DIT: 2026
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- 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 (2002-2020). We know that DIY has always been about collective movements, but now, more than ever, we need to do it together.
Sweætshops® and Kwasu Tembo – Prove Your Human
Prove Your Human is 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 – spoken and written – for several days.
We’re going to the other side.
Follow the instructions and be picked up in a playful ‘alien abduction’ process, and explore themes of online misinformation in collective sigil creation and land-marking. The retreat focuses on gesture, emotion, coincidence and spooky action.
This DIT is run in partnership with Art Gene x Lancaster Arts.
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Image Sweætshops® and Kwasu Tembo
Tosin Adegoke, Amina Khayyam, Husam Ibrahim – The Body at Sea
This two-day experimental laboratory investigates whether the body can serve as a site to engage with archival absences – specifically with the erased histories of South Asian maritime labourers, historically referred to as lascars. The lab will embody the archive with rhythmic repetition, collective listening and performance as modes of inquiry to sit with historical residue and archival absence. As migrant narratives continue to be flattened into data and crisis rhetoric, this lab experiments with a counter-methodology.
This DIT is run in partnership with Artsadmin x Future Ritual.
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Three Lascars. Credit National Maritime Museum
Paula Varjack – The LABUBU EFFECT: Performing Retail, Hype and the Cult of the Collectable
This three-day workshop investigates contemporary cultures of consumerism – from hype drops and independent boutiques, to resale markets and ‘cute’ collectable unboxing TikToks – as sites of live performance.
We are living in a time of extreme financial precarity and increasingly rapid micro-trends. Together we will explore how one informs the other, and how consumerism becomes an act of coping, comforting and creating a (false) sense of belonging.
This DIT is run in partnership with Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts x Marlborough Productions.
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Image by Ben Gregory
Gillie Kleiman – Disciplined
We often talk about Live Art and experimental performance as not belonging to any discipline. Nonetheless, we are still engaged as a field in various infrastructures and frameworks belonging to one or more ‘disciplines’ of artistic practice. Within the context of BUZZCUT festival, we will explore ways in which relating to existing disciplines can be a curse and an opportunity.
This DIT is run in partnership with BUZZCUT x Take Me Somewhere.
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Gillie Kleiman and Greg Wohead, Familiar. Image Manuel Vason
Rosana Cade and Moa Johansson – Make FUNding FUN again: Optimistic and FUN FUNding solutions for mid-career rejects
This workshop explores playful, collective-focused alternatives to art FUNding systems in the UK. Applying for ACE can feel like a lottery, but with more work and nowhere near as much FUN.
As an urgent response to the dire situation, we want to explore how we can create new artist-led structures for FUNding/mutual investment. We want to generate cash and feelings of optimism, agency and collective possibility.
This DIT is run in partnership with Colchester Arts Centre x Home Live Art.
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Rosana Cade and Moa Johansson. Image Ray Gammon and Moa Johansson
Tom Marshman - We Showgirls are Offline: A Queer Double Act for the Digital Age
This playful three-day offline lab creates space to slow down, log off and reconnect – with ourselves and each other. Across lazy brunches and tea parties, we will share stories of desire, shame, hedonism, sexuality, vanity, visibility and disappearance. We will explore how queer lives move between online and offline worlds, and how our digital selves perform alongside our live bodies.
This DIT is run in partnership with Duckie x Metal.
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Tom Marshman, Tom's Tea Party at Proud with Culture Weston. Image Mark Gray
Sym Stellium - Our Bodies Are Flooded With Entangled Histories
Sym Stellium will host 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, we will feel through the city’s entanglements with imperialism and colonialism – and how our individual dis/connection to these spaces can inform our artistic practices and attempts toward liberation and collectivity.
This DIT is run in partnership with Fierce Festival x performance, possession + automation.
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Sym Stellium. Image Ayesha Jones
Johnny Autin and Hannah Woodliffe - Making Weather: Artist-to-Artist Labs on Climate, Care and Young Audiences
Artists working with young people face urgent demands: climate grief, cost-of-living pressures, stretched school capacity, and a need for accessible, outdoor spaces and low-resource formats. Many of us are tackling these alone. Making Weather is a process-led, peer learning lab for 12 artists to co-develop practical, low-tech methods for making ecological performance for and with children and young people.
This DIT is run in partnership with GroundWork Gallery x Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
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Autin Dance Theatre. Image courtesy of the artist
Jo Hellier – Birth the Musical
Birth the Musical will explore the weird and world-bending metamorphosis into parenthood. It is a workshop for birthers to process the physical sensation and phenomenon of pregnancy – as body horror, a love story and an identity crisis all rolled into one.
It will discuss the social conditioning around pregnancy and birth – the ‘rules’, advice and culture that shape how we expect to perform it. What happens when we unpick those cultural scripts and write (or sing) our own?
This DIT is run in partnership with hÅb x Lowry.
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Jo Hellier, background image from Louise Ahl's Skunk Without K is Sun
Stacy Makishi - Campfire Disco!
Three months ago, Stacy died. Stopped breathing.
In the ambulance, shethought, what would she regret not doing if shedied?
Answer: Campfire Disco!
A 3 day residential led by Stacy Makishi at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire Scotland, offering time to turn towards each other; make good and bad art; laugh, cry, swear, pray, bear witness; dance badly; forgive; make our curiosity larger than our fear; remember that there’s something larger than ourselves.
This DIT is run in partnership with Scottish Sculpture Workshop x Take Me Somewhere.
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Stacy Makishi, Walking Each Other Home as part of Home Live Art’s Giddy Up, Hastings 2025. Image Alice Denny
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DIT 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
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 moreFAQs for Participating Artists
A list of frequently asked questions covering all aspects of the DIT application process
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 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: 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: 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: 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 more