CMP: Buse Aktaş, How’s the Matter? An interactive, touchable art installation by Buse Aktaş in which the components periodically undergo state changes. The installation includes elements from and is an iteration of the first research study exploring how people haptically engage with objects that change their mechanical properties during interaction (publication in preparation). Buse Aktaş…
CMP: Max Murray, Georgic Georgic is an evening-length work of music theater created by Max Murray. Taking the plains landscape as its subject, Georgic is a foreboding reflection on the nineteenth century pastoral imaginary. Each of the three performers is both musician and actor, situated in the field of a work-encompassing fixed media component — pre-recorded sound and…
CMP: Pauline Shongov with Maya Shopova, Off-site Lab Off-site Lab, headed by Pauline Shongov with Maya Shopova, is a practice-based research initiative that investigates what critical heritage practices are made possible—and how attitudes towards waste and ecology shift—when we re-imagine the role of care in collection, exhibition, and archive strategies. Taking Bulgaria as a case…
Harvard Ed Portal: Dyllan Nguyen, Fair Play ArtLab welcomes Dyllan Nguyen as part of our collaboration with the Harvard Ed Portal Artist Pipeline. This program supports artists from diverse backgrounds and mediums who live and/or work in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood. Fair Play is an interactive installation in development that uses the object language of table…
TDM: Anne Washburn ArtLab has collaborated with Harvard’s Theater, Dance, and Media program (TDM) to host a creative development residency for Anne Washburn’s immersive theater installation, The Murder Room. In addition to a two-week on-site residency, a public lecture as part of the series Perspectives on Performance will be held at ArtLab, featuring Anne Washburn in…
Harvard Ed Portal: Eden Attar, Bohio (home) ArtLab welcomes Eden Attar as part of our collaboration with the Harvard Ed Portal Artist Pipeline. This new program supports artists from diverse backgrounds and mediums who live and/or work in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood. Eden’s ArtLab project, Bohio (home), explores narratives of Antillean colonization, diaspora, and memory through an art…
HUCA Commission: Liz Lerman, My Body is a Library ArtLab is working with Liz Lerman and collaborators to facilitate the research and development of a new dance-based public artwork. My Body is a Library explores how we create categories, unpack nomenclature, and uphold oral histories and traditions. Lerman’s research is being conducted in collaboration with Harvard…
HUCA Commission: Frank Waln, Waná Wétu Owíčhota Owášta Frank Waln, or Oyate Teca Obmani (“Walks with Young People”), is an award-winning Sicangu-Lakota hip-hop artist and music producer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. He uses his music to speak about social issues and injustices affecting the Native community and as a method for healing….
HUCA Commission: Samora Pinderhughes, The Healing Project The Healing Project, a nonprofit organization co-founded by Samora Pinderhughes, creates artistic works, collective healing spaces, and advocacy initiatives in partnership with individuals impacted by structural violence to build a world based on healing rather than punishment. Pianist-composer Samora Pinderhughes is a Harvard graduate student pursuing a PhD…
HUCA Commission: Joseph Zeal Henry, SUPA System SUPA System is a sonic sculpture and public infrastructure by Joseph Zeal Henry (2024, Loeb/ArtLab Fellow) with Deborah Garcia. As spatial practitioners and designers, they explore music and sound as materials for constructing physical spaces. Built at an outsized architectural scale, SUPA System asks what music and sound can…
