Blast Theory’s Rider Spoke, its Documentation and the Making of its Replay Archive

Documentation from a deep dive into La Pocha Nostra’s archive held at LADA’s Study Room on 5th July 2024, led by artist Ansuman Biswas who has been collaborating with La Pocha Nostra and its founder Guillermo Gómez-Peña since 2002.

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Audio documentation of a participatory conversation in response to La Pocha Nostra’s commitment to use performativity as a methodology of resistance and to erase the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, and artist and spectator, on 2nd August 2024  at The Garrett Centre.

performingborders has been exploring performance and Live Art practices across notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders since 2016, inspired by La Pocha Nostra’s work. Drawing from Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s publication Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back (2000), they explored LADA Study Room’s resources around borders and performances, including the Performing Borders Study Room Guide. They also drew from their own archive to highlight artists whose practices challenge the diversity of experiences at the intersections of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical, economic, and everyday borders.

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Audio documentation of a conversation on Live Art and Gaming, led by Symoné on 30th November, 2024, at The Garrett Centre.

Symoné shared her process of creating her work Dream Within A Dream and then opened up to a group discussion about how Live Art, technology and gaming intersect with queerness and alternative narratives. This event was part of a Study Room Session on Live Art and Gaming. Find out more

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shado Issue 2 : Global Womxnhood

Feature on poet and performer Tolu Agbelusi.

Mclarrity, Spike (2021) White rabbit : celebrating ten years of Barnes’ White Rabbit.

This fully-illustrated book brings together for the first time an account of Baker’s career as an artist – from her first sculptures at Central St Martins in the early 1970s to her most recent work, ‘How to Live’ and ‘Diary Drawings’ – with critical commentary by reviewers and academic practitioners.

This title offers the gender-bending performances of Dlane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops. This book documents and contextualizes the development of Torr’s internationally celebrated workshops, as well as her own ongoing experiments in performing gender-play in theaters, galleries, and clubs.

This article presents the research and performance practice behind ‘The Performing Solidarity Project’.

Interviews with people at the intersection of disability, queerness, kink, sex work and survivorship.

Training Utopias

Performance Research Volume 25 Issue No. 8 December 2020

Pg173-174

Training Utopias

Performance Research Volume 25 Issue No. 8 December 2020

Pg69-75

Contemporary Theatre Review Volume 32 Issue Number 1 February 2022

p61-80