DIY 2020: Harun Morrison & Ofelia Jarl Ortega – Forest as Score

Artistic practice as queer civics: a series of online encounters about making better worlds through lived experience, material support, fun, and mutation.

Restless Study will be a space for people to study which privileges restlessness and distraction over focus and concentration. We will generate, manipulate and circulate objects of study, including text, conversation, image, action, movement, and beyond. We will throw off the shackles of goal-oriented education to reclaim study as a vital, liberatory mode of being in dialogue with others!

A six-week collectively-generated course on and in Fat Performance for fat people.

This DIY project uses performance informed by science fiction, magic, ritual and idiocy to explore how our relationship to the public realm has changed and will continue to change because of COVID-19.

Social life marooned like Tom Hanks in Castaway? Don’t befriend a volleyball, get social at Live Art Social (distance) Club!

A 3-day remote retreat for six producers, curators and arts administrators who have had to undo their present and future work due to COVID-19. This DIY is run in partnership with ArtHouse Jersey

Interested in using Live Art to create lo-fi short films exploring mental health and queer culture?

“… Money talks, Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, oho”

Autobiographical sessions for postcolonial diaspora. Bodies as places of legacy; voice as ancestral calling; sharing stories; rituals; being vulnerable together.

Conversations on expanded multi-dimensional ideas of anatomy, divination, geography and language, seeking to bring transformational movement to ideas of trauma and healing as they are shaped by oppressive systems and given form in our bodies

That’s Governance! invites participants to interrogate conditions of governance, and propose, through roleplay, a non-human candidate for Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)’s Board of Trustees.

White Vinegar Workshop revolves around the quote from leading New York artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles “After the revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?”.

Leonie and Ishwari will be working to explore alternative processes of mapping time and landscape, moving away from ideas of linearity and colonial legacies of demarcation. Focussing on process rather than production, they will do this using plant-based darkroom printing, fermentation and chorus interventions.

Make like teenagers and build the Discord fanfiction version of Live Art from your bedroom, under the mentorship of real-life Discord experts (teenagers).

An intimate online pleasure LAB for disabled queers exploring Kink as an artistic tool for self-care.

A workshop aimed at fans and future fans of the late great Katherine Araniello, a queer, crip, red-headed firebrand whose work lives on to disturb and tantalize in equal measure.

A workshop for artists who lost projects in 2020, sharing what we have lost, learned and gained, creating mourning rituals and (re)discovering our individual and collective resources.

An online residency queerying ‘The politics of Intimacy’ within our bodies and lives as well as in our creative practice/s

A Way Away uses the mode of correspondence course to explore ideas around distance – spatial and temporal, physical and social, imagined and real.

Taking an experimental journey of gentle sensory under-load, progressively leading up to observing or participating in a full body wrap.

Apply to participate in DIY 2020; workshops developed and lead BY artists, FOR artists

The first in a series of workshop sessions for SWANA  young people to find out more about creative careers, and exchange knowledge with not only each other, but boss industry professionals smashing it in their fields.