The Library of Performing Rights is an ongoing collaboration between LADA, Lois Weaver, Elena Marchevska and the Study Room In Exile. Established as a unique collection of resources relating to the intersections of performance and Human rights, the Library of Performing Rights was reactivated in 2017 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.
Developments of the Library of Performing Rights include:
The Library of Performing Rights is an annual commission offered by LADA, in collaboration with the Study Room in Exile and London Southbank University.
The 2019 commission was The Pink Supper by Nando Messias.
The 2018 commission was Declaration of Independence by Barby Asante.
DIY is LADA’s flagship professional development programme – an annual series of workshops by artists for artists. Each year, one DIY project is funded as part of the Library of Performing Rights project.
In 2019 this was The Silence by Beverley Thomas.
The Library of Performing Rights (LPR) was originally created in 2006 (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.
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.
LADA has announced Barby Asante as the first recipient of the Library of Performing Rights commission
Read moreNando Messias is the second recipient of the annual Library of Performing Rights commission.
Read moreAn ongoing programme of events examining the intersection between performance and Human Rights
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The Pink Supper (2019), © Holly Revell
A hand picked selection of materials from LADA’s Study Room
Read moreDocumentation, context and information about a project by Theatre of Research & LADA for Manchester International Festival 2019considering intergenerational, interspecies relations.
Read moreA panel on the ways artists use ideas of service and labour as creative strategies as part of At Your Service.
Read moreA limited edition artwork, a performance enabler, and an educational resource.
Read moreA film programme of documentation and performance to camera for Hackney Wicked.
Read moreLADA marks its 20th anniversary in 2019 and will be celebrating with a series of initiatives throughout the year
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