All Projects

Ongoing

Live Art in Rural UK

Live Art in Rural Spaces UK, is a new programme for LADA which focuses on amplifying the embodied practices of artists living and working in rural locations across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Reimagining Care: 200 Questions About Care by Rubiane Maia

Rubiane Maia’s 200 Questions about Care were developed out of her research as part of the six-month residency Reimagining Care.

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Reimagining Care

LADA’s latest project Reimagining Care focuses on contemporary discourses about care and care practices, exploring how they can contribute to transforming the art sector.

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performingborders

performingborders shares and supports experimental performative practices addressing notions and lived experiences of borders.

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Emergent Ties – Actioning Climate Justice (Accelerator Programme)

LADA is delighted to announce that our proposal on behalf of LADA & Live Art UK and Gasworks & Triangle Network has been accepted into the Accelerator Programme.

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Hauntings and Herstories: Feminist Live Art in 1980s and 1990s Ireland

A research project led by Clare Daly in a collaboration between LADA and the Department of Drama at the University of Roehampton, funded by the TECHNE doctoral awards scheme.

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Library of Performing Rights

The Library of Performing Rights 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.

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LADA and Swiss Live Art

LADA is working with Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council on a three-year initiative (2018-20) to raise the profile of Swiss Live Art in the UK and contribute to the development of exchanges and collaborations between artists and promoters in the UK and Switzerland.

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MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester (including HUMANZ)

Documentation, context and information about a project by Theatre of Research & LADA for Manchester International Festival 2019considering intergenerational, interspecies relations.    

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The Garrett Centre Commission: 2019 – Hari Byles and Linden McMahon

Hari Byles and Katherine McMahon are the second recipients of the annual Garrett Centre commission, for their project ‘Earthlings’.

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LADA 20th Anniversary 2019

LADA marks its 20th anniversary in 2019 and will be celebrating with a series of initiatives throughout the year

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Restock, Rethink, Reflect Five: on Managing The Radical

An ongoing project considering the idea of managing the radical (or radicalising the management).

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Edge of an Era

A new project revisiting a series of seminal performance events from the 1980’s.

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Access All Areas at LADA

Addressing the lack of visibility for learning disabled and autistic artists within Live Art

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LADA Projects and Programmes 2018

A list of projects hosted and coordinated by LADA

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Scottee 10: I Made It

LADA is collaborating with Scottee in 2018 to mark his ten years of survival as an artist

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Extravagant Bodies: Crime and Punishment

LADA is hosting a London presentation of Extravagant Bodies: Crime and Punishment on 17 to 18 November 2017

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ABsence: Awkward Bastards 2

Symposium in Birmingham to rethink ideas around diversity

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Performance Magazine Online

A new online archive of Performance Magazine (1979-1992), plus new resources

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The Residents

A series of Live Art Residencies in Wellcome Collection’s Reading Room

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Ouch: Pain and Performance

A dark and daring journey into the pursuit of pain for science, for pleasure, for progress, for art and for agency

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Glimpses of Before – 1970s Performance Art in the UK

Online Study Room Guide on 1970’s Performance Art in the UK

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Fundraising Resource Handbook

Artsadmin, Home Live Art and LADA worked to develop a free online Fundraising Resource Handbook

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PLAYING UP: A Live Art Game for Kids and Adults

An artwork taking the form of a game, exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations

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Through the Looking Glass: performances to watch and be part of

Join some of the UK’s most original artists in performances and interactions across St Helens

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Double Your Money with Scottee

To be in with a chance of winning a place at this special event, enter our free lottery

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The Arthole Cockle Medal for Live Art Philanthropy, by Joshua Sofaer

Joshua Sofaer responds to LADA’s two-year Catalyst fundraising programme

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LADA and the Catalyst Programme

Summary of LADA activities as part of the ACE’s Catalyst Programme

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Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme

A transnational partnership on collaborative arts funded by Creative Europe, 2014-18

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The Art of Noises: Where Live Art meets Music at Latitude

For Latitude LADA has curated an exciting line up of aurally fixated artists.

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Counterpoints Arts presents dis/placed

A week-long progamme of events 
in response to human
 displacement

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Performance and Politics in the 1970s – documentation

Screenings, conversations and presentations which explore the history of performance art in the 1970s

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Documenting Intimacy

Research initiative by Brian Lobel & Marisa Zanotti exploring the documentation of one-to-one performance

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Posporno Latino

A screening programme of artists working in the contemporary Latin-American scene.

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LADA Screens

Online screenings and events of rarely seen and exclusive material

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Playing With Space

An evening of performance films curated by Lawrence Bradby

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Awkward Bastards: Rethinking Ideas Around Diversity

Awkward Bastards will challenge and explore the concept of diversity

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Study Room Gathering on the Live Female Body in Current Feminist Performance Practice, UK & US

Poppy Jackson will discuss recent research into the feminist performance scene

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2015 LAUK Associates Gathering: Weathering The Storm

The Gathering considered the idea of the Storm as a metaphor for change.

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Take the money and run? – an event about ethics, funding and art

Take the money and run? is a day of presentations, provocations and discussions

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LADA at Venice International Performance Art Week

Live performances, exhibitions, installations, screenings and debates

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Monica Ross: A Symposium

Speakers who knew Monica Ross personally will explore her contributions

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Performance from the Edge

Two screening programmes of radical work for SPILL 2014

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LADA at Hackney WickEd 2014

a pop-up Study Room as part of the Hackney Wicked Art Festival

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