Performing Rights
- Year
- 2006
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
Other projects in Performing Rights
An ongoing programme of events examining the intersection between performance and Human Rights
Performing Rights Glasgow
Performances, presentations, discussions, screenings, and interventions around ideas of performance and human rights at the NRLA.
Read morePerforming Rights: Encuentro, Montreal
The Library of Performing Rights featured at the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro 2014.
Read moreThe Library of Performing Rights on Tour
An ever expanding collection of resources on performance and Human Rights.
Read moreThe LIFT Long Table on Performing Rights
An experimental discussion format led by Lois Weaver on relations between performance and human rights.
Read moreBanner image credit:
Luiz De Abreu. Photograph: Gil Groffi.
Part of Library of Performing Rights
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.
Library of Performing Rights
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 moreLibrary of Performing Rights: 2018 Commission Barby Asante
LADA has announced Barby Asante as the first recipient of the Library of Performing Rights commission
Read moreLibrary of Performing Rights: 2019 Commission Nando Messias
Nando Messias is the second recipient of the annual Library of Performing Rights commission.
Read moreAlso
Live Art in Rural UK
Live 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.
Read moreIn memory of Monica Ross
An anniversary recitation of The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
Read moreBritish Festival of Visual Theatre 1999
Stacy Makishi’s Suicide For Beginners (a work in development).
Read moreLADA at Hackney WickEd 2014
a pop-up Study Room as part of the Hackney Wicked Art Festival
Read moreEast End Collaborations
A range of support structures for graduates and emerging artists working with Live Art.
Read moreCrossovers
Screenings, talks and a DVD series of artists’ films, documentaries and dialogues, concluding Performance Matters
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