Meredith Monk's Rotation Shrine, 2021 is a single-channel video installation in black and white, with stereo sound, on a 10-minute loop. This is limited-time viewing.

This is a free event. No reservations are needed.

The Mutable Archive: A Cure for Immortality is an expanded cinema performance work written and edited by Patricia Olynyk, produced and directed by Adam Hogan and Patricia Olynyk, and featuring a live score performed by Adam Hogan, presented in collaboration with the UC Irvine Departments of Art and Drama.

LOW POLY DISASTER
by Zebulon Zang 

Thursday, January 8, 12-6 p.m.
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)

The Future Is Present

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, 6-7:30 p.m.

Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)

Please join us at the UC Irvine xMPL on Wednesday, October 16, 6-7:30 p.m., followed by a reception with light refreshments.

The Art of Performance @ UC Irvine 10th Edition

Curated and produced by Deborah Oliver

The Art of Performance @ UCI 9th Edition

presents two new performance works

Curated and produced by Deborah Oliver

Thursday, June 6, 2024, 8 p.m.
new time

Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
in Contemporary Arts Center (CAC)

Free Admission - no reservations necessary

The Art of Performance @ UCI 8th Edition
presents two new works

merge

By Body Weather Laboratory with Oguri and Roxanne Steinberg

The Open: a collaboration project with participants from Art 100

Directed by Simon Leung, Assisted by Zack Benson

Thursday, March 9, 2023
7:30 p.m.

Free Admission - no reservations necessary

The UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Department of Art, the Department of Art History, and the Environmental Humanities Research Center present

My Electric Genealogy
a performance work by Sarah Kanouse

Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022
Noon
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
in the Contemporary Arts Center, Building #721 on the UCI Campus Map

Organized by James Nisbet with Simon Leung and Deborah Oliver

Free admission

The Art of Performance @ UCI 7th Edition presents

Sound House (Everyone is Working)

By John Eagle, Cassia Streb & Janie Geiser
 

Thursday, June 2, 2022
7-9 p.m.

Timed entry beginning at 7:00 p.m. with final entrance at 8:30 p.m.
Free Admission - no reservations necessary

Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)

Curated and produced by Deborah Oliver

Spring 2021

Graduate Student Performances in the xMPL

March 15 - June 25, 2021

Online

Join CTSA graduate students from each of the four departments for a series of virtual performances in the Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL). The xMPL is a black-box space with a focus on interdisciplinary and experimental projects. Below are the residency dates for students. Performance dates will be announced online - check back here often!

Performances