An online residency queerying ‘The politics of Intimacy’ within our bodies and lives as well as in our creative practice/s.
This DIY is run in partnership with ]performance s p a c e [.
The basis for the DIY was a Care Package devised by Raju Rage. Raju has made the Care Package available as a PDF.
Intimacy is often suppressed in times of crisis, within capitalism and its competitiveness, with coronovirus and social isolation and with the everyday dehumanisation of marginalised bodies. This workshop will think-feel through the spaces, opportunities and practices where we can access intimacy on our own terms with agency and how these are expressed for individual and collective well-being.
This workshop will take the form of a ‘care package’, consisting of research, conversations, embodiment and expression. You will receive £100 donation plus a variety of resources and activities to conduct individually during your own time, pace and capacity over an extended time between Dec 2020-Jan 2021. There will be opportunities to gather online, exchange with other residents and to use Performance Space’s IG account (as well as your own social media) to share your process publicly, though you can be as private as you want without pressure of outcome
This DIY will run from 14 December 2020 – 11 January 2021, participants will need to be available for collective online sessions on the evenings of Monday 14 December, Monday 28 January and Monday 11 January.
This DIY is open to all interested in the subject of intimacy at all levels and who are open to exploring this creatively in any format or practice. Centring self-defined marginalised bodies, especially those who do not meet heteronormative white cis centric ableist imposed norms.
To apply follow this link and answer the following questions:
Tell us about yourself… 100 words
What is your interest in this subject and what would you like to explore? 150 words
What can you share on the subject of intimacy? 300 words
What would you like to get out of this workshop? 150 words
Video/audio applications are also accepted and should be sent via WeTransfer to [email protected].
Raju Rage is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Based in London and working beyond, they explore the spaces and relationships between dis/connected bodies, theory and practice, text and the body and aesthetics and the political substance. Their performative works have centred intimacy and acts of care. Raju has a theirstory in activism, self and collective organised queer/ transgender/ people of colour movements and creative projects in London and beyond from which their politics and works draw on and from.
A list of the artist development workshops being run as part of DIY 2020.
Artistic practice as queer civics: a series of online encounters about making better worlds through lived experience, material support, fun, and mutation.
Read moreRestless 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!
Read moreA six-week collectively-generated course on and in Fat Performance for fat people.
Read moreThis 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.
Read moreSocial life marooned like Tom Hanks in Castaway? Don’t befriend a volleyball, get social at Live Art Social (distance) Club!
Read moreA 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
Read moreInterested in using Live Art to create lo-fi short films exploring mental health and queer culture?
Read more“… Money talks, Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, oho”
Read moreAutobiographical sessions for postcolonial diaspora. Bodies as places of legacy; voice as ancestral calling; sharing stories; rituals; being vulnerable together.
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 moreThat’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.
Read more“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.”
Read moreWhite 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?”.
Read moreLeonie 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.
Read moreMake like teenagers and build the Discord fanfiction version of Live Art from your bedroom, under the mentorship of real-life Discord experts (teenagers).
Read moreAn intimate online pleasure LAB for disabled queers exploring Kink as an artistic tool for self-care.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreA Way Away uses the mode of correspondence course to explore ideas around distance – spatial and temporal, physical and social, imagined and real.
Read moreTaking an experimental journey of gentle sensory under-load, progressively leading up to observing or participating in a full body wrap.
Read moreApply to participate in DIY 2020; workshops developed and lead BY artists, FOR artists
Read moreThe first in a series of workshop sessions for SWANA young people to find out more about creative careers, and exchange knowledge with not only each other, but boss industry professionals smashing it in their fields.
Read moreLearn to build and program wearable sensors for use in sound based live art.
Read moreA residential workshop for multi-racial performance people on an island in the English Channel.
Read moreExploring television, Live Art, and the relationship between binge watching and durational/endurance performance
Read moreA weekend by the sea side exploring the very British obsession with privacy
Read more