Explores fat activist language.
Exhibition catalogue. Attenborough Arts Centre, 10th May – 14th July 2019.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Calls out to freedom in the capitalist commons, within the cultural production of the high street.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism.
Develops a three–part definition of xenofeminism grounded in the ideas of technomaterialism, anti–naturalism, and gender abolitionism.
Zine documenting the DIY 15 project; supported by Chapter Arts.
Four books published as part of STRONG LANGUAGE, published by Tim Etchells:
M John Harrison: Real Dreams
Courttia Newland: That Small Death
Joolz Denby: Dandelion
Selina Thompson: 12 Race Card Answers
(States of Wake) was a live critical writing project that took the form of dedications as moments of critical attention, unfolding as part of WAKE Festival in Folkestone. This book is a document of that process and an exploration of the gesture of dedicating performance.
Brings together artists, curators and producers, writers and critics to think through their relationship with criticism, revealing passionately held and often conflicting opinions on what criticism is and where it resides. Follows Steakhouse: Live Writing, a pilot project undertaken as part of the 2016 Steakhouse Live Festival of Live Art and Performance.
Highlights the various aspects of particular interest and activity which make the British scene distinctive and exciting.
Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade -a subtle engagement with disability culture.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
A performative publication enabling a rich array of theatrical and artistic scores that can be performed at a moment’s notice.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documentation from the DIY 14 project, exploring how personal documents and performance can animate each other within a specific context of travelling and migration.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project, interrogating how re-‘creation’ impacts the creative process.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project: a performance artist and novice sexual deviant attempts to liberate your orgasm via a journey through Leeds’ sex scene.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project, setting and testing ways of getting together to show unfinished work.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project.
Short video made for the DIY 13 project, a briefly-lived modelling agency set upon depicting the fantasy-fiction average lifestyle that is celebrated in corporate imagery
Thirty-six mini scenarios of torture and execution which transform the small immaculate bodies of fruit into figures that seem to increasingly identify themselves with human beings.
Thirty-six mini scenarios of torture and execution which transform the small immaculate bodies of fruit into figures that seem to increasingly identify themselves with human beings.
A publication highlighting a selection of the many events, opportunities, publications and research projects that LADA produced over the course of 12 months in 2015/16.
Examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields, including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Publication documenting de la Rosa's participation in the 'A world of your own workshop', led by Geraldine Pilgrim.
Ritual Ride documents a 1,000 mile pilgrimage, from London to Findhorn Eco-Village and Spiritual community in Scotland. 36 minutes.
Bonus material: DOMINION – Christianity and the Environment, 10 mins.
NAVIGATE 1 was two-day immersive learning environment which explored ideas of collaboration and artist-practice issues through key themes in the lead artist’s practice, supported by and using as a starting point the Hackney WickED Festival 2013.
Digital documentation. Mexican performance artist Felipe Osornio aka Lechedevirgen Trimegisto screening programme of artists working in the contemporary Latin-American scene in relation to Postporno, gender and sexuality, presented on Wednesday 8 April 2015, in the LADA Study Room.
Documentation of DIY 9: 2012 project. A Five-Day Surgery on the practicalities and functionalities of working with the body. ‘The Body as Art’ puts 6 artists & 2 theorists into the company of a Doctor – Dr Tuheen Hudan – and an experienced artist – Michael Mayhew – to talk / enquire / investigate the functionality and practicalities of working with the body within a performative context.
Stand issue one was commissioned by Indivisible and Leeds Metropolitan University as part of (in)Xclusion programme of events.
Archive from the professional development programmes by artists for artists.
An illustrated pamphlet featuring a series of quotations about developing and producing art within a DIY ethic.
Reports on DIY 3 in 2005
A report of the DIY workshops hosted by LADA in 2004
DIY zine given out by the artists during their performance of Kein Applaus fuer Scheisse at In Between Time, Bristol 2013.