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Opportunities

LADA offers artistic and professional development opportunities for artists, curators, Higher Education and the Live Art infrastructure.

Current Opportunities

Find out about current and ongoing opportunities with LADA.

Desk Scheme – Open Call Closed

We are re-launching our subsidised Desk Scheme for artists, producers, curators, researchers and writers

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Live Art UK

A national network of organisations engaged with all aspects of the development of Live Art in the UK

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Talking Shop

Open advice sessions and networking opportunities for young artists and recent graduates

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Ongoing

Talks for Higher Education

Bespoke talks for students at all levels

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We recognise that the interdisciplinary practices of Live Art ask for new approaches to artistic and professional development.

Through our flagship DIY programme, project-based commissions, and wide range of research residencies, mentoring and educational opportunities, LADA responds to the evolving needs and expectations of artists, arts workers, and academics at all stages of their careers.

From DIY15: How the Fuck..? lead by Katherine Araniello and Teresa Albor (picture by Alex Eisenberg)

DIY

Unusual professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists

DIY

DIY

Unusual professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists

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DIY 2020: TINK + EFI – Wrap Live: exploring sensory underload for neurodivergent artists

DIY

Taking an experimental journey of gentle sensory under-load, progressively leading up to observing or participating in a full body wrap.

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DIY 2020: Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin & Jamila Johnson-Small/SERAFINE1369 – A VAST AND INCIDENTAL KIND OF HOLDING

DIY

Conversations on expanded multi-dimensional ideas of anatomy, divination, geography and language, seeking to bring transformational movement to ideas of trauma and healing as they are shaped by oppressive systems and given form in our bodies

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DIY 2020 – Ben Walters: DIY Hope Machines with Doctor Duckie

DIY

Artistic practice as queer civics: a series of online encounters about making better worlds through lived experience, material support, fun, and mutation.

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Links and Resources for Artists

With Artsadmin, we have compiled a series of links and resources for artists, which we think are useful to artists working in Live Art and contemporary performance in the UK. These FAQs, links and lists of organisations and venues are intended as a starting point for your research and project development.

‘Nothing I’ve ever done or will ever do again will compare to these two days. It’s over for me now. This opened me up to what a workshop could be.’
Participant in How the fuck…?, Katherine Araniello and Teresa Albor’s DIY for DIY 15 (2018)

Banner image credit: From DIY11: 2014 - Dickie Beau's House of Strange Loops (image courtesy of the artist)

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