Live Art Bookshop (Revisited): Tara Fatehi’s Mishandled Archive
- Date
- Friday 07 Nov 2025
- Venue
The Garrett Centre
- Timings
7-9pm (doors open 6.30pm)
- Price
- Pre-order Book & Entry Ticket (£14) / Pay What You Can Ticket (£0–£12)
Live Art Bookshop (Revisited) is a new series of events that mark the anniversaries of significant LADA publications. As part of our 2025 rebrand from Unbound to Live Art Bookshop, they celebrate intergenerational dialogue in shaping the future of Live Art.
From 1 January to 31 December 2017, artist and writer Tara Fatehi dispersed fragments of family photographs and documents in public places in the UK, Iran, Switzerland, Kurdistan, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, the Persian Gulf, and in between borders and amongst the clouds. She made a photograph, an annotation, a dance and an Instagram post on the site of each one of the 365 dispersals.
In 2020, LADA published a book of the year-long project with contributions by artists, writers and researchers that expand and reflect on its themes. They include creative engagements with archives, anthropophagy and history, accumulating forgettable objects, fictional kinship, homelessness, and choreographing uncertainty.
To celebrate the 5-year anniversary of Mishandled Archive we will host an evening of reflection from Tara Fatehi and a performance offering from selina bonelli.
Tara Fatehi
Tara Fatehi works across performance, text, voice, and movement. Her work engages ambiguity, mistranslation, playfulness, disjunction, and unfinishedness. Tara has performed at V&A, Southbank Centre, Nottdance Festival, Royal Academy of Arts, Cafe OTO, Montpellier Danse, ICA, Centquatre-Paris. She co-runs From the Lips to the Moon, a performative music-poetry night, with Pouya Ehsaei. She is currently working on Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz with Karen Christopher and Jemima Yong. Her poetry and creative essays have been published in various journals and books. In 2021, she was the first ever artist in residence at the United Nations Archives in Geneva.
selina bonelli
selina bonelli (UK/IT)uses artefacts, unwanted hand me downs and found objects that, through actions, offered memories and process, question meaning, power and our collective realities. In trying to articulate an-other-language that carries the response-ability of the past into the future, they hope to explore how we can withness and connect to voices that are marginalised within ourselves, others, the non-human and more than human.
selina co-delivers SITE, a bi-monthly event that invites artists to come together to generate collaborative site-responsive work at locations of socio-historic, architectural, and ecological interest in rural areas across the UK and Europe. They are an associate artist of ]performance s p a c e [ and a current PhD researcher at Ulster University.
Access Information
Event information:
The book launch will feature a 10 minute reading and the 40 minute screening of two related short films. After this there will be opportunities to chat, buy the book and get it signed. This is a seated event. Various seating options will be available including fold out chairs, office chairs, a sofa and a bench. All are welcome to join in a relaxed space and are free to come and go as they please. The lighting will be fixed with no sudden changes and microphone amplification will be used. There are disposable masks and hand sanitiser available.
LADA space:
The building is wheelchair accessible by lift and provides a wheelchair accessible ground-floor bathroom. All bathrooms are gender inclusive. There is no isolated quiet space inside, but there is a small quiet outdoor area. Some of the art on display in the space includes naked bodies. You can find more information and see photos of the space here. Should you have any particular access requirements, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to offer further support.
Content notes:
Charlotte’s short film, Nuidey, features three naked people moving in slow motion. Please email [email protected] if you would like more information on what to expect.
Please note that this event will be audio recorded.
Banner image credit:
selina bonelli. Image credit Ross Nowlagh
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