These are integral to her interest in non-human agency and ecologies connecting foods to geological formations, thermal fluxes, decomposition, and microbial systems. This aims to deconstruct familiar notions of food and critique the still-life tradition. Thompson’s recent works—“micro-topographies”—are digital reconstructions of micro-landscapes featuring crystalline patterns in foods and digestive fluids, topographies generated from their microscopic images. It blends culinary, microscopic, geological, digital morphogenesis, landscape, and still-life elements. This has translated into forms such as site-specific installations, 3D printing, digital topography animations, and cartography. Thompson has participated in exhibitions such as And This Is Us at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2025, Germany), the Busan Biennale at Busan Museum of Contemporary Art (2024, South Korea), the 35th Ljubljana Biennale (2023, Slovenia), and the 1st Stellenbosch Triennale at Stellenbosch (2020, South Africa), amongst others.

tracynkthompson.com

From the Artist

"My practice explores how shifting the perspective on scale can reorganize our ways of seeing, relating, and consuming. By entering the micro-worlds within food substrates, the work moves away from a human-centred gaze of extraction and appetite, and instead foregrounds the labour, ecologies, and regenerative cycles of the smallest life forms. Through these shifts in scale, medium, and perspective, the work opens up encounters with otherwise unseen narratives in everyday materials. It invites audiences in the public streetscape to reorient their senses and to consider how regeneration operates through processes far smaller, stranger, and more collaborative than human-centered consumption alone."

—Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson

Pictured: Still from The Feast of Booklice by Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, 2026, CCAM MIX (Moving Image Exterior), Yale CCAM, 149 York Street. Photo by Wiktor Freifeld.