The Lab

2948 16th St San Francisco, CA, 94103

(415) 864-8855

The Lab is a nonprofit experimental art and performance space located in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Aine Nakamura: hands on tape
Jun
13
to Jul 12
Exhibition, Commissioned Artists

Aine Nakamura: hands on tape

Aine Nakamura’s hands on tape encompasses a year-long research project at The Lab, taking shape as an installation and series of performances throughout June and July. The work points to disparate subjects of the raw silk trade, the erased labor of both women and silkworms, and the metamorphosis of bodies and materials. Nakamura draws a connection between the city of San Francisco (“mulberry port,” as written with Chinese characters) and her maternal family’s city of Hachioji, Japan (“mulberry city”), shortly before her family’s historical home was sold and left the family. Drawing on her longstanding practice of embodied performance, Nakamura takes on the role of an oni, with a devil mask, as a guardian of her family’s historical home in Hachioji, with photographic documentation threaded through the installation, while further drawing connections between bodies and buildings—a process of healing and release.

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Carrie Hott: Our Shiver
Apr
17
to Jul 12
Exhibition, Commissioned Artists

Carrie Hott: Our Shiver

Over the course of three years, interdisciplinary artist and researcher Carrie Hott investigated The Lab’s digital infrastructure, asking the question: “What would a truly sustainable web look like?” Our Shiver takes form as a solar-powered web server installed on-site at The Lab and accessible online. In addition to the results of Hott’s research and building process, the project includes commissioned essays from Chia Amisola, Jacob Kahn, Megan Prelinger, Andrea Steves, and Xiaowei Wang, with technical contributions by Abram Stern (aphid). The project will also be published in risograph book format, designed by Chris Hamamoto and printed by Colpa Press.

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