Find out about current and ongoing opportunities with LADA.
We are re-launching our subsidised Desk Scheme for artists, producers, curators, researchers and writers
Read moreTwo 6 month Study Room residencies for Black scholars and artists
Read moreA national network of organisations engaged with all aspects of the development of Live Art in the UK
Read moreOpen advice sessions and networking opportunities for young artists and recent graduates
Read moreThrough 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)
Unusual professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists
Taking an experimental journey of gentle sensory under-load, progressively leading up to observing or participating in a full body wrap.
Read moreConversations 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
Read moreArtistic practice as queer civics: a series of online encounters about making better worlds through lived experience, material support, fun, and mutation.
Read moreWith 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.’
Banner image credit: From DIY11: 2014 - Dickie Beau's House of Strange Loops (image courtesy of the artist)