Cage Match Project, Round 24: Ritualware by Ariana Kimball
Saturday August 2nd, 2025
6pm-9pm
3600 Lyons Road, Austin, Texas 78702
Cage Match Project Round 24 : "Ritualware" by Ariana Kimball
Join us for the opening of Round 24: Ritualware, a new installation by Austin-based artist Ariana Kimball, presented by Cage Match Project.
This round is especially meaningful–it marks the first project produced throughout our new I/O Residency, launched earlier this year to support emerging artists with mentorship, studio space, and funding. Ariana Kimball was selected through an open call promoted specifically to universities and colleges in the Austin and nearby areas. "Ritualware" reflects CMP's expanded mission: to serve not just as a platform for exposure, but as a space for artistic development.
In "Ritualware," Kimball explores care, repetition, and the invisible labor of keeping things alive. Hydroponic plants, chia-covered pillows, beaded strings, and a carved mandala tree trunk come together to form a quiet, contemplative environment. These materials act as tools for grounding and orienting. A domestic cosmos that responds to the rhythms of body and sky.
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About the Artist:
Ariana Kimball is an Austin-based artist whose work centers care, ritual, and the emotional labor embedded in everyday gestures. Her sculptural language draws from the natural world and domestic life to challenge excess and prioritize presence.
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Curated by:
Manik Raj Nakra, Head Curator of Cage Match Project at the Museum of Human Achievement. Nakra's curatorial work spans art, music, and performance with an emphasis on collaboration and storytelling.
Aryel René Jackson, outgoing curator and interdisciplinary artist working across film, sculpture, and performance to explore memory, land, and speculative time.
Diar Enayatpour, Assistant Curator and Art History student at UT Austin, is also a Curatorial Research Associate at the Visual Arts Center.
Free and open to the public! Refreshments provided!
Follow @cagematchproject on instagram for updates. We'd love to see you there and celebrate this new chapter with us!
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Venue Details
This event will be outdoors with some shade provided, please dress according to the weather.
The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) has aging floors and a gravel parking lot. We recommend closed toe flat shoes, and an outfit that won't snag or get tripped on. We want you to have the best time while remaining safe and gorgeous.
Code of Conduct - https://moha.wiki/Code_of_Conduct
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Accessibility and Health
MoHA is wheelchair accessible. Please reach out to info@themuseumofhumanachievement.com if you have any other accessibility needs and we will do our best to accommodate.
To help keep our community safe and healthy, please do not attend if you feel ill or were recently exposed to illness, such as COVID and the flu.
Hand sanitizer and masks will be available. Masks are welcome!
Additional FAQs - https://moha.wiki/FAQ_%E2%86%92
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Travel & Parking Information
MoHA is located behind the Canopy Art Complex in a gravel parking lot. Guests can park for free in our lot and find free/paid street parking.
Riding bikes? We are accessible for bikes via several trails that connect to Springdale Road.
Riding the bus? The two closest bus stops to MoHA are at the 7th/Springdale stop and the Springdale/Govalle stop. We recommend using Google maps or Cap Metro Trip planner to confirm your route.
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The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) is a community-driven non-profit organization in Austin, TX grounded in affordability, inclusivity and access for artists. MoHA’s vision is for an empowered, resilient creative community where each member has the resources to foster well being, prosperity, and a self-determined future.
MoHA runs a variety of programs in Community Abundance, Digital Arts, Exhibition, and Professional Development for artists, organizers, and audiences. Learn more at their website https://moha.wiki.
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Cage Match Project (CMP) gallery lives in an industrial caged-trailer. Measured at 20x8x7 feet, 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. By fully embracing the caged-trailer as both literal and conceptual context, Cage Match Project purposefully stages a narrative of the artist-at-odds, with either history, space, or a work of art itself.
Since 2017, through an open call process, with several exhibitions per year, CMP has hosted 21 Rounds of physical installations, 2 seasons of podcasts, 12 workshops all of which are created and led by the community and invited artists and collectives.
