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Artist Development Links

With Artsadmin, we have compiled a downloadable resource guide intended for artists who work in Live Art and contemporary performance and are at the start of their career.

Below you can find a selection of links to organisations we hope are useful. It’s not a comprehensive list by any means, but we hope it’s a useful starting point. Please email us if you have a link that you think should be added.

FUNDING INFORMATION HUBS

The following are not funding bodies, but provide information about how to find potential funding bodies for your project. Be sure to read all the detailed guidelines and background information offered before making any application or approach to a potential funder.

Artist reads a text into a microphone, lit by a rippling blue light with an effect similar to water. Victoria Sin, LADA’s 20th Anniversary Live Art Gala, October 2019. Image: Manuel Vason

E-LISTS

The following provide listings on opportunities, news and events in varying ways, and are particularly relevant to artists working in contemporary performance practice :

FUNDING BODIES

The following offer sources of funding in various ways. Be sure to read all the detailed guidelines and background information offered before making any application or approach. This is not a comprehensive list! Please also see Funding Information Hubs to find further examples of funding routes.

Artist Run Initiatives

As part of the advisory service we support individual and peer-led artist run groups. This is by no means the definitive list, so please do let us know if you think there are other organisations we should include here:

A workshop participant presses their body against a wall. Attached to the wall are various post it notes and paper sheets. DIY16: 2019 - Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson: To The Ritual Knowledge Of Remembering, ]performance s p a c e[, September 2019. Image: Sara Lima

BLOGS

The following are online blogs that provide useful information, articles, reviews and listings that might be of interest to artists and arts professionals working within contemporary performance practices.

ARTS, THEATRE AND CULTURE UK

 

DANCE

 

GREEN & ACTIVISM

The following are platforms for presenting and/or developing performance work. Many of these, but not all, are open to application. Please follow the links for detailed information on the nature of the platform, who it is intended for, and how to approach:

OPEN CALLS

FURTHER CAREER / R&D

CURATED PLATFORMS

Semi nude artist holds a translucent bluwe fabric over their head, in a room overlooking the London skyline at dusk. Amanda Coogan at Steakhouse Live Festival 2018, Artsadmin.
Artist wearing makeup and an American Football plate crouches next to a car. FK Alexander, C/A/R/S - CAN ANYONE REALLY SURVIVE. Image by Julia Bauer

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Franko B and Nando Messias in conversation, Live Art Now, Queen Mary University of London, July 2019. Still from video, by Claire Nolan.

Part of Links and Resources for Artists

A series of resources – FAQs, links, lists of organisations and venues etc. – for artists working in Live Art and contemporary performance in the UK.

Links and Resources for Artists

A series of resources – FAQs, links, lists of organisations and venues etc. – for artists working in Live Art and contemporary performance in the UK.

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Live Art Venues

A list of London based venues and organisations with an interest in Live Art.

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