November 16, 2016

Projects

Explore projects from the Social Practice Lab director, fellows, students, and collaborators

20-22 The Ongoing Biennial
20-22 The Ongoing Biennial – A Weekly Conversation Cycle with International Curators Every Wednesday 1-2pm (EST/GMT-5) Jan 27th and May ...
Abstract Nationalism
Venice Biennale & Creative Time Summit (2015) Abstract Nationalism‘s social interventions, visual compositions, flag displays, and musical performances allow the ...
Abstract Nationalism at 56th Venice Biennale
HOW TO KNOW: THE PROTOCOLS AND PEDAGOGY OF NATIONAL ABSTRACTION HOW TO KNOW, a new work by Pedro Lasch, frames ...
Abstract Nationalism at Seattle's Resistance & Belonging
An art exhibition at Seattle’s historic King Street Station, including a series of workshops, discussions, art-making, and healing led by artist ...
Abstract Nationalism at The Phillips Collection
Beginning with the work’s 2014 premiere at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC’s Embassy Row, the series is constituted in ...
Anger Therapy Sessions
Looking forward to talking politics with family over Thanksgiving? Right. Between children yelling ‘build the wall’ at their classmates, attacks ...
AoM: Activism & Social Movements
Pedro Lasch (author). Co-taught by Nato Thompson & 29 guest presenters ...
AoM: Collective Experiments with Sound
A co-production of Duke University and University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin ART of the MOOC is a series ...
AoM: Public Art & Pedagogy
Pedro Lasch (author). Co-taught by Nato Thompson & 29 guest presenters ...
ART of the MOOC (AoM)
Pedro Lasch (author). Co-taught by Nato Thompson & 29 guest presenters ...
Biquini Wax Collective
Biquini Wax Collective (Paloma Contreras Lomas, Julio García Murillo, Nika Chilewich) Theory in the Jacuzzi. Plastic Report of the Class ...
Community Closet
Sydney Reede, SPL Fellow In spring 2023, Duke undergraduate student and SPL fellow Sydney Reede created and produced Community Closest,  ...
Digna Rabbia (Workshops & Action Committee)
Digna Rabbia is an inspiring and elusive social figure. Having lived in Ramallah and Cairo, among other places, she recently ...
Dreaming in the Woods
Envisioning the camp itself as an art medium, participants at Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts combine traditional techniques with ...
DAC logo
Duke Artist Collective is a growing community of student-creatives on Duke campus. Our goal is to foster a culture of ...
FIRE & ICE
FIRE & ICE (In Memory of Heather Heyer) A public art project by Pedro Lasch Charlottesville Main Street Arena. April 1st, 8-10pm ...
Interwoven Bodies: The Art of Assembly XXV
How do we deliberate before and beyond language? How do we create relations without words? How are our bodies determined ...
Khaya Magazine
Sydney Reede (SPL Fellow and Khaya Magazine Creative Director & Stylist)  First of its kind, Khaya Magazine is a student-run publication that ...
Mercato Morandi
Talk of Giorgio Morandi often dwells on the fact that he rarely left his modest home and life in Bologna ...
Mila de Souza
Mila de Souza, SPL Fellow In the past, fashion has been aligned with fashion shows and trends only, but we ...
Museum Of... (or, MUSREMED)
All Polit(t)ico projects are socially and aesthetically flexible to allow for a truly collaborative process within each research and production ...
NAE & Anatomy of a Nation
This new collaboration with Danza Urbana in Bologna is part of a larger series entitled Abstract Nationalism & National Abstraction ...
Naturalizations
“Naturalizations” is a work in progress based on the production and distribution of a set of masks, which are used ...
Polit(t)ico & Bologna SPL
The Bologna Social Practice Lab, coordinated by Pedro Lasch in collaboration with Rossella Mazzaglia, offers participating students the opportunity to ...
Amandla Magazine
James Mbuthia, SPL Fellow and QAN & Amandla Magazine Co-Founder For this project, James Mbuthia collaborated with over 50 LGBTIQ+ ...
tangle of branches
A meditation on the private, the personal, and the human. A tangle of branches explores interiority and communication using mental health ...
The Lycoming Workshops
Authors: Pedro Lasch, Lynn Estomin & Lycoming College Students ...
The Weekly Monster
The Weekly Monster began on November 8th, 2016. Using black and white social media posts, workshops, and posters displayed in ...
Thing Tank
June 9-11 @ Elsewhere Museum 606 South Elm Street Greensboro, NC Thing Tank is a weekend retreat into a world ...
upstART Gallery
upstART Gallery will host its first group show at Pop Box Gallery & The Art Chose Me’s residency in Old ...
We don't Care: reclaiming our environment
Generations of black, brown and indigenous people were forcibly displaced from their native lands, severing them from their roles as ...
Weekly Monster Poster Editions & Displays
The Weekly Monster series by Pedro Lasch links the story of Frankenstein with contemporary world affairs and began on November ...
Weekly Monster Prospect 4 Publication
The Weekly Monster Pedro Lasch Prospect New Orleans The Weekly Monster began on November 8th, 2016. Taking the form of weekly black ...
Weekly Monster Social Media Posts
The Weekly Monster series by Pedro Lasch links the story of Frankenstein with contemporary world affairs. It started on November ...
Weekly Monster Workshops
The Weekly Monster workshop series was held in New Orleans as part of Prospect New Orleans ‘The Lotus in Spite of the ...
Works in Rough Going
Moriah LeFebvre, SPL Fellow and MFA-EDAWorks in Rough GoingPresented by the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke Works in Rough ...
ZOOMKABOOM
ZOOMKABOOM series is based on the sharing and production of online experiences and meeting places. How can we safely fight ...