Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

André Lepecki

Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and Associate Dean in the Center for Research and Study at the Tisch School of the Arts
André Lepecki was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Living Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2014.

André Lepecki works and researches at the intersection of critical dance studies, curatorial practice, performance theory, contemporary dance and visual arts performance. Selected curatorial work includes Chief Curator of the festival IN TRANSIT (2008 and 2009 editions) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Co-curator of the archive Dance and Visual Arts since 1960s for the exhibition MOVE: choreographing you, Hayward Gallery (2010)....

Raina J. León

Poet, Writer, and Former Professor of Education at Saint Mary’s College of California
Raina J. León gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Raina J. León, PhD is Black, Afro-Boricua, and from Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape ancestral lands). She is a mother, daughter, sister, madrina, comadre, partner, poet, writer, and teacher educator. She believes in collective action and community work, the profound power of holding space for the telling of our stories, and the liberatory practice of humanizing education. She seeks out communities of care and craft and is a member of the...

Việt Lê

Artist, Writer, Chair of Graduate Visual and Critical Studies Program and an Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at California College of the Arts
Việt Lê gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series.

Việt Lê is an artist, writer, and curator whose work over the past twenty years examines spiritualities, trauma, representation and sexualities with a focus on Southeast Asia and its diasporas, as well as intersectional coalitions. Dr. Lê is the author of Return Engagements: Contemporary Art’s Traumas of Modernity and History in...

Thomas Jean Lax

Writer and Curator in the Department of Media and Performance at MoMA
Thomas Jean Lax was a Visiting Curator/Moderator at the Visual Activism Conference at the Arts Research Center on November 12, 2020.

Thomas Jean Lax is a curator and writer specializing in black art, queer study and performance. At the Museum of Modern Art, they organized the exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (2022) about the gallery, founded by ...

Fernando Luiz Lara

Architect, Author, and Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design
Fernando Luiz Lara gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

Fernando Luiz Lara works on theorizing spaces of the Americas with an emphasis on the dissemination of design ideas beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries. Framed by decolonial theories, Lara has written widely about issues that pertain to the built environment of our continent.

His latest publications include Street Matters: A Critical History of 20th Century...

Víctor Albarracín Llanos

Writer, Curator, Visual Artist
Víctor Albarracín Llanos was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Víctor Albarracín Llanos is a writer, curator and visual artist, with an MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design. He is currently Artistic Director of Lugar A Dudas. He advanced film and television studies that he has never put into practice. To survive he has been a bookseller (Exopotamia, in Bogotá), an artist without work, a university teacher (Tadeo, Javeriana, Nacional, Distrital, in Bogotá), a bad...

Stan Lai

Playwright and Theater Director
Stan Lai was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center from 2012-2013.

One of the most celebrated voices in the contemporary Chinese theatre, Stan Lai has been called "The best Chinese language playwright and director in the world." (BBC) "The preeminent Chinese playwright and stage director of this generation." (China Daily) "Asia's top theatre director." (Asiaweek) "The most celebrated Chinese language playwright and director in the world and his body of work - which to date includes over 35 original plays - has redefined how we think about...

Tony Labat

Multimedia Artist, Installation Artist, and Former Professor in the Department of Performance and Video at the San Francisco Art Institute
Tony Labat was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Curating People Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011.

With ironic wit and incisive social critique, Tony Labat's provocative, nonlinear narrative collages confront cultural identity, loss and displacement. Adopting an irreverent, often subversive stance, Labat represents the experience of difference and marginalization from the mediated position of the "outsider," and deconstructs the codes by which the mass media reinforces cultural mythologies. In his idiosyncratic pastiches of performance,...

Claudia La Rocco

Poet, Critic, and Performer
Claudia La Rocco gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 21, 2013.

Claudia La Rocco is the author of Drive By (Smooth Friend, 2022); Certain Things (Afternoon Editions, 2022); Quartet (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020); petit cadeau (The Chocolate Factory, 2015); and The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited, 2014).

Her prose poem I am trying to do the assignment was published by [2nd floor projects] as a limited-edition chapbook. She edited I Don’t Poem: An Anthology of...

Marci Kwon

Assistant Professor Art History at Stanford University
Marci Kwon was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Amateurism Across the Arts Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

A scholar of American Art, Marci Kwon's research and teaching interests include the intersection of fine art and vernacular practice, theories of modernism, cultural exchange between Asia and the Americas, critical race theory, and "folk" and "self-taught" art. She is the co-director of the Cantor Arts Center's Asian American Art Initiative. Her book Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism (Princeton...