Projects

Collaborative art for social research and engagement

visual arts | new media | performance | publications

The Floating Lab Collective combines traditional and public art practices. Collaborators bring diverse artistic skills across visual art, performance, new media, and publications to address social issues like housing, environment, migration, labor, and urban mobility.

Active since 2007, the Floating Lab Collective has conducted several research projects that resulted in multiple community actions.

Selected Works

Exploring social issues through public and media art.

Modular Engagement Transporter (M.E.T)

Modeled after NASA 's Modular Equipment Transporter, the FLC recreated the M.E.T. to contain a variety of tools to engage social exploration processes.

The Remuseum

The ReMuseum is a participatory, mobile experiment that investigates museum processes such as collecting, displaying, valuing and commodifying objects.

Collective White House

This arts and social change project allows people to re-imagine their relationship to the power structure represented by the White House.

Investigative Institute of Formality

The Investigative Institute of Informality (iii) is a transnational initiative researching the various manifestations, structures, and perceptions of informality.

Past Projects

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More about the FLC

FLC's Floating Museum

One of FLC’s most important tools is a converted taco truck-- a Floating Museum-- that circulates projects among different neighborhoods, communities and regions.

Funding Support

The FLC was started in 2007 in partnership with Provisions Library, an arts and social change research and development center at George Mason University. The FLC depends on grants, donations, and non-profit support to develop these complex public art projects and hold the resulting actions. The following contributors have been integral in our success over the years.

The Creative
Communities
Initiative

The Nathan
Cummings
Foundation

The Virginia
Museum

George Mason University

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities