Throughout 2015 and 2016 LADA is collaborating with Heart of Glass in St Helens to bring a programme of Live Art activity to the town. As part of this programme we’re delighted to have invited the artists Joshua Sofaer and Ursula Martinez to revisit two hugely successful DIYs from previous years of DIY to be restaged and reconceived in St Helens.
Joshua Sofaer and Karen Christopher
This Will Never Happen (St Helens)
Devising impossible ideas for St Helens
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Wednesday 21st October, Wednesday 28th October, Wednesday 4th November, Wednesday 11th November, Saturday 21st November
Ursula Martinez
Don’t wait tables (St Helens)
Don’t wait tables – make an act!
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Thursday 19 – Friday 20 November
The following DIY’s are now full:
Adam James
Maps to Build Power (with Create, Dublin)
Constructing a fictional people to remap a forgotten city.
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Thursday 3 – Saturday 5 September
Agency for Agency
Bringing in the Directions (with Divergency, hÅb + STUN, Manchester)
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Live Art and ritual – a documented exploration
Saturday 19 September
Alexandrina Hemsley
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Present Histories (with Chelsea Theatre, London)
A conversational space for navigating historical distance and embodied nearness
Friday 27 – Sunday 29 November at the British Museum and Chelsea Theatre
Catherine Long and Brian Lobel
Working (It) Out with Catherine and Brian (London)
Fitness for YOU! No really; YOU! We want YOU to work out with us
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
The first two weeks of October, London
Daniel Oliver
Awkwoods: A Rural Retreat (London)
Experimental adventures in awkward participatory performance
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Friday 18 – Sunday 20 September
Eilidh MacAskill and Rosana Cade
Sex and Children (with National Theatre Studio, London)
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Radical queer Live Art for young audiences
Tuesday 27 – Friday 30 October
Geraldine Pilgrim
Going Home (with Abandon Normal Devices, Cumbria)
A developmental exercise exploring the concept of returning to what one understands as “home”
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Saturday 12 – Sunday 20 September
Katherine Araniello
I Can’t Dance (with Unlimited and Colchester Arts Centre)
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Art is hard. A day of participatory physical activity, impossible for everyone but accessible to all. Tuesday 15 September
Katie Etheridge and Simon Persighetti
University of DIY (with Contact, Manchester)
Can you start a University of Live Art in your front room, garden shed or local pub?
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Tuesday 24 – Friday 27 November
Lucy Hutson and Martin O’Brien
I Don’t Want a Telly But I Bet I could Wrestle it Out of Your Hands (with Heart of Glass, St Helens)
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
A Black Friday extravaganza
Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November
Marcia Farquhar
Jukeboxing (with Folkestone Fringe and Sound & Music, Folkestone )
Putting the punk back into DIY – capturing the noise of the past and abandoning it to the (‘no’) future
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September
Owen G. Parry
Fans of Live Art (with Home Live Art, London and Whitechapel Studios)
Fanaticize over a live art figure, document, group, movement or practice of your hearts desire!
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Friday 25 – Sunday 27 September
Ria Hartley and Selina Thompson
Spaces of Radical Agency (with Compass Live Art, Yorkshire)
A two day retreat exploring how we may transform the ‘safe space’ into a place for radical change
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Friday 14 – Sunday 16 August
Shaun Caton
SHADOW SECT (London)
An opportunity to explore ideas of experimental drawing and ‘shadow’ work in ritualistic performance
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Saturday 19 September and dates in October tbc
Simon Farid
Nothing To See Here (with N( )rth Contemporary Arts Warrington)
Interrogating covert performance practices
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Friday 9 – Saturday 10 October
Tania El Khoury and Abigail Conway
FAF (with Norwich Arts Centre)
An armed resistance training for women
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Dates tbc
They Are Here
BANK (with Artsadmin, London and Birmingham)
A collective venture to understand financial systems better, to make these systems more visible, and to devise strategies to operate better within and alongside these systems
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Saturday 18 July – Artsadmin, London, Saturday 5 September – Birmingham, Saturday 24 October – London, Saturday 14 November – London
Tim Bromage
Excursions: Creative writing for perfomance (with National Theatre Studio, London)
A week long workshop, creating new writing for performance
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Tuesday 11 – Friday 14 August
Zierle & Carter and Christina Georgiou
Eyes wide open: Unearthing Fragments of the Future (with Live at LICA, North England)
A remote secret location – a group of explorers investigating the myriad of layers that linger and surface – moving between the boundaries of the imagined and reality – infused
strongly by their curiosity for the unknown
THIS DIY IS NOW FULL
Saturday 8 – Wednesday 13 August
DIY 12 is part of the Collab Arts Partnership Programme co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Banner image credit:
Katherine Araniello – I Can’t Dance
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