Bodies move freely through an ambiguous urban “utopia”…or do they? Shot on 16mm film and digital video.
7 mins
A popular lesbian ‘commercial,’ 110 images of sensual touching montages in A, B, C, D rolls of ‘kinaesthetic’ editing.
4 mins.
Documentation of projects undertaken by Adrien Sina, Tomasz Kitliński and Paweł Leszkowicz. Includes interviews, photos and promotional material from venues including Marlborough Pub and Theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art and Tate Britain.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights ( P3041).
Feminist science fiction that anticipates a post-patriarchal future.
Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.’A genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire.
Recounts Preciado’s transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., and examines other processes of political, cultural and sexual transition.
45 minute talk with Gloop, led by Finn Love. Part of LADA Screens.
Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.
The first issue of the ADHD artist zine.
Draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the role of abandoned landscape in this explosion of queer culture in NYC.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
First print issue of the journal published by a collective for thinking gay communism together.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Delves into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Asking urgent questions about drag today, Louche takes a critical and constructive approach to queer performance culture: its past, present and future. Featuring contributions from over thirty artists, writers and illustrators.
A gathering of international transgender performers and their audiences in Liverpool in November 2011. Part of LADA screens.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Exhibition catalogue. Hayward Gallery, 12 June – 8 September 2019
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Fourth edition of the journal of sexuality and erotics.
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A specially filmed conversation between Ron Athey and writer Jennifer Doyle. Filmed in LA for LADA Screens by Brittany Neimeth.
Part of LADA Screens 6.
Publication made as part of a choreographic work investigating the relationship between theoretical, aesthetic and performing aspects of an artistic work. Includes two essays: ÆØÅ and Pointing back.
15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought the author argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Through personal essays, interviews, and poetic verse, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection.
Documentation from the public screening of Adrian Howells' works featuring presentations from Adrian's collaborators and colleagues. The event launched LADA screens 13 and the publication It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells. Selected works of Adrian Howells were available online 18 July – 1 August 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel.
Follows two nurses, both named Jackie, who create biographical slideshows for patients as a tool for reflection on posthumous digital legacies, withdrawal, friendships, cultural and social loss, and memory as identity.
Part of LADA Screens 11. The film was available online 16-29 May 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel. Includes a compilation of episodes 1 – 7, split into two files.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Super 8 film was made at the Festival de l’Etrange, Vidéotheque de Paris. Produced by Homemade FIlms.
Part of LADA Screens 6.
Seminal but rarely seen performance, recorded at Club Lingerie in Los Angeles, California, 1984.The folder also includes a short promotional video.
Part of LADA Screens 8. The film was availble online between 29 March – 11 April 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel.
Pines towards a future vision that surpasses generally accepted structural limitations of the human condition. Part of LADA Screens.
Includes:
Moon River (and project description), 2018/2019, 10:47
Nest: Inhabit (and project description), 2019, with Samantha Sweeting, 11:42
The Empty Station (and project description), 2017, with Chris Spencer-Lowe, 5:58
An interview with The Guerrilla Girls. Liquid damage on publication.
Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
On female photographers who photograph men.
Liquid damage on publication.
Female artists; suggestions to Nick Serota, as Tate expands to a fourth London gallery.
Liquid damage on publication.
Audio recording from the informal event which included a practical session of creating ‘access and equality riders’ for artists and audiences. LADA, 26 June 2018. 2 audio files.
An interview with women at the forefront of art and technology.
Liquid damage on publication.
Examines the embodiment of pain in Máiréad Delaney’s performance.
Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
On Kollwitz's reception in America, 1900-1960
Liquid damage on publication.
Documentary bout queer live art on tour across the UK .
The fourteen essays bringing together a unique gathering of artists, many of whome make works which arise out of responses to the situation or the environment in which they find themselves.
A consideration of 'new dance' in response to writings of Luce Irigaray.
On Mendieta's late 70s series, in which the artist trekked into the woods and marked the outlines of her body agains the earth.
A collection of secret stories exploring sexuality, vulnerability and desire, taken from interviews with butches, masculine women and gender rebels living worldwide.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
On Harbourfront Centre 2014 World Stage Festival, Toronto.
Second edition of the anthology consisting of texts written by artists active within the field of dance and choreography in the Nordic countries.
In Nordic languages and English.
Interview with Mary Paterson and Deborah Pearson about their DIY project.
Works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Zine focusing on the questions that speculative fiction can ask which are especially important now.