Los Angeles Performance Practice and San Cha Receive Mike Kelley Infinite Expansion Grant

Los Angeles Performance Practice is thrilled to announce that we are a recipient of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts’ 2026 Infinite Expansion Grant. This grant will support “Requiem: por las almas que nacen de la luna” by San Cha, with rafa esparza and Darian Donovan Thomas: a large-scale, immersive performance installation, which reimagines the requiem form through a queer Latinx lens, blending music, installation, and collective ritual into an act of mourning and celebration. Nine Los Angeles County contemporary art organizations were awarded funding to support their projects that exemplify risk-taking, critical inquiry, and community engagement. 

“Before news of the Mike Kelley Foundation grant, we were already thinking big, but this support has fundamentally shifted our horizon. It has empowered Los Angeles Performance Practice and me and my collaborators rafa esparza and Darian Donovan Thomas to realize the show of our dreams, a space where everything is truly possible,” said artist San Cha. “As artists, that is an incredibly exciting and liberating place to be; it feels like we are finally living the dream we’ve been building toward.”

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts advances the artist’s spirit of critical thinking, risk-taking, and provocation in the arts. Established by Kelley in 2007, the Foundation seeks to further Kelley’s philanthropic work through grants to arts organizations and artists for innovative projects that reflect his multifaceted artistic practice. The Foundation also preserves the artist’s legacy more broadly and fosters the understanding of his life and creative achievements through educational initiatives including exhibitions, educational events, publications, and the preservation and care of the Foundation’s art collections and archives.

Photo from San Cha’s Inebria Me, 2025
Photo by Angel Origgi
© San Cha
Courtesy REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)