A Live Art Gala 2019

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Date: 26 Oct 2019 - 27 Oct 2019
Venue: St Paul’s Church Hall, Stoke Newington Road, N16 7UY
Address: St Paul’s Church Hall
Stoke Newington Road
London
N16 7UY
Price: This is a fundraising event for LADA + Live Art, tickets are tiered at £20, £30 or £40 - Go for the price that works for you

A Live Art Gala 2019

A fundraising Gala to celebrate LADA’s 20th Anniversary!

Saturday 26th October 2019
7.30pm to late

St Paul’s Church Hall, Stoke Newington Road, N16 7UY

Your MC: Travis Alabanza
Your Auctioneer: Gary Carter
Your Auctioneer’s Assistant: Shorty (Hester Chillingworth)

Live Performances by: Ron Athey, Katy Baird, Rocio Boliver, Tim Bromage, Brian Catling, Oozing Gloop, Nando Messias, Jade Montserrat, Daniel Oliver, Tammy Reynolds, Victoria Sin and Aaron Williamson.

Silent Auction artworks, objects and experiences from: Katherine Araniello, Oreet Ashery, Franko B, Anne Bean, Season Butler, Shaun Caton, Augusto Corrieri, Robert Daniels, Karen Finley, Hugo Glendinning, Tehching Hsieh, Oleg Kulik, Zoe Laughlin and Selina Thompson.

Please join LADA’s celebrations, enjoy a great night out, and help support one of the world’s leading organisations for Live Art.

All proceeds from the Gala will directly support LADA’s artistic programmes.

“The Live Art Development Agency is invaluable to performance artists because it is creating a historical platform for the medium, and the possibility to see the past, present and future of performance art all at once.” Marina Abramovic, artist and LADA Patron

Silent Auction artworks and objects:

Katherine Araniello: Katherine Araniello original Christmas card set

The Araniello Christmas card was an annual last-minute affair of earlier years. Some of these cards were produced for Greenwich Association of Disabled People, others produced for friends and family. In recent times the Christmas card became a video posted on YouTube.

Generously donated for the Gala in Katherine’s memory by her partner Tracey Jannaway.

Katherine Araniello (1965-2019) was a London based performance artist and film maker. LADA worked with Katherine on performances, workshops, and publications including the book and DVD The Dinner Party Revisited in 2015. Katherine was a LADA Board member.

Katherine Araniello Xmas Cards

Oreet Ashery: Metal needles from ‘Passing through Metal’

A set of two metal needles with pickup mics and a woolly knitted black snake/cable. One of forty sets of needles from Passing through Metal, a collaboration with Lilith Performance Studio in Malmo in 2017 in which forty local knitters and the Doom / Sludge Metal band Pyramido united in an apocalyptic metal poetry performance.

Oreet Ashery is a London based interdisciplinary artist. LADA has worked with Oreet on performances, presentations, workshops, bursaries and films and published the DVD of her Party for Freedom project in 2013.

Oreet Ashery

Franko B: Untitled

“In recent times I find suitcases / bags interesting to work with. In general it’s what we use to carry our things from one place to another, sometime in times of distress. I decided to apply crosses and heart symbols as metaphors for the protection and love that we carry with us and are sometimes looking for as we travel and in our lives.” Franko B

Franko B is a London based artist working in performance, sculpture, drawing and installation. LADA has worked with Franko on performances, bursaries, screenings and publications, and published his memoir Because of Love: Franko B’s Story in 2018.

Franko 1

Gary Carter: From the collection of Mr Pearl

A bustier corset designed and made by Pearl, of laser fabric donated by Christian Lacroix, decorated with sequins, made for the singer Natalie Gamsu. This is a rare item from an exquisite collection of costumes designed and made by the legendary costume and corset maker Mr Pearl for Gary Carter’s 2005 production THE MASQUE OF WATER.

Gary Carter is an Amsterdam based writer, actor, performance maker and television executive. LADA has worked with Gary Carter on the Arthole Artist’s Award, a new patronage initiative conceived by Joshua Sofaer to plug a hole in art funding. Gary’s son Lucio A C Shala was the first Arthole Patron.

Gary Carter, A bustier corset designed and made by Pearl

Shaun Caton: Funnel Head Fetish, Preparatory drawing for performance featuring Funnel Head (unframed), and CULT HOUSE II (unframed)

Three pieces by Shaun Caton. Funnel Head Fetish is a vintage dolls head with applied coloured electrical tape and plastic funnel (removable), used in performances from the 1980s to the present day. Shaun believes the concept originated from seeing the horror film Asylum (1972), in which a body is dismembered, wrapped into parcels, then placed in a freezer, only to regenerate when opened. He remembers the wrapped head breathing audibly in the film and decided to incorporate this image into his performances.

Shaun’s signed preparatory crayon on black paper drawing is for a performance featuring Funnel Head Fetish at Arnolfini Bristol in April 2016. CULT HOUSE II (2016) is a 12.3 x 16.5 cm gouache on black paper drawing.

Shaun Caton is a London based performance artist and painter. LADA has worked with Shaun on presentations, screenings and workshops, including the 2015 DIY workshop SHADOW SECT.

Shaun Caton SetIMG_5396

Karen Finley: Drawings (unframed)

Two drawings especially created for LADA’s gala. Live Art, ink on St. Armands paper from Montreal (9×20 inches), and Brexit, ink on Strathmore Grey mixed media paper from Neenah, Wisconsin (9×12 inches).

Karen Finley is a New York based performance artist and writer. LADA has worked with Karen on a lecture performance as part of Performing Studies international: Performing Rights in 2006.

