Slow Social Club × Exquisite Pressure, with Noelle Lee

The Only Animal is hosting an eco-arts edition of What Lab's Exquisite Pressure Residency. We asked 3 artist groups to:

• explore a novel creation process reflecting ‘eco-centric’ values or concepts
• initiate a process or relationship that could have a life beyond the show.

This March, join us for a series of relaxed 'Slow Social Club' meet-ups to share research, experiments, and methods inspired by the artists' residencies, leading to a showing of the new works March 27-28, 2026 at What Lab.

making mobiles: dynamic entanglements

Join us for a shared making space where we’ll create mobiles using found and everyday materials. We’ll work with the mobile as a dynamic form, an entity of balance, movement, and entanglement, shaped by touch, gravity and relationship.

What to expect

As we build and play with balance, we will engage with questions of place, movement, and connection through bodies, materials, memories, and the lands we are shaped by. We invite objects as portals carrying personal, collective, and land memory.

We invite you to bring small objects that fit easily in one hand. Here are some prompts for collecting:

• something reclaimed
• a portal to home
• something that holds traces (elemental markings, memory, ancestral)
• something with a promise
• A childhood fascination
• A glimmer (something that makes your body at ease or feel safe)

Some examples: dried flowers, parts of a broken clock, sticks, stones, shells, a tiny spoon, an ancestor’s ring, a pinecone. You’re welcome to bring whatever feels meaningful. We’ll have some materials and tools available. No experience is needed. This is a space for curiosity, making, and being together!

Accessibility

Please see UNIT/PITT's Accessibility Notes for detailed info about parking, washrooms, wheelchair access to the space, and more.

We welcome your questions and access requests. Please email us at info@theonlyanimal.com.

Artist Bios

Noelle Lee 李茵諾 (Lei Yan Nok is an interdisciplinary, process-based artist, working predominantly with dance, performance, and visual arts. Her work is rooted in an exploration of the intersections between artistic practice and therapeutic modalities, supported by teachings from the land and the people who tend to it. She is greatly interested in improvisational sound and movement, somatic therapeutics, archetypes and myths, and the cultivation and movement of energy. Her work is informed by all those before her and all those that will come, and she is forever grateful to the living entity of land that has always supported her. She was born and raised in Hong Kong, has a Cantonese-Hong Kongese mother, and a Fujianese father raised between Hong Kong and Makassar, Indonesia. She currently live on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

George Zheng Berking is an artist and community organizer on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Rooted in lineages of clown, contact improvisation, somatics, and mobile sculpture, he tends to systems change across individual and collective bodies, attuning them to land and other-than-human beings.

Kyra Royo Fay is a Filipina-American multi-undisciplinary artist, educator, and facilitator living on the unceded territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Nations. Born and raised in the archipelago of Indonesia, her work is shaped by the textures of diasporic identity, ecological kinship, and ancestral entanglement.