DIY: 2013 – Project List

Anja Kanngieser
Tuning In Tuning Out
 (with Sound & Music)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September
Conversations, tactics and practices for neuro-diversity, mental health and communication

 

Ansuman Biswas
Farplayer 
(with The Works Performing Arts Cornwall, University College Falmouth and Sound & Music)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Friday 2 to Sunday 4 August

An exploration of sound in space, of chains, links and breaks, of transmission and reception, of listening and making.

 

Barby Asante and Delaine Le Bas
To Gypsyland
 (with Live at LICA)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Friday 6 to Sunday 8 September

A workshop that explores the personal and political in performative, collaborative and socially engaged practices.

 

Dickie Beau
Immaculate Perceptions
 (with Chelsea Theatre)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Sunday 29 September and Sunday 6 October

A weekend of spiritual hoovering: clearing the way for a blissful return to successful creative release.

 

Geraldine Pilgrim
No Regrets 
(with Colchester Arts Centre)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Sunday 22 to Sunday 29 September

Do you regret not having done something you always wanted to do or wish you could undo something you regret having done?

 

GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN
The Deadwood Stage 
(with Cambridge Junction)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 August

The Live Art community musical!

 

Gustavo Ciriaco
Where the Horizon Moves
 (with Yorkshire Sculpture Park)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Thursday 1 August to Saturday 3 August

A workshop on the horizon as a source of fiction and performance, with practices and discussions.

 

Jesse Darling
Our Bodies, Our Selfies 
(with Abandon Normal Devices)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED 
Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 October 
Reclaiming Overshare for Its Revolutionary Potential: a three-day experimental groupworkshop in radical show (& no-show) & tell (& don’t tell).

 

Jordan McKenzie
Look At The E(s)tate We’re In 
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 September

A three-day summit for artists held on a council estate in East London examining and interrogating socially engaged art practice.

 

Joshua Sofaer
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Soho Sideshow 
(with Artsadmin and The Soho Society)
Friday 30 August 

AND
Friday 11 October

Discover more about the history and current life of Soho and develop a bespoke proposal for the area with production support.

 

Kira O’Reilly
Thinking Through the Body. Combative Manifestos
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 August

Learning grappling/Brazillian jiu jitsu techniques and writing exercises to produce manifestos from, and of, our bodies.

 

Lucky Pierre
I Hate America! (I Love America) 
(With Platform)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 August
AND
Saturday 30 November

An intensive workshop to explore the joining of performance/Live Art with social practice using collaboration, technology and activism to create a community-based 12-hour event

 

Marcia Farquhar
Taking It Personally 
(with Norwich Arts Centre)
APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED
Sunday 3 to Monday 4 November 
Marcia Farquhar invites you to join her for a 24 hour experience to think about how the personal can be political, how the truth can be a lie, and how stories go round and round like records.
Neil Bartlett
I Live Here
 (with The Showroom, University of Chichester)
APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED
Saturday 2 November to Sunday 3 November 
To take a roomful of young artists through the process of devising an (auto)biographical performance – from start to finish – in the space of two days.

 

Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari
Probing Elvis
 (with National Theatre Wales and Chapter Arts Centre)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED 
Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 September
AND
Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 November
In which the group reconsider our own practice by exploring the working methods and practices of Tribute Artists.

 

Noëmi Lakmaier
Imperfect – Live 
September

An online experiment for open minded, risk-taking, female, disabled artists to explore ideas around the female disabled body and its sexuality. Not for wimps or prudes.

 

Peter McMaster
Performing Men – a Retreat 
(with Compass Live Art)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED 
Friday 6 to Sunday 8 September
A three-day and three-night rural retreat exploring the relationship between developing authenticity as men and making contemporary performance.

 

Richard Houguez
Queering hair: A gathering of radical hairdressers 
(with Forest Fringe)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
2 days between Monday 12 and Sunday 18th August tbc 
How can we as hairdressers accommodate the expression of identity? Is it all about style and aesthetic? What is it about salons that makes the hair on our necks tingle with possibility?

 

Rosana Cade
My Big Sister’s Gonna Teach Us To Lap Dance
 (with Fierce Festival)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Friday 13 to Sunday 15 September

A chance to explore various feminist discourses on lap dancing, through receiving, learning and performing a lap dance.

 

Simone Kenyon and Lucy Neal
Waterproof 
(with In Between Time)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Saturday 31 August

A day-long event to collectively explore what makes up our understandings of water.

 

Susannah Hewlett
Functional Fun! (with BUZZCUT and Imaginate)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED 
Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th September 2013 11- 6pm and other ‘viewing dates’ tbc. 
A workshop exploring provocations around making live art for young(er) audiences.

 

Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat
Slow Sunday
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Sunday 27 October

A day of talking, cooking, eating, sharing followed by an evening of presentations, performances, more talking and sharing.

 

Ursula Martinez
Don’t Wait Tables
 (with Duckie)
APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September

Don’t wait tables – make an act!

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Unusual professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists

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