virtual care lab
virtual care lab is a series of creative experiments in remote connection, co-founded by myself and Alice Yuan Zhang in 2020, and subsequently organized with a shifting group of contributors. VCL has created innovative openings for joy, empathy, creativity and invention, and explored issues in digital commoning, mutuality and collective care. From 2020-22, VCL created over 40 workshops, performances, and collective research groups including virtual soundwalks, experimental poetry labs, writing a “collective terms of service”, and various magical online portals, and has maintained a very welcoming Discord space. The project was developed in partnership with NAVEL, a non-profit cultural organization and community space in Los Angeles.
A few highlights:
Collective Rest Portal (website & performance at University of Toronto’s 4S Conference)
Terms That Serve Us (public research for The Bentway Conservancy)
José Miguel Portal
Care as Practice initiative
Press:
VCL in Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
VCL in Artillery Magazine
