Originally founded in 1984 by five art students from San Francisco State University, The Lab is a Bay Area institution that has been devoted to the avant-garde for decades, though its survival has never been guaranteed. But thanks to people in the Bay that care about pushing art to the limits and supporting artists that explore those liminal spaces, The Lab lives on today in possibly its most potent form ever. Read on for our interview with Dena Beard, Executive Director of The Lab. And check out our wildly eclectic playlist of artists that have performed at the Lab in 2022.