2006 – 2014
Performing Rights was a programme of events curated and produced in collaboration with organisations and others in the UK and around the world. Performing Rights developed from a 2006 partnership between LADA, Queen Mary University, London, East End Collaborations and Performance Studies international for PSi12:Performing Rights (link), and continued as a collaboration between LADA and Lois Weaver of Queen Mary until 2014.
In times of increasing conflicts, injustices, and inequities, Performing Rights set out to reflect the kinds of creative strategies artists are using to effect social, cultural and political change; to illustrate new models of relationships between art and activism; and to consider the role and responsibilities of artists, curators, and performance itself, in the understanding, enactment and sustenance of human rights.
Performing Rights events included performances, presentations, lectures, discussions, screenings, installations and interventions around ideas of performance and human rights.
Performing Rights programmes also featured installations of The Library of Performing Rights, an ever expanding physical resource of books and materials reflecting the relationships between performance and Human Rights.
The Library is housed in LADA’s Study Room, and is available for tour.
Performing Rights programmes:
Performing Rights: Encuentro, Montreal, 2014
Performing Rights: Corpo-Copia, Brazil, 2012
Performing Rights Glasgow, 2008
The Long Table on Performing Rights, 2008
An ongoing programme of events examining the intersection between performance and Human Rights
Performances, presentations, discussions, screenings, and interventions around ideas of performance and human rights at the NRLA.
Read moreThe Library of Performing Rights featured at the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro 2014.
Read moreAn ever expanding collection of resources on performance and Human Rights.
Read moreAn experimental discussion format led by Lois Weaver on relations between performance and human rights.
Read moreBanner image credit:
Luiz De Abreu. Photograph: Gil Groffi.
The Library of Performing Rights is available as a place of action, a place of knowledge exchange, a repository of experience, and a context that others can use to support and advance their own work both at LADA and elsewhere.
The Library of Performing Rights is available as a place of action, a place of knowledge exchange, a repository of experience, and a context that others can use to support and advance their own work both at LADA and elsewhere.
Read moreLADA has announced Barby Asante as the first recipient of the Library of Performing Rights commission
Read moreNando Messias is the second recipient of the annual Library of Performing Rights commission.
Read moreA three-year research project bringing together artists and academics to investigate ideas of cultural value.
Read moreAn ongoing series of initiatives mapping and marking representations of identity politics in Live Art
Read morea pop-up Study Room as part of the Hackney Wicked Art Festival
Read moreThe Agency celebrated its tenth anniversary through a special series of projects.
Read moreA hand picked selection of materials from LADA’s Study Room
Read moreAn original and inventive resource created by Joshua Sofaer
Read moreA Showcase of ten of the most innovative, daring and exciting young artists from the UK and Ireland.
Read moreSummary of LADA activities as part of the ACE’s Catalyst Programme
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