Celebrate the launch of Dee Jumbie Dance: A Resurrection. A gathering to invoke and honour the ancestors.

Artist and Aberystwyth University lecturer Miranda Whall will be live streaming a 24-hour performance from a pre-prepared self-dug 2ft ditch to vocalise a live and continuous numerical data stream emitted from a newly installed sensor network.

Call When You Reach explores racial trauma, in an effort to overcome the burden and weight of whiteness as it impacts Black bodies.

Manifesto Zine Workshop: the Performance of Birth is designed for participants to manually make a zine expressing their views on birth as a performative act.

The BYOBaby Live Art Workshop, embraces the themes of interruption, levity, unruliness, and autobiography as participants will engage in a series of multi-disciplinary exercises and prompts drawn from Ballou’s own practice and research into performance-making.

LADA is delighted to present this double bill on motherhood, two inspiring online screenings showcasing the journey into motherhood from conception, pregnancy and act of birthing. Featuring HBAC Performance Manifesto and GOO:GA.

LADA is delighted to present this double bill on motherhood, two inspiring online screenings showcasing the journey into motherhood from conception, pregnancy and act of birthing. Featuring HBAC Performance Manifesto and GOO:GA.

An online gathering with ecologies of care, offering insights and best practices into self care for artists and arts workers across the sector.

An in-person gathering at LADA  celebrating the launch of Taroni-Cividin: Performance, Video, Expanded Cinema (1977-1984)

An in-person gathering at LADA  featuring Kelvin Atmadibrata in conversation with selina bonelli. This event is part of LADA’s Intersect series and is curated by performancespace.

Drop in to an all-day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, feminism, and the arts. Beginner Wikipedians encouraged!

An in-person gathering at LADA  featuring Jamila Johnson-Small in conversation with Daniela Valz Gen. This event is part of LADA’s Intersect series and is curated by performancespace.

An in-person gathering at Lewisham Art House, featuring the artist Jelili Atiku. This event is part of LADA’s Intersect series, and the 2022 Deptford X Festival.

An online book launch and discussion marking the publication Unframing Photography by Manuel Vason.

online launch of Miranda Whall’s Crossed Paths – Scots Pine (2022)

The next event of LADA’s Intersect series, an online gathering with the artist Isaiah Lopaz

Join us for a hybrid gathering with interdisciplinary artist and writer Imani Mason Jordan, as part of LADA’s Intersect series.

The first event of LADA’s Intersect series, an online gathering with the artist Madinah Farhannah Thompson. 

An online launch of the Live Art Sector Research – A Report Mapping the UK Live Art Sector.

An online book launch and discussion marking the publication of the 6th issue of NS*, “Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles”.

A live reading of peer to peer survivor writing organised by the artist Jet Moon.

The Live Art Development Agency and Queen Mary University of London are pleased to announce that the 2nd Annual Live Art Lecture 2021 will be presented online by the critic and artist Morgan Quaintance.

An online Valentine’s Day launch of A Good Love Story by Sibylle Peters

LADA is delighted to present the online screening of Walking Home, Alisa Oleva’s first film, created in the context of Performistanbul’s residency programme for performance artists on theme of ‘home’.

A special online book club discussing the recently released publication In Other Words, exploring marginalisation in the UK.  

A screening of BREADROCK, I feel like doing this a film by artist collective Fourthland (Isik Sayarer and Eva Knutsdotter) and artist and filmmaker Rosalind Fowler, originally created alongside a sculptural installation for PEER.

An online event to celebrate the launch of artist and writer Tara Fatehi Irani’s new book Mishandled Archive, published by LADA. Be ready for some dressing up and shaking shoulders. 

led by Joon Lynn Goh An open conversation with performingbordersLIVE20 artists and writers in residence (Àníké Bello, Jade Foster, Istanbul Queer Art Collective, Jade Montserrat and The White Pube). Not fully emergent from the global pandemic, what have we as individuals, and the respective communities that we are part of, learnt about time?  Sunday 25 October, 2.30pm-4pm

PerformingBorders2020 ‘Lavender Man’ screening by Tania El Khoury in collaboration with Mohamad Ali “Dali” Agrebi

PerformingBorders2020 ‘Re:Seeding in correspondence’ screening by Jade Montserrat and Webb-Ellis.

A three-day gathering, bringing all the performingbordersLIVE20 together to reimagine borders-free collaborative Live Art practices.

A screening of A Declaration of Independence, a film documenting the first iteration of A Declaration of Independence in June 2018 at LADA, performed by Selina Rose, Paula Pinho Martins Nacif, Chloe Filani, Marwa Belghazi, Buki Bayode, Foluke Taylor, and Aisha Mohammed.

A series of film and digital works by Krishna Istha, River Lin, La Ribot, Robin Deacon and Nicola Fornoni.

A series of film and digital works by Jamie Hale, Lois Weaver, Tehching Hsieh  and Nando Messias, plus LADA Screens Keith Khan.

A series of film, sound and digital works by Ally Poole, Anne Bean, Raimund Hoghe, Curious and Andrew Kötting, and George Chakravarthi, plus LADA Screens Keith Khan.

A series of film and digital works by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, SWAGGA, M21, Tim Etchells and Neil Bartlett.

An online lecture on post-porn and penetration in the work of Ron Athey.

A series of film and digital works by Tehching Hsieh, Amy Sharrocks, The Gluts and Shaun Caton, plus a special lecture by Ron Athey.

An online screening of Z, a new performance film by Keith Khan.

A series of film works by Keith Khan, Noëmi Lakmaier, Adam Patterson and Neil Bartlett.

A season of weekly offerings of screenings, talks, presentations and ‘live’ online events.

A slow conference for a fast evolving crisis.

Something Other Live is a series of experimental writing and performance events by Something Other collective. Join us for an online collective listening on Circularity.

Common Salt is a performance around a table – a ‘show and tell’ – exploring the colonial, geographical history of England and India.

Presentation by Swiss artist Maïté Chénière who will talk about their work in music, performance and queer club culture, and the research they have been undertaking on their residency in LADA’s Study Room.

An evening of presentations by Ansuman Biswas, Anne Bean and Sandra Johnston on the practice of Live Art, and the 2nd Annual Live Art Lecture on the politics of Live Art by Morgan Quaintance.

An online screening of Lords of Misrule, a new film by the artist Tim Bromage.

The Naseem Khan Memorial Lecture 2020