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…
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…
Elitza Koeva: Symbiotic Resonances: Sounding More-Than-Human Worlds As part of her postdoctoral fellowship with the Thinking with Plants and Fungi initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, Elitza Koeva is working on a case study on how trees at the Harvard Divinity School communicate and respond to stimuli like…
GSD: Atmospheric Encounters “Atmospheric Encounters: Visualizing the Invisible” is a Fall 2024 course offered by the Graduate School of Design and taught by Craig Douglas. The class convened at ArtLab for site visits and student critiques throughout the semester. At the end of the course, students participated in an open studio at ArtLab. Craig Douglas…
GSD: Echoes of Empire Echoes of Empire is a course offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), taught by Landscape Architect Rosalea Monacella. The course meets at ArtLab for studio sessions throughout Spring 2025. Rosalea Monacella (ArtLab faculty-in-residence, 2025) is a Landscape Architect and scholar who has undertaken research on a number of…
HUCA Commission: Proximity Continuum “Proximity Continuum,” a short film directed by Malakhai Pearson and Joseph Zeal Henry, is the third iteration of the SUPA System project at ArtLab. Beginning with Joseph Zeal Henry’s commission by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) in January 2024, the SUPA System sonic sculpture became the centerpiece of a dance…
The critical questions of this project are: What is the relationship between dance and technology?How can the kinesthetic dimensions of interaction be made visible? Ilya Vidrin and Partnering Lab’s project continues the research conducted during their 2020 ArtLab residency, which was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will spend a week in March 2025 at ArtLab developing a new…
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…
