Opportunities
Do It Together 2026
19 partners have selected 10 peer-to-peer Do It Together (DIT) projects to take place across the country from April – September, igniting a nation-wide network for process-led experimental practice.
Each DIT project has been designed by different artists. From creative labs, movement workshops, silent retreats and trips to the casino and back, the artists have created co-learning frameworks to inform and inspire other artists’ practices as well as their own, connect and try things out together.
Through an open application process, the lead artists are now looking to gather between 5-15 artists to join them in a collective enquiry, supported by local partners. Whatever form they take, the DIT projects offer alternative approaches to professional development through the perspectives, desires and methodologies of artists rather than institutions.
Knowing that the development of Live Art practice is as much about embodied experiences as training in skills and techniques, the DIT programme is an invitation to share the process.
DIT is a reactivation of LADA’s flagship programme DIY, which ran unique professional development projects by artists for artists from 2002 to 2020.
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DIT 2026: Stacy Makishi – Campfire Disco!
Death & doom is everywhere. The question isn’t whether we’re facing the edge; the question is how do we make it meaningful? The Answer: Campfire Disco!
Read moreDIT 2026: Sweætshops® and Kwasu Tembo – Prove Your Human
A wordless weekend trip exploring altered states of consciousness in opposition to the large-scale language models of artificial intelligence by forgoing the use of language for several days.
Read moreDIT 2026: Tosin Adegoke, Amina Khayyam, Husam Ibrahim – The Body at Sea
Investigating whether the body can serve as a site to engage with archival absences, specifically with the erased histories of lascars, the lab will embody the archive with rhythmic repetition, collective listening and performance.
Read moreDIT 2026: Paula Varjack – The LABUBU EFFECT
This three-day workshop invites 8 artists to investigate contemporary cultures of consumerism — from hype drops to independent boutiques, from resale markets to ‘cute’ collectable unboxing TikTok’s — as sites of live performance.
Read moreDIT 2026: Gillie Kleiman – Disciplined
We often talk about Live Art as not belonging to any discipline. Disciplined will explore ways in which relating to existing disciplines can be a curse and an opportunity.
Read moreDIT 2026: Rosana Cade and Moa Johansson – Make FUNding FUN again
A month-long workshop exploring playful, collective-focused alternatives to art funding systems in the UK as an urgent response to the dire situation.
Read moreDIT 2026: Tom Marshman – We Showgirls Are Offline
In this three-day ‘offline lab’, for queer artists of different ages, will experiment with thematic pairings: performer and avatar, memory and screen, presence and absence.
Read moreDIT 2026: Sym Stellium – Our Bodies Are Flooded With Entangled Histories
Workshops across three days exploring site-specific, intuitive and ritual-based performance practice, held at different sites in Birmingham and using intuition and ritual as starting points.
Read moreDIT 2026: Johnny Autin and Hannah Woodliffe – Making Weather
A process-led, peer learning lab for up to 15 artists to co-develop practical, low-tech methods for making ecological performance for and with children and young people.
Read moreDIT 2026: Jo Hellier – Birth the Musical
A three-day workshop for pregnant people and people who have recently given birth to explore the weird and world-bending metamorphosis into parenthood.
Read morePost-Study: Post-Doctoral Researcher Call Out
We are seeking a post-doctoral researcher to lead and deliver a 9-month project investigating the post-study landscape for undergraduate and postgraduate alumni from London area visual and performance art programmes.
Read moreDesk Scheme Open Call
Our subsidised Desk Scheme for artists, producers, curators, researchers and writers
Read moreArtists in Residence
In March 2025 we welcomed Samra Mayanja, Claudia Palazzo and Symoné as Artists in Residence.
As part of the residency, the artists have been supported by LADA to develop peer-to-peer artist networks through open calls, which led to the Live Art and Gaming Network and the Stock Check peer-to-peer development group.
Banner image credit: From DIY 12 FAF: Female Armed Forces, led by Tania El Khoury and Abigail Conway. Image courtesy of the artists
