Social Practice Lab

Leonid Tsvetkov is an Amsterdam based Russian-American artist best known for his site-specific installations, manufactured spaces, and research into residues, history, and the nature of change. His work investigates the frailty of physical, social, and conceptual boundaries, calling attention to the impermanence of landscapes, borders, and memory. A process-based artist, he employs archaeological deposits, consumer
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Join Marika Niko (SPL affiliated MFA-Dance) for: Meshroom, an open dancefloor for rewilding thought and movement Meshroom is a performance environment that forms an intellectual/intentional community around an open dancefloor. It is a space for transcending narrow languages, ungrounding from fixed realities, and co-creating temporary worlds in movement. Meshroom is shaped by the movement, dreams, hopes,
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Join Zhixuan (Miki) Zhu (SPL affiliated MFA-Dance) for: Infinite Infant Performers: Zhixuan (Miki) Zhu, Nicole Schwartz Based on Buddhist mythology, this 40-minute live performance situates in a cosmic underworld. Through dual movements, two entangled, feminine spirits will share and unveil the infinite reincarnations that elevate love. Infinite Infant communicates that, according to Chinese Buddhism, people have
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Nzinga Simmons is an emerging curator and art history scholar based in Durham, North Carolina. She earned a B.A. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently a third-year doctoral student in Art History & Visual Culture at Duke University. Her research focuses on contemporary Black artists working within
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Conversation with Lyla Halsted (AAHVS Assistant Professor) Lyla Halsted, Ph.D., is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. She specializes in medieval Islamic art and architecture, with a particular interest in material culture. Her research explores material culture as a nexus between practices of healing and protection
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