Social Practice Lab

Sherrill Roland’s interdisciplinary practice deals with concepts of innocence, identity, and community; reimagining their social and political implications in the context of the American criminal justice system. For more than three years, Roland's right to self-determination was lost to a wrongful incarceration. After spending ten months in prison for a crime he was later exonerated
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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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