DIY: 2018 – Documentation

Year: 2019

DIY is LADA’s annual scheme offering professional development opportunities BY artists, FOR artists.

Between June and November, DIY15: 2018 offered artists the opportunity to conceive and run unique, radical and idiosyncratic projects with the support of 23 national partners across the length and breadth of the UK, from Scotland to Plymouth, Cardiff to Suffolk. In 2018 there were 23 workshops, run by 40 lead artists, with over 200 participants.

Just some of DIY15’s highlights include a totally unplanned weekend at the Southbank Centre, digger racing in Kent, Haitian Voodoo in Brighton, nude hiking, raving through the Welsh countryside and Iron-mongering in Scotland. DIY15: 2018 hosted some of our most ambitious, diverse and transformative projects to date, here we present selected feedback, images and video documentation.

Full details of all DIY15 projects
Documentation Action Research Collective (DARC): Transformance

Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari: Tiny Revolutions

Sorryyoufeeluncomfortable: Black Drift Writing

Katherine Araniello & Teresa Albor: How the Fuck..?

Hamish McPherson: We Robot

Feedback from lead and participating artists

“Please keep running DIY, it is essential that artists get this kind of time and space outside usual contexts to share and make work together. It is a rare and original program, we need these spaces to keep breathing!” – Helena Hunter (lead artist: Encounters)

“I can’t quite describe how profound this experience was.” – Nwando Ebizi (lead artist: Afro Diasporic Ritual as Afrofuturist Technology)

“I’m left with a feeling of huge pride and fortune to have gone through such a transformation both performatively and within my relationship with my mum.” – Participant (Joshua Sofear: Artists and their Families)

“We really appreciate the safe space we were given to invite other artists to engage with some of our personal experiments and to open up conversations and find ways to develop these” – DARC (lead aritsts: Transformance)

“I will remember most the feeling of being completely in the moment naked swimming in a cold waterfall plunge pool with a group of inspirational women. I will also remember ritualistically dancing with one woman saying “I feel like I am in a magical dream”. I learned that it is powerful to show vulnerability as a facilitator and to put trust in the group.” – Joanne Matthews (lead artist: Wild Philosophy: Raving, Running, Reading)

“ I’ve never been in such a caring space with so many artists of colour in my life, thanks to the facilitators Barby and Ria for enabling this and Sonya for her commitment to this work. I’ve definitely made solid connections that I look forward to strengthening” – Participant (Ria Hartley, Barby Asante & Sonya Welch-Moring: The Body is the Place. Memories are the Map)

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From DIY15: Art & the Self: What did Narcissus see? Led by Nando Messias (image by Holly Revell)

From DIY15: A New Career In A New Town, led by Ania Bas with Sally O’Reilly & Kit Caless (image by Sarah Fuller)

From DIY15: Transformance, led by DARC (image by Holly Revell)

From DIY15: FUCK PERFORMANCE ART, GIMME MY BOXSET, led by Brian Lobel, FK Alexander & Season Butler (image courtesy of artists)

From DIY15: DIY Twin Town, led by Katie Etheridge & Simon Persighetti (image courtesy of artists)

From DIY15: We Robot, led by Hamish McPherson (image courtesy of artist)

From DIY15: Encounters, led by Helena Hunter (image by Mark Peter Wright)

From DIY15: Wild Philosophy: Raving, Running, Reading, led by Joanne Matthews (image by Ali Wates)

From DIY15: Wild Philosophy: Raving, Running, Reading, led by Joanne Matthews (image by Ulijona Odisarija)

From DIY15: Artists and their Families, led by Joshua Sofaer (image credit Geraldine Heaney)

From DIY15: How the Fuck..?, led by Katherine Araniello and Teresa Albor (image courtesy of artists)

From DIY15: How the Fuck..?, led by Katherine Araniello and Teresa Albor (image courtesy of artists)

From DIY15: (Un) Doing Cruising Practice(s), led by Liz Rosenfeld (image courtesy of artist)

From DIY15: SH4ME/[N0 SH4ME], led by Marikiscrycrycry (image courtesy of artist)

From DIY15: Homme de Plume, led by Mary Paterson & Deborah Pearson (image courtesy of artist)

From DIY15: SLEEP, led by Moi Tran (image by Amy Poole)

From DIY15: Afro Diasporic Ritual as Afrofuturist Technology, led by Nwando Ebizie (image courtesy of artist)

From DIY15: Luv 2 H8 U, led by Owen G Parry & Angel Rose (image courtesy of artists)

From DIY15: How do we DEAