“… Money talks, Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, oho”

“We will each immerse ourselves in a nearby forest and co-generate shared experiences through a series of synchronous somatic exercises and collective reading online. These activities will be the departure point for writing ghost stories and erotica.”

Autobiographical sessions for postcolonial diaspora. Bodies as places of legacy; voice as ancestral calling; sharing stories; rituals; being vulnerable together.

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

A Way Away uses the mode of correspondence course to explore ideas around distance – spatial and temporal, physical and social, imagined and real.

A workshop aimed at fans and future fans of the late great Katherine Araniello, a queer, crip, red-headed firebrand whose work lives on to disturb and tantalize in equal measure.

An online residency queerying ‘The politics of Intimacy’ within our bodies and lives as well as in our creative practice/s

Restless Study will be a space for people to study which privileges restlessness and distraction over focus and concentration. We will generate, manipulate and circulate objects of study, including text, conversation, image, action, movement, and beyond. We will throw off the shackles of goal-oriented education to reclaim study as a vital, liberatory mode of being in dialogue with others!

Leonie and Ishwari will be working to explore alternative processes of mapping time and landscape, moving away from ideas of linearity and colonial legacies of demarcation. Focussing on process rather than production, they will do this using plant-based darkroom printing, fermentation and chorus interventions.

A workshop for artists who lost projects in 2020, sharing what we have lost, learned and gained, creating mourning rituals and (re)discovering our individual and collective resources.

An intimate online pleasure LAB for disabled queers exploring Kink as an artistic tool for self-care.

Interested in using Live Art to create lo-fi short films exploring mental health and queer culture?

Make like teenagers and build the Discord fanfiction version of Live Art from your bedroom, under the mentorship of real-life Discord experts (teenagers).

A list of the artist development workshops being run as part of DIY 2020.

That’s Governance! invites participants to interrogate conditions of governance, and propose, through roleplay, a non-human candidate for Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)’s Board of Trustees.

We are interested in the things that make us afraid and in the complex relationship that people have with fear. We intend to bring a group of artists together to create a performance whose only purpose is to be frightening.  

White Vinegar Workshop revolves around the quote from leading New York artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles “After the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?”.

A six-week collectively-generated course on and in Fat Performance for fat people.

Apply to participate in DIY 2020; workshops developed and lead BY artists, FOR artists

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

This DIY project uses performance informed by science fiction, magic, ritual and idiocy to explore how our relationship to the public realm has changed and will continue to change because of COVID-19.

A 3-day remote retreat for six producers, curators and arts administrators who have had to undo their present and future work due to COVID-19. This DIY is run in partnership with ArtHouse Jersey

We are seeking proposals for online performance re-enactments or instruction pieces that can be done within the environment/s you are in during lockdown.

We are seeking proposals from artists to hold stalls offering art, experiences, gifts and ideas as part of our online Summer Fete.

CALL OUT for folx that are thinking & making the future from anywhere in the world.

In the first of a series of commissions we will be offering over the coming weeks, we are interested in exploring collaborative online residencies.

Professional development projects – BY artists FOR artists – across the UK.

LADA is collaborating with Performistanbul on an artistic development programme offering a female identifying performance artist a funded project development workshop and residency.

We are seeking recommendations for material to include in the Live Art Almanac Volume 6, to be published by the Live Art Development Agency in 2020.

Call for artists based in Switzerland to undertake funded research residencies at LADA.

An open call to participate in a bi-monthly Working Group and series of gatherings led by Fox Irving. Deadline for proposals is 20 December 2019.

A call for proposals for a bursary of £2,000 to an artist aged under 25 to imagine the future they’d like to see. Deadline Friday 7 February 2020.

LADA is delighted to offer new places on our subsidised project/desk/research space.

Two awards of £5,000 each for unapologetically radical and politicised artists who work in Live Art and identify as disabled people.

A list of frequently asked questions covering all aspects of the DIY application process