2006 – 2014
Performing Rights was a programme of events curated and produced in collaboration with organisations and others in the UK and around the world. Performing Rights developed from a 2006 partnership between LADA, Queen Mary University, London, East End Collaborations and Performance Studies international for PSi12:Performing Rights (link), and continued as a collaboration between LADA and Lois Weaver of Queen Mary until 2014.
In times of increasing conflicts, injustices, and inequities, Performing Rights set out to reflect the kinds of creative strategies artists are using to effect social, cultural and political change; to illustrate new models of relationships between art and activism; and to consider the role and responsibilities of artists, curators, and performance itself, in the understanding, enactment and sustenance of human rights.
Performing Rights events included performances, presentations, lectures, discussions, screenings, installations and interventions around ideas of performance and human rights.
Performing Rights programmes also featured installations of The Library of Performing Rights, an ever expanding physical resource of books and materials reflecting the relationships between performance and Human Rights.
The Library is housed in LADA’s Study Room, and is available for tour.
Performing Rights programmes:
Performing Rights: Encuentro, Montreal, 2014
Performing Rights: Corpo-Copia, Brazil, 2012
Performing Rights Glasgow, 2008
The Long Table on Performing Rights, 2008
An ongoing programme of events examining the intersection between performance and Human Rights
Performances, presentations, discussions, screenings, and interventions around ideas of performance and human rights at the NRLA.
Read moreThe Library of Performing Rights featured at the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro 2014.
Read moreAn ever expanding collection of resources on performance and Human Rights.
Read moreAn experimental discussion format led by Lois Weaver on relations between performance and human rights.
Read moreBanner image credit:
Luiz De Abreu. Photograph: Gil Groffi.
The Library of Performing Rights is available as a place of action, a place of knowledge exchange, a repository of experience, and a context that others can use to support and advance their own work both at LADA and elsewhere.
The Library of Performing Rights is available as a place of action, a place of knowledge exchange, a repository of experience, and a context that others can use to support and advance their own work both at LADA and elsewhere.
Read moreLADA has announced Barby Asante as the first recipient of the Library of Performing Rights commission
Read moreNando Messias is the second recipient of the annual Library of Performing Rights commission.
Read moreLive Art commissions and presentations in collaboration with the Bluecoat for Liverpool Biennial 2002.
Read moreA three-year research project bringing together artists and academics to investigate ideas of cultural value.
Read moreAn original and inventive resource created by Joshua Sofaer
Read moreA food based investigation by Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour into Palestinian/Israeli cultural collaborations.
Read moreA four day series of interventions, occurrences and happenings for Liverpool Biennial 2006.
Read moreLive Art in Rural UK is a year long programme conceived by LADA’s former Director, Vivian Chinasa Ezugha. It focuses on amplifying the embodied practices of artists living and working in rural locations across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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