Live Art Development Agency, The Garrett Centre, 117A Mansford Street, London, E2 6LX
As part of a series of new developments for the Library of Performing Rights (LPR), we instigated Library of Performing Rights Open events in 2018.
Please join us for the 2019 LPR Open with Dr Duckie – aka Ben Walters – in a public explanation ünt examination of his just-completed PhD with Queen Mary University of London on Duckie in the Community.
Dr Duckie’s Homemade Mutant Hope Machines is about the neoliberal wobble, the technology of queer fun, and doing family differently. It’s about the power of homemade mutant hope machines – ways of thinking, feeling and acting that build better worlds – right here, right now – one day, one show, one dance at a time.
It’s based on findings from Duckie’s community-centric projects – like The Posh Club, The Slaughterhouse Club, Duckie Homosexualist Summer School, Duckie Family and ‘vintage clubbing’ events – plus Ben’s theories around reproductive queer futurity and other brainy stuff.
Artist, activist and LADA Patron Lois Weaver will respond to Ben’s presentation and lead an open discussion.
This is an event for grassroots theatricals, utopian grafters, beauty-skool drop-ins, clever cunts, Claires in the communities, bookish lesbians, sexy scholars, posh people and desperate folk who take about twelve years to finish their PhD.
Written and delivered by Ben Walters. Based on doctoral research carried out by Ben at Queen Mary University of London and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Produced by Simon Casson and Dicky Eton for Duckie, supported by Arts Council England.
More about Ben Walters
More about Duckie
Watch documentation of the 2019 LPR Open with Dr Duckie – aka Ben Walters – in a public explanation ünt examination of his just-completed PhD with Queen Mary University of London on Duckie in the Community.
Banner image credit:
Ben Walters, image Orlando Callegaro
An online book launch and discussion marking the publication of the 6th issue of NS*, “Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles”.
Read moreA live reading of peer to peer survivor writing organised by the artist Jet Moon.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreAn online Valentine’s Day launch of A Good Love Story by Sibylle Peters
Read moreLADA 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’.
Read moreA special online book club discussing the recently released publication In Other Words, exploring marginalisation in the UK.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreAn 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.
Read more