Karen Finley

Tehching Hsieh: Sketch of a Foot and a Box (2018) (unframed)

“Doing art freely, without cutting off toes to fit into any concept.” Tehching Hsieh

Tehching Hsieh is a New York based performance artist. LADA has worked with Tehching on presentations, screenings and publications and published the monograph Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh with MIT Press. Tehching is a LADA Patron.

Tehching Tshieh

Oleg Kulik: Missionary – photograph and letter (unframed)

A 40 x 56 cm photographic print, Missionary, taken in Peschanaya Street, Moscow in 1995 from the project Art Belongs to People-II. The photograph will be accompanied by a letter from Oleg Kulik to the lucky bidder. This action was dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi, a man who once prayed to the birds, and thus started communication with another biological species at the highest confessional level. Kulik was absolving live carps in ice-cold water for half an hour. After the action the carps were returned to a food store to be sold. Kulik resembled a fish after this action. He panted and could not say a word. Whether or not the carps became ‘more pure’ after the absolution procedure is unclear, and likewise Kulik’s religious persuasion.

Oleg Kulik is a Moscow based artist. LADA has worked with Oleg on films and presented Armadillo for your Show as the opening performance of our Live Culture programme at Tate Modern in 2003.

Oleg Kulik PhotoIMG_5443

Selina Thompson: Race Cards – the very first pack

The very first pack of Race Cards was written in 12 hours in Glasgow for Selina’s first ever presentation of the work at Buzzcut in 2015 – this is a chance to own the first script of the first version of the work, of which only one exists in the world.

Selina Thompson is a Birmingham based artist and performer. LADA has worked with Selina on presentations, publications and residencies, and she is currently LADA Thinker in Residence for Restock, Rethink, Reflect Five: Managing The Radical.

Selina Thompson 3

Silent Auction experiences:

Anne Bean
Between Us

An experience that will only be envisaged when you become part of it.

Anne Bean is a London based artist who works in performance, installation, sculpture and sound art. LADA has worked with Anne Bean on workshops, presentations, performances and publications, and published Anne Bean: Self Etc. in our Intellect Live book series in 2018. Anne is a LADA Patron.

Image credit: the artist.

Anne Bean, Shut Me Gently

British Library
Behind-the-scenes tour of the British Library

A peek beyond the Reading Rooms and public areas. The visit will include a journey to the basements deep below the piazza; a look around the sound archive studios; and a chance to get up-close and personal with selected treasures from the collection, including the poetry of Byron and Keats in their own hands, the manuscripts of Oscar Wilde, and a book inlaid with a lock of Mary Shelley’s hair.

LADA collaborates with the British Library on the documentation and archiving of performance events and artists, and is a partner on the Live Art Web Collection.

Image credit: British Library

British Library

Season Butler
A writing workshop with Season Butler

This workshop gives you space to mine your inner library of stories to find what kind of narrative really lights you up. You’ll then play with performative and avant-garde techniques to spin an old tale through the vortex of your own experience and tastes to create a story of your very own for voice, page or stage.

Season Butler is a writer and performer based between London and Berlin. LADA has worked with Season on performances, presentations and workshops. Season also worked at LADA from 2010 to 2011.

Image credit: Christa Holka

Season Butler, Christa Holka

Augusto Corrieri
A bespoke lesson in sleight-of-hand magic and misdirection

This is chance to learn some sleight-of-hand magic from award winning magician and theatre artist Augusto Corrieri (aka Vincent Gambini). The one-to-one tutorial will be tailored to you, and cover basic principles of performance magic (for example, making small objects disappear, card tricks, etc). You will be able to perform an amazing magical feat by the end of the lesson.

Augusto Corrieri is a Sussex based artist, writer and magician. LADA worked with Augusto on the Performance Matters creative research project from 2009 to 2012.

Image credit: Hugo Glendining

Augusto Corrieri

Robert Daniels
Make your own Tiny Live Art with Robert Daniels

Spend a day with Robert making your own miniature model of your favourite artist and their work. A chance to play and work with new materials and media, and honour your Live Art hero. The model will be yours to keep, gift or exhibit.

Robert Daniels is a Chichester based interdisciplinary artist and teacher. As part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations in 2019, LADA worked with Robert on Tiny Live Art (Development Agency) – 20 works for 20 years –a series of limited editions using miniature gures and dioramas to create tiny sculptures of iconic performances.

Image credit: the artist

Robert Daniels, Tiny Live Art

Hugo Glendinning
A photo opportunity with Hugo Glendinning

A photo session with the leading performance and visual art photographer Hugo Glendinning.

Hugo Glendinning is a London based photographer andlm maker. LADA has worked with Hugo on presentations, publications and screenings including Uncertain Fragments, Outside Again and Spirit Labour.

Image credit: the artist

Hugo Glendinning

Zoe Laughlin
Performing materials making session
with Zoe Laughlin at the Institute of Making

A tour of the Institute of Making and a making session with the materials scientist and artist Zoe Laughlin all rolled into one.

Zoe Laughlin is a London based artist, maker and materials expert, and the co-founder and Director of the Institute of Making at University College London. LADA has worked with Zoe on presentations and projects including KAPUTT: The Academy of Destruction at Tate Exchange in 2017.

Image credit: the artist

Zoe Laughlin, Institute of Making

Phytology
A tour of Phytology

A tour of Phytology, based at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, including a bespoke introduction to medicinal plant foraging and sample products from the Mobile Apothecary (fresh herbal skin balm, winter chest rub and fresh mouthwash).

Phytology are LADA’s neighbours in Bethnal Green, were participants in our 2018 Festive Fair, and partners on LADA’s 2019 Garrett Centre Commission, Earthlings, by Hari Byles and Katherine McMahon.

Image credit: Michael Smythe

Phytology

A Live Art Gala 2019

A Live Art Gala 2019

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