Deadline for applications: 12 noon, Monday 21 January 2019
Call for proposals for a new commissioned performance based work responding to The Library of Performing Rights
Deadline for applications: 12 noon, Monday 21 January 2019
The Live Art Development Agency (LADA), the artist Lois Weaver, the artist and researcher Elena Marchevska of the Centre for Research in Digital Storymaking, and the Study Room In Exile in Liverpool are inviting proposals for a new performative or performance-based work that will respond to The Library of Performing Rights, and generate new resources for the benefit of artists, activists and academics working in the fields of human rights, social and environmental justice.
The commission should be realised between April and October 2019.
The commission award is £2,500 (inclusive of fees, taxes, travel/accommodation, and production expenses).
The Library of Performing Rights (LPR) was originally created in 2016 (by Lois Weaver of Queen Mary University London in collaboration with LADA) for Performance Studies international (PSi)12: Performing Rights, as a unique resource containing publications, videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs, brochures, digital and web-based initiatives that examined the intersection between performance and human rights. Materials were submitted by artists, activists and academics from around the world.
Since PSi12, LPR has been housed in LADA’s Study Room as a distinct collection of materials, has been presented in Vienna and Glasgow as part of LADA’s Performing Rights programmes, and has been installed in Rio De Janeiro and Montreal in curatorial initiatives led by Andrew Mitchelson and Lois Weaver.
From August 2017, the LPR has been reimagined and reactivated by LADA, Lois Weaver, Elena Marchevska and the Study Room In Exile, as a concept or approach to research and practice, rather than a distinct collection. It is available as a place of action, a place of knowledge exchange, a repository of experience, and a context that others can use to support and advance their own work both at LADA and elsewhere.
LPR developments include:
The commissioned work will involve three core elements:
1. A live performance or performative presentation
2. The generation of an item to be included in the LPR
3. The dispersal of ideas or knowledge
1. Live performance/performative presentation
A new live performance or performative presentation that in some way responds to the concept and content of The Library of Performing Rights, and that advances approaches to, understandings of, and practices related to issues of human rights, social and environmental justice.
In 2019, the second year of the new LPR Commissions, the commission will also form part of LADA’s next Restock Rethink, Reflect programme on Managing the Radical (2019-21). Live Art has always broken the rules of cultural ‘production and consumption’ and is on the frontline of enquiries into what our culture is and what it can do. Live Art almost inevitably demands different approaches to ideas of ‘arts management’ and we particularly encourage proposals from artists that might reimagine how art that operates and thinks ‘differently’ is created and/or explore methodologies of production that might be more appropriate and effective for radical new forms of artistic practice?
The commissioned work can take any form (performance, performance-installation, public intervention or action, illustrated presentation) and may involve collaborations with other artists and/or activists.
All aspects of the creation, production and presentation of the work, including collaborators’ fees and all taxes/expenses, must be included within the commission award of £2,500.
The commissioned work will be presented in/at/near LADA’s new space in Mansford Street, East London between April and October 2019.
2. The generation of an item to be included in the LPR
The commission will generate a new item for the LPR, either through documentation of the performance or presentation or through the creation of an object or publication as part of the commissioned work.
3. The dispersal of ideas or knowledge
The commission should have the capacity for knowledge exchange in ways that will benefit artists, activists and academics working in the fields of human rights, social and environmental justice. This may happen through live actions/interventions/events, print, online, or by other means. The Study Room in Exile in Liverpool will be a radical repository or receptacle for the dispersed resource and we welcome commission proposals which suggest other key repositories.
One, or all, of the three elements of the commission (above) will be presented or profiled at the annual LPR Open Days in London and Liverpool (dates tbc). The £2,500 commission award is inclusive of travel and accommodation costs for those London and Liverpool Open Days.
To be eligible for the LPR commissions artists should identify as working with/within Live Art. For more information about how we define Live Art, see here.
Applicants can be resident anywhere in the UK, but must have been based in the UK for a minimum of five years, and have been practicing professionally within the arts for a minimum of five years.
If you are unsure about your eligibility please call LADA to discuss it with us in advance.
We encourage, and will prioritise, proposals which are bold, creative and set out to advance approaches to, understandings of, and practices related to issues of human rights, social and environmental justice.
Deadline for applications: 12 noon Monday 21 January, 2019
Proposals should include the following information:
The commissioned artists will be selected by representatives of LADA and Study Room in Exile along with Lois Weaver and Elena Marchevska.
The Library of Performing Rights 2019 commission is additionally supported by the Centre for Research in Digital Storymaking and the Study Room in Exile.
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