Live Art in Rural UK

Ongoing Project

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

This is a year long project in which we are pleased to announce our first sets of artists, Miranda Whall and Poppy Jackson.

Miranda Whall: When Earth Speaks

When Earth Speaks was initially funded by the National Environmental Research Council (NERC) as part of an X Disciplinary Hopping Research Project: Planetary Multispecies Politics in Action led by Professor Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth University.

When Earth Speaks and other iterations, is an evolving and ongoing series of durational and relational drawing performances in which Miranda Whall will be translating raw data from various sources. In When Earth Speaks Miranda is representing the high resolution soil sensor technology data beyond traditional statistics, so that the data might have a wider meaning and greater impact.

Find out more about the When Earth Speaks project

Miranda Whall sat in the Botany House, drawing, surrounded by lush green plants and bright colourful pink flowers

Miranda Whall: Soil Voices

Soil Voices was funded by the National Environmental Research Council (NERC) as part of an X Disciplinary Hopping Research Project: Making the Invisible Visible: Instrumenting and Interpreting an Upland Landscape for Climate Change Resilience led by Pot Mariecia Fraser, Aberystwyth University.

Soil Voices will be a triptych of durational performances in which Miranda Whall will again be representing the high resolution soil sensor technology data beyond traditional statistics, so that the data might have a wider meaning and greater impact.

Find out more about Soil Voices

Miranda Whall digging in a long grassed field

Poppy Jackson: Pathways Home

Through Live Art in Rural UK, Poppy will be developing a year-long series of performances and actions in the surrounding landscape and further afield into Norfolk and Suffolk. Live works will explore performance as a marker of presence in the land that connects embodied discovery of its history with its potential. Centring these works at the artist’s base will engage, develop and expand local performance art audiences. Performances will be documented by local photographers and videographers, and will build towards a larger event and an exhibition at the culmination of the year-long project.

Find out more about Poppy Jackson

Poppy Jackson is walking along a path in front on a group of people on a sunny day. She is wearing all black and is bare-foot, whilst holding out a large horizontal wooden stick in front of her. This is taken in a polaroid style

Other projects in 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.

Ongoing

Miranda Whall: Soil Voices

Programmes

Ongoing

Miranda Whall: When Earth Speaks

Programmes

When Earth Speaks and other iterations, is an evolving and ongoing series of durational and relational drawing performances in which Miranda Whall will be translating raw data from various sources.

Ongoing

Poppy Jackson: Pathways Home

Programmes

Through Live Art in Rural UK, Poppy will be developing a year-long series of performances and actions in the surrounding landscape and further afield into Norfolk and Suffolk.

Banner image credit:

Miranda Whall

Ongoing

Live Art in Rural UK

Miranda Whall: When Earth Speaks

Miranda Whall: Soil Voices

Poppy Jackson: Pathways Home

Other projects in Live Art in Rural UK

Miranda Whall: Soil Voices

Miranda Whall: When Earth Speaks

Poppy Jackson: Pathways Home

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