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.

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.

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.

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

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 evening featuring the legendary performance artist, photographer and dominatrix Sheree Rose.

The Naseem Khan Memorial Lecture 2020

A performance lecture by Swiss artist Andrea Saemann

Part reading-group, part-film club, and part-social, Gut-Reactions returns for its newest series of Study Room Sessions at LADA.

An event considering current social issues and alternative ways that artistic practices can offer with regard to creating new structures for relating and coexisting.

A day of provocations and discussions by Black, Asian and/or Minority Ethnic artists, leaders, academics and organisations, taking place in Manchester.

As part of the Study Room Residency undertaken by artist and researcher Jude Browning, the live event looks at notions of female vocality and expectations of formal public address and will begin with a new performance by Amelia Barratt.

One of two events discussing the ways that solidarity can be organised and performed through the arts.

An evening in which some of LADA icons will present illustrated talks about their own icons from popular culture

An evening exploring the Live Art scenes in Switzerland.

An event reflecting on new pedagogical models for performance art.

An evening event in which first recipient Marcia Farquhar, hands over the baton to the second recipient, Stacy Makishi

A performance lecture by Swiss based Brazilian artist Ivy Monteiro

Dr Duckie – aka Ben Walters – in a public explanation of his just-completed PhD on Duckie in the Community

Join us for a day of talks, conversations, actions and sharing at/across/against borders.

A rare UK appearance by Skip Arnold, a significant artist who works primarily in public, durational and/or behavioural actions and “activities”.

We invite you to share ideas about how we might build for future struggles to free art and artists from their dependency on the proceeds of toxic capitalism.

Something Other Live is a night of experimental writing and performance, in support of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.

Please join us for an evening with a group of extraordinary artists unpicking ideas about women, art and age.

An evening screening clips from TV programmes featuring artists from the worlds of performance art and Live Art

As part of their 20th anniversary, the Bristol Art Library is coming on tour to LADA’s Study Room

Presenting a selection of performance videos, curated by CUNTemporary as part of EcoFutures festival

An evening with two artists whose decolonial, queer and anti-capitalist performance practices fiercely trouble the boundaries of the known.

A look at a range of approaches to documenting performative and participatory work

We are hosting LoveBethnalGreen’s first networking breakfast of the year

An evening exploring the art of the Access All Areas Performance Company

Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes introduce and share their collaborative art practice

A conversation between artist and LADA Patron Tehching Hsieh and artist Li-E Chen

A perambulating dance taking place between Guildford, England and Cloughjordan, Ireland

Addressing the lack of visibility for learning disabled and autistic artists within Live Art

A live performance installation in men’s toilets, devised and performed by Orion

A day looking at dyspraxia, performance art, neurodiversity, time travel and the forthcoming neurodivergent dysutopia

An illustrated talk about a series of works that examine loneliness in the context of creativity

Reading and discussion session about performance, philosophy and the TF18 provocation, Fractured Bodies

A gathering as part of Aine Phillips residency at LADA

Artists present their strategies for survival, sharing what they have found works, what doesn’t and how things can be better

An evening to discuss Live Art, kids, young people, non-binary identities and non-conformist families

An evening about, with, and for Live Art and animals

You are invited to be part of a collective planting, remembering and laying down of roots at The Garrett Centre

An overview of the recent changes to Arts Council grants for artists

A gathering about a project facilitating exchanges between socially engaged artists in UK and Taiwan