Some of the lab’s artifacts hanging in their Creamery District location. By Dezmond Remington.


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Although the Kinetic Sculpture Lab won’t be the same place it has been for the last 30-odd years, they’re still sticking around — and if you want to get up close and personal with the art, you’ll have a shot soon.

The lab is moving into a warehouse at 1680 Samoa Boulevard, about half a mile from the old spot in the Creamery District. The former location is packed with sculptures and tools, and the lab’s small staff won’t be able to move all of that by themselves. The lab needs volunteers (preferably about 30 of them) for a few hours on Feb. 14 and 15 to move items to the new location, as well as people to help clean up the new warehouse on Feb. 7. 

They’re also looking for people with trucks and trailers to help move everything. 

Kinetic Lab contributor and Kinetic Sculpture Race competitor Malia Matsumoto told the Outpost that many of the teams who were building sculptures in the lab have moved their stuff out, so the main things left to move is lab property: lots of tools and decades-old machines, some of them floating in the rafters. Though they’re bulky, she said they’re not heavy.

Matsumoto said the lab will be able to stay in the new spot for at least one year. Matsumoto said she wants to use that time to figure out the lab’s future, perhaps becoming a nonprofit. Five racing teams are moving into the lab, and they’ll have the space to host more teams in the new place than they could in the old. 

“We figure, the more the merrier!” Matsumoto said. “Thirty people doing one hour of work is much more fun than one person doing 30 hours of work. Just like Kinetics, many hands make light work.”

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