Artists in Residence 2025
- Year
- 2025
Last year, we piloted an Artists in Residence programme, inviting three artists Samra Mayanja, Claudia Palazzo and Symoné to be connected with LADA over 9 months.
As part of the residency, the three artists were invited to develop alternative peer-to-peer gatherings in relation to their own on-going research and practice. They explored ideas and methodologies in dialogue with other makers and thinkers, the LADA team and materials in the Live Art Research Collection.
To mark the end of the residency, LADA’s Director, Mary Osborn, spoke to the three artists together, reflecting on their different residency activities and their relationship with discipline, community and visibility.
Samra Mayanja
please believe me… is a series of dinners, conversations and archive deep dives for artists concerned with liveness, pedagogy, film and other relational practices.
For this iteration Samra invited a group of artists she has an established relationship with to explore the Live Art Research Collection. These artists in turn invited one or two others to join. The invited artists span a multiplicity of performance practices, actively cultivate communities and work in collaborative ways. The day was an attempt to understand what benefit an archival investigation can bring to an artist’s work and to them personally.
Claudia Palazzo
Selected through an open call, Claudia Palazzo formed Stock Check. Eight artists met over four evening gatherings at The Garrett Centre from July to October. They each took turns to share practice and discussed their work together over a home-cooked dinner.
As a group of artists, operating within the multiplicities of Live Art they found a shared acceptance of the unknown, and a willingness to work out the pertinent, practical questions of sharing together. How do we communicate across and in between art forms, language barriers and cultural norms? How do we as artists and near strangers navigate politeness, politics, and truthful feedback? What is the relationship between censorship and honesty?
They found, through their differences, that common thematic threads emerged such as questions of what is my inheritance? And how does capitalism shape my perception of time?
More informationSymoné
Through an open call Symoné set up the Live Art and Gaming Network, a community for artists, performers, game makers, and creative technologists exploring the space between video games and live art.
The network began with a two-day game jam exploring deceptively simple questions: What is a game? What is play? What makes something playful?
Participants worked primarily with physical materials and non-digital formats, using cards, objects, movement, and conversation to prototype experiences. The game jam discussions quickly revealed how personally defined and nuanced the definition of a game becomes once rules, goals, and participation are treated as flexible rather than fixed.
More informationMeeting Points
To mark the end of the residency, LADA’s Director, Mary Osborn, spoke to the three artists together, reflecting on their different residency activities and their relationship with discipline, community and visibility.
More informationBanner image credit:
Samra Mayanja, The Call Centre, 2024. Image by an audience member
Claudia Palazzo. Image by Zbigniew Kotkiewicz
Symoné. Image courtesy of the artist
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Read moreClaudia Palazzo – Artist in Residence
In 2025 we welcomed Symoné as an Artist in Residence. Through an open call Claudia brought together Stock Check, a group of eight artists from a diverse mix of disciplines and backgrounds.
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