All Events

Dee Jumbie Dance: A Resurrection Book Launch

22 Sep 2023

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

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Soil Voices

12 Aug 2023 - 13 Aug 2023

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.

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Call When You Reach

28 Jul 2023

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

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Manifesto Zine Workshop: the Performance of Birth

13 Jul 2023

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.

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BYOBaby Live Art Workshop

06 Jul 2023

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.

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LADA Screens Double Bill: HBAC Performance Manifesto

26 Jun 2023 - 26 Jul 2023

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.

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LADA Screens Double Bill: GOO:GA

26 Jun 2023 - 26 Jul 2023

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.

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ecologies of care – an invitation to personal & collective (R)evolution

25 May 2023

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

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Taroni-Cividin: Performance, Video, Expanded Cinema (1977-1984) – Book Launch

20 Apr 2023

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

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Intersect: Kelvin Atmadibrata in conversation with selina bonelli

29 Mar 2023

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.

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Collective Action: Wikipedia edit-a-thon with Clare Qualmann

16 Mar 2023

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

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Intersect: An oracular practice sharing by SERAFINE1369 and Daniella Valz Gen

03 Mar 2023

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.

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Intersect with: Jelili Atiku

18 Sep 2022

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.

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Unframing Photography – Manuel Vason Book Launch

03 Sep 2022

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

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LADA Screens: Miranda Whall

04 Jul 2022 - 04 Aug 2022

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

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Intersect with: Isaiah Lopaz

14 Jun 2022

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

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[CANCELLED] Intersect with: Imani Mason Jordan

17 May 2022

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

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Intersect with: Madinah Farhannah Thompson

19 Apr 2022

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

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Live Art Sector Research Launch

08 Oct 2021

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

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Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles

01 May 2021

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

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‘Playing With Fire’ Live Reading

24 Apr 2021

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

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2nd Annual Live Art Lecture by Morgan Quaintance

21 Apr 2021

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.

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You Have A Date: Book Launch of A Good Love Story

14 Feb 2021

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

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LADA Screens: Alisa Oleva – Online Screening

01 Feb 2021 - 31 Mar 2021

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’.

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In Other Words – Book Club

09 Dec 2020

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

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LADA Screens: Rosalind Fowler and Fourthland – Online Screening

01 Dec 2020 - 29 Jan 2021

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.

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Mishandled Archive: Book Launch and Celebration

11 Nov 2020

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. 

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PerformingBorders2020 ‘There is no Time’

25 Oct 2020

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

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PerformingBorders2020 ‘Lavender Man’ Screening

24 Oct 2020

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

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PerformingBorders2020 ‘Re:Seeding in correspondence’ Screening

23 Oct 2020

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

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performingbordersLIVE20 | Unbordering

23 Oct 2020 - 25 Oct 2020

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

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LADA Screens: Barby Asante – Online Screening

13 Oct 2020 - 25 Nov 2020

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.

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LADA’s Summer Programme: Week 6

13 Jul 2020 - 20 Jul 2020

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

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LADA’s Summer Programme: Week 5

06 Jul 2020 - 13 Jul 2020

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

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LADA’s Summer Programme: Week 4

29 Jun 2020 - 06 Jul 2020

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.

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LADA’s Summer Programme: Week 3

22 Jun 2020 - 29 Jun 2020

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

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Penetration in Live Art and Video: a lecture by Ron Athey

18 Jun 2020

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

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LADA’s Summer Programme: Week 2

15 Jun 2020 - 22 Jun 2020

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

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LADA’s Summer Programme: Week 1

08 Jun 2020 - 15 Jun 2020

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

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LADA’s Summer Programme 2020

08 Jun 2020 - 19 Jul 2020

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

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With For About 2020

27 May 2020 - 17 Jun 2020

A slow conference for a fast evolving crisis.

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Something Other Live – On Circularity

05 May 2020 - 12 May 2020

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.

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[POSTPONED] Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer – Common Salt

23 Apr 2020

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

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[POSTPONED] Maïté Chénière – artist presentation

14 Apr 2020

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.

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[POSTPONED] Live Art Now 2020

06 Apr 2020

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.

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LADA Screens: Tim Bromage – Online Screening

26 Mar 2020 - 29 May 2020

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

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