Artist Residency
What Lab provides residencies to creators as an opportunity to experiment with new forms, ideas, and challenges.
The residency program is a home for financially unburdened creative exploration, community building, knowledge sharing, and public access to the arts. What Lab has been honoured to welcome these artists through our doors, to help expand their practice, and open their work up to our communities.
Past Residents
Alex Mah and Luciana D’Anunciação
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 During their residency, Alex and Luciana will explore the use of verbal (text-based) scores to instigate…
Dominique Wakeland
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 Throughout this residency, Dominique wants to explore the idea of the New Minstrel, and Internet Blackface–a…
THEATRECORPS.
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 Led by Alexa Fraser featuring Matthew Winter and other collaborators with both musical theatre and contemporary…
Sasha J. Langford
April 2020 Sasha dove into her project Sleeping positions for a room slated for demolition, which made use of sound, text, and…
Charlie Cook
March 2020 In Charlie’s time with What Lab, they shared the space with other queer and trans artists to share…
Vancity Waacking
March 2020 Vancity Waacking was What Lab’s first “Community in Residence”, using the studio as a temporary home to further…
olive theory
July 2019 olive theory, consisting of performing artists Stefan Nazarevich and Shion Skye Carter, used their time at What Lab…
Lauren Marsden
July 2019 During her time at What Lab, Lauren began material research for a new series of sculptures and videos…
June Fukumura
June 2019 June developed her new full length solo clown performance, My Name is SUMIKO, which premiered at Vancouver Fringe…
Chelsea Cater
May 2019 Chelsea, currently living in New York, used the summer residency to focus on acclimating to Vancouver and the…
mia susan amir
May 2019 mia susan amir (she/her/hers) was born in Israel/Occupied Palestine. She is a queer, Crip+Mad Jew of mixed Ashkenazi and…
Ben Brown
February 2019 Ben Brown – I am a mover and shaker. I am thefounder of Music And Movement Mondays (MAMM). As a…
Shooting Gallery Performance Series
November 2018 Shooting Gallery Performance Series brings together experimental dance, theatre, sound and performance art in a cozy and casual…
deanna peters/mutable subject
November 2018 Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject is a dance artist who creates for stage, club, screen, web and print. Recent projects include META,…