Stock Check Artists
- Date
- Friday 27 Jun 2025
Earlier this year, in collaboration with Artist in Residence Claudia Palazzo, LADA put out an expression of interest for a new peer-to-peer development group for artists working within the multiplicities of Live Art, called Stock Check. We had an amazing response from many brilliant artists, and invited a group from a diverse mix of disciplines and backgrounds, exploring ideas that resonate with each other.
We are delighted to welcome Ngo Chun Tse, Mark Farid, Lydia Newman, Pianka Pärna, Josh Philpott, Shuwen Tan, and Angel Zinovieff, alongside Claudia Palazzo as the Stock Check group. The eight artists will meet over four evening gatherings at LADA from July to October, taking turns to share practice and discuss the work together over home-cooked dinner.
Ngo Chun Tse
What are you currently exploring in your work?
‘I am currently developing a video installation that explores the cinematic tropes of road movies and the cultural architectures of Chinatowns. Working with game engines, I am producing a digital epic theatre that traces physical and psychological journeys – spaces where the landscapes of displacement, memory, and identity are reimagined. This project is rooted in the politics of movement and migration, examining how certain cinematic and urban forms have generalised diasporic experiences.’
Ngo Chun Tse is a Hong Kong-born artist living and working in London. His practice works with moving image, text, installation and lecture performance, critically engaging with the historiography of decolonisation, the production of technological and cinematic images, and the hauntology of diasporic experience. In 2024, Chun was a part of Peer-to-Peer, an artist support programme convened by Metroland Cultures.
Ngo Chun Tse, 2020. Image James Acey
Mark Farid
What are you currently exploring in your work?
‘I currently work on Invisible Voice – a browser extension, app and live artwork that reveals, in real time, the companies and ethics behind the products and services we use. Supported by Horizon 2020, S+T+ARTS and UAL, it’s been exhibited internationally. I’m now exploring live, embodied formats that shift from screen-based interaction to shared political and social presence – using liveness not as spectacle, but as a structure for collective attention, critical reflection and action around the power dynamics the project exposes.’
Mark Farid is an artist, researcher and Fine Art lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His work explores how new technologies shape identity and selfhood, focusing on privacy, surveillance and data rights through hacker ethics. Farid critically engages with social, legal and political systems. His projects have been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, the Pompidou Centre, Sundance Institute, and featured by BBC, Fox, Arte, France24, The Guardian and The Telegraph.
Mark Farid, image courtesy of the artist
Lydia Newman
What are you currently exploring in your work?
‘I’d love to share and play with Sand Suit as part of Stock Check – a participatory performance using a wearable sandbag suit, layered text, voice and audience interaction. Rooted in ancestral memory and transformation, I’m exploring how to deepen the emotional honesty of choreographed images on stage. For mythe upcoming Whitechapel performance at the Whitechapel Gallery Takeover in October, I’ll be using a mic and I want to explore how sound can amplify presence and intention, while testing new forms of participation that support the narrative arc.’
Lydia Newman is a multidisciplinary artist exploring how colonial legacies and global systems shape how we move, relate and survive. Her practice – spanning performance, painting and sculpture – is rooted in soul-led expression as a form of resistance. Lydia uses image, body and sound to explore personal reckoning and social critique, reclaiming space emotionally, physically and spiritually. She wants to invite audiences to pause, witness and remember that other ways of being are possible.
Lydia Newman, 2025. Image Laisul Hoque
Claudia Palazzo
What are you currently exploring in your work?
‘Dancing as mystery affirmation and transformation.
Questioning and unpicking the systems, structures, and power placed on ‘understanding’ in art, the body and language.
Alternatives to individualism whilst also trying to de-censor my autobiography.
The millions of dead olive trees around my nonna’s house.’
Claudia Palazzo is a London born artist working at the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation and alternative cabaret. Often poetic, unmanageable, meditative and violent in its structure. Influenced by roots in club culture, inner-city structures and psychophysical training.Her work often exists in a place of tension using the interplay between inherent strength and the impact of damage.Claudia is currently looking for things to represent her dancing body in her absence and wonders how we can challenge ableist ideals of mobility without succumbing to soft control that is disguised as care.
