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
A project focusing on issues of Live Art and privilege
A project focusing on issues of Live Art and privilege
Read moreA collection of initiatives and resources for working with young people
Read moreA collection of initiatives and resources for working with older individuals and communities
Read moreStudy Room Guides and Toolkits generated from the four research residencies of RRR4: on Live Art and privilege
Read moreA major programme of Live Art events curated by Chinese Arts Centre.
Read moreScreenings, talks and a DVD series of artists’ films, documentaries and dialogues, concluding Performance Matters
Read moreA major new publication on the representations of cultural difference in performance.
Read moreA three-year research project bringing together artists and academics to investigate ideas of cultural value.
Read moreAn annual event which celebrates the best of international contemporary art publishing
Read moreA new online archive of Performance Magazine (1979-1992), plus new resources
Read moreInterventions by leading disabled artists in the birthplace of the Olympic Games.
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