Live Art and the Displaced
- Year
- 2017
LADA works on initiatives relating to Live Art and the displaced, including curatorial projects, programming partnerships with other organisations, publications, opportunities and resources. The following summary includes links to more information on each initiative.
Restock, Rethink, Reflect Four: on Live Art and Privilege
Elena Marchevska undertook a residency, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts, exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to the displaced.
Study Room Guide & Toolkit
Free print and online resources by Elena Marchevska: a Study Room Guide looking at a range of projects and resources and a Toolkit for itinerant artists, for those on the move, for those who are still and for those who can’t travel.
Diverse Actions Leadership Bursary recipient: Joon Lynn Goh
Exploring the potential of experimental citizenship, inspired by migrant-led initiatives that are claiming and performing rights, relationships and resources that disavow victimhood and charity.
Performing Borders
A free Study Room Guide on physical and conceptual borders within Live Art, created and devised by Alessandra Cianetti.
The Library of Performing Rights
A collection of resources and related events programme, examining the intersections between performance and Human Rights; including Call for Proposals for artist commission.
DIY artists’ workshops
LADA’s annual UK-wide professional development programme includes initiatives addressing issues relating to the displaced.
dis/placed
A week-long progamme of events in response to global demographic shifts and unprecedented levels of human displacement, with Counterpoints Arts.
Live Art UK
Many of the organisational members of the Live Art UK network develop and support Live Art by, for, and with displaced artists and audiences.
Unbound
LADA’s Unbound shop includes a selection of titles relating to Live Art and displacement.
Other organisations working in these areas include but are not limited to Counterpoints Arts and Sacred: Homelands Festival.
Banner image credit:
Photograph: ‘Nowhere is Home’ by Manaf Halbouni, 2015
Part of Restock, Rethink, Reflect 4: on Live Art and Privilege
A project focusing on issues of Live Art and privilege
Restock, Rethink, Reflect 4: on Live Art and Privilege
A project focusing on issues of Live Art and privilege
Read moreLive Art and Children
A collection of initiatives and resources for working with young people
Read moreLive Art and Older Individuals and Communities
A collection of initiatives and resources for working with older individuals and communities
Read moreRestock, Rethink, Reflect 4 – Study Room Guides and Toolkits
Study Room Guides and Toolkits generated from the four research residencies of RRR4: on Live Art and privilege
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Documenting Live!
A major new publication on the representations of cultural difference in performance.
Read moreEdge of an Era
A new project revisiting a series of seminal performance events from the 1980’s.
Read moreLADA at the London Art Book Fair 2013
An annual event which celebrates the best of international contemporary art publishing
Read moreLiverpool Live 06 – a festival of urban apparition
A four day series of interventions, occurrences and happenings for Liverpool Biennial 2006.
Read morePerformance + Cocktails
Duckie invite you to a bourgeois cocktail lounge to sip nine short sharp shots in a taster for live art virgins.
Read moreLive Art in Rural UK
Live Art in Rural UK is a year long programme conceived by LADA’s former Director, Vivian Chinasa Ezugha. It focuses on amplifying the embodied practices of artists living and working in rural locations across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Read moreLibrary 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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