Intimacy

Video documentation of THE CALL CENTRE with Artist in Residence Samra Mayanja and Riot + the Ether co-presented with Newington Green Meeting House.

Curated and hosted by Samra Mayanja, THE CALL CENTRE has become a monthly must-see in London’s Live Art calendar. Initiated in and usually taking place in her studio, Samra has created a framework not only about, but in service to, that difficult task that we engage with every day, which is to speak. To say ourselves and to speak ourselves, and to make the decision with every word and every breath not to hide.

For each CALL CENTRE, Samra invites cross-disciplinary artists and writers to share live work with and alongside her. This framework comes from her impulse to contextualise her own work through the artists whose work she loves.

In this special edition of THE CALL CENTRE  Samra stepped out of her 21 seater studio and joined the long-line of dissenting voices that have spoken out in the chapel at Newington Green Meeting House.

Riot + the Ether presented ‘the impossible big’ on Saturday 07 February, 2026.

Video documentation of a one-off event hosted at LADA. Artist Tim Etchells invited performer Rosana Cade and musician Angharad Davies to join him in an encounter working with text loop fragments and violin improvisation. Drawing on Etchells’ practice in which language distorts and transforms through repetition and in dialogue with sound elements, More details are slowly falling in was a collaborative experiment in which three unique artists bring their considerable individual experience and perspectives to play, inventing and exploring sonic material together.

The starting point for the performance was a set of text fragments taken from Etchells’ notebook – overheard comments, puzzling images and questions – which take their place in layers of voice and violin in compositions where texture, energy and musicality are as important as semantics.

The event was hosted at The Garrett Centre on Saturday 21 February, 2026

Audio recording of the UK launch of performance art duo Kainulainen & Latva’s book Globus Hystericus, published in 2025 by Finnish publishing house Taide.

Finnish performance art duo Kainulainen & Latva have been making extraordinary performances in both their native Finland and internationally since 2014. Informed by narratives of personal trauma, twinned with accounts of Finnish folklore, they have produced a prolific and unique body of work from their profoundly intimate and collaborative dynamic.

Performance artists Katri Kainulainen and Maximilian Latva gave a presentation with video clips and slides of their practice, followed by a Q&A session with special guests Dominic Johnson and Martin O’Brien. Key themes explored in the neurodivergent duo’s work include trauma, power relations and gender issues.

The event was hosted at LADA on Wednesday 22 July, 2026.

Something Other Live is a series of experimental writing and performance events which act as companions to the themed Chapters published by Something Other collective.

Audio recordning of a curated series of performances, screenings and sound pieces to launch and celebrate Something Other’s thirteenth chapter, On Elasticity: a collection of audio, video and written works and other somethings that consider stretch, contraction, tension and Spring.

The line-up will included works finished and just beginning as well as new experiments from contributors including Karen Christopher, Rhiannon Armstrong, Susan Rudy, Alexandra  Baybutt, Helen Savage, Victoria Gray and Sam Williams.

The event was be hosted by Diana Damian Martin and Maddy Costa at LADA on Monday 14 July, 2025.

Audio recording of an evening of conversation with artist Delaine Le Bas and her long term collaborators Ronke Osinowo and Hḗrā Santos.

The conversation was structured around performance texts that track histories of their collaboration. It explored the questions of how their collaborative process works and how they navigate the variable spaces they perform in?

Performance Crits was part of Performing the Art School, a series of research activities with Central Saint Martins C-School staff, postgraduate researchers and alumni in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency 2025-26. It included the sharing of practice and research, engaging with LADA’s archive and research collection, and explored the contexts and infrastructures for supporting the work we do to meet new publics and audiences.

Performance Crits takes its departure from the art school critique where artists present their work in the studio, and receive feedback.

Video documentation of Marc Hulson performing at LADA on Friday 5 June 2026, as part of PERFORMANCE CRITS:An Evening of Art School Performance.

Performance Crits was part of Performing the Art School, a series of research activities with Central Saint Martins C-School staff, postgraduate researchers and alumni in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency 2025-26. It included the sharing of practice and research, engaging with LADA’s archive and research collection, and explored the contexts and infrastructures for supporting the work we do to meet new publics and audiences.

Performance Crits takes its departure from the art school critique where artists present their work in the studio, and receive feedback.

Video documentation of Jaime Prada performing at LADA on Friday 5 June 2026, as part of PERFORMANCE CRITS:An Evening of Art School Performance.

Performance Crits was part of Performing the Art School, a series of research activities with Central Saint Martins C-School staff, postgraduate researchers and alumni in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency 2025-26. It included the sharing of practice and research, engaging with LADA’s archive and research collection, and explored the contexts and infrastructures for supporting the work we do to meet new publics and audiences.

Performance Crits takes its departure from the art school critique where artists present their work in the studio, and receive feedback.

Video documentation of Vicky Tang performing at LADA on Friday 5 June 2026, as part of PERFORMANCE CRITS:An Evening of Art School Performance.

Performance Crits was part of Performing the Art School, a series of research activities with Central Saint Martins C-School staff, postgraduate researchers and alumni in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency 2025-26. It included the sharing of practice and research, engaging with LADA’s archive and research collection, and explored the contexts and infrastructures for supporting the work we do to meet new publics and audiences.

Performance Crits takes its departure from the art school critique where artists present their work in the studio, and receive feedback.

Video documentation of Sandra Zanetti performing at LADA on Friday 5 June 2026, as part of PERFORMANCE CRITS:An Evening of Art School Performance.

Performance Crits was part of Performing the Art School, a series of research activities with Central Saint Martins C-School staff, postgraduate researchers and alumni in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency 2025-26. It included the sharing of practice and research, engaging with LADA’s archive and research collection, and explored the contexts and infrastructures for supporting the work we do to meet new publics and audiences.

Performance Crits takes its departure from the art school critique where artists present their work in the studio, and receive feedback.

Video documentation of Pat Naldi performing at LADA on Friday 5 June 2026, as part of PERFORMANCE CRITS:An Evening of Art School Performance.

Performance Crits was part of Performing the Art School, a series of research activities with Central Saint Martins C-School staff, postgraduate researchers and alumni in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency 2025-26. It included the sharing of practice and research, engaging with LADA’s archive and research collection, and explored the contexts and infrastructures for supporting the work we do to meet new publics and audiences.

Performance Crits takes its departure from the art school critique where artists present their work in the studio, and receive feedback.

Video documentation of Owen Parry performing at LADA on Friday 5 June 2026, as part of PERFORMANCE CRITS:An Evening of Art School Performance.

Performance Crits was part of Performing the Art School, a series of research activities with Central Saint Martins C-School staff, postgraduate researchers and alumni in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency 2025-26. It included the sharing of practice and research, engaging with LADA’s archive and research collection, and explored the contexts and infrastructures for supporting the work we do to meet new publics and audiences.

Performance Crits takes its departure from the art school critique where artists present their work in the studio, and receive feedback.

Video documentation of Mina Orak performing at LADA on Friday 5 June 2026, as part of PERFORMANCE CRITS:An Evening of Art School Performance.