Claudia Palazzo. Image by Ian Buswell
Pianka Pärna
What are you currently exploring in your work?
‘I am currently working on a live art ballet entitled Curtain Call, exploring the inherent masochism in the dance form with a group of three dancers. This work seeks to discover a ‘post-ballet’ choreography which plays on gender non-conformity, pain realities, un/worlding and queerness. Further, it is interested in a ‘post-pain’ which considers the automatisation of modern society and normalisation of production-obsessed outcomes across socio-cultural contexts. The performance also tests the indeterminacy of classical instruments following processes of de-construction.’
Pianka Pärna is a non-binary post-Soviet performance artist from Estonia working across body-based practices, exploring Baltic/Slavic mythologies, queer grief/futurity and gender non-conformity. The works intertwine folklore, ritual, mythological storytelling and endurance to challenge hegemonic heteronormative narratives and cultural silencing while engaging in un/worlding – balancing creation, disintegration and collective transformation through bodily autonomy. Further, Pianka creates sculpture and installation of various scale, reflecting and re-using performance remnants and generating re-imagined activations of humanness in all its liminal forms.
Pianka Pärna, 2024. Image Kristaps Dublans
Josh Philpott
What are you currently exploring in your work?
‘Proposal to read unrealised proposals (2024 – ongoing) is an iterative poetic reading of proposals for unrealised artworks. I write proposals akin to performance scores; executing my work is a bodily performance from which the remaining traces are exhibited as drawings, site-specific interventions, writing, etc. My proposals sit as an embodied practice of art alongside practices of relationship, self-care, honesty, living with cystic fibrosis, etc. Proposal to hold space for emergent relations through intertwined practices.’
Proposal to write an artist bio: Josh Philpott (b. 1994, Birmingham, UK) works from Conditions Studio Programme in Croydon. Proposal to make site responsive work to frustrate the infrastructures which govern social movement; to tease poetry from the mundane and the chaotic; to establish parameters from which unexpected connections and interesting failures emerge. Proposal to not quite fulfil any of these proposals but fulfil something in between and around them instead.
Josh Philpott. Re-enactment of Martin O’Brien’s pose for the front cover of his book Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O’Brien (Ed. Martin O’Brien and David MacDiarmid, LADA, 2018). Spontaneously performed, 2025.
Shuwen Tan
What are you currently exploring in your work?
‘I explore performance beyond fixed stages – fragmented, porous, shaped by presence. Audiences don’t observe from afar; they enter shifting zones. Inspired by rhizome theory and ‘non-places’ like toilets, I turn overlooked sites into spaces of shared vulnerability. Language becomes stuttered and cursed – semantically heavy, but ruptured. My work resists categorisation, built from gesture, absence, and diasporic relations.’
Shuwen is a London-based queer artist and independent director working across performance, text and movement. They are soon to graduate from Central Saint Martins with an MA in Fine Art. Their work activates overlooked, transitional spaces through devised theatre and site-responsive practice. Using a ‘character switch’ method, they blend Eastern and Western vocabularies to explore queerness, displacement and collective memory, creating immersive environments where performer and audience co-exist within unstable, shifting structures.
Shuwen Tan, image courtesy of the artist
Angel Zinovieff
What are you currently exploring in your work?
‘I want to spend time thinking about the body as an inherited history, as the material of time. And the scale of it all. One single life among all the lives in this time in the whole of time. This great scale, which is itself I think a kind of madness. I am currently working on a performance and a body of writing around these themes.’
Angel Zinovieff completed their MFA in fine art at UCLA in Los Angeles in 2019. Since then they have presented their work in New York, London and Los Angeles. They are fascinated by the question of how time is inherited through the body and in the task of living through the present haunted by history.
Angel Zinovieff, image courtesy of the artist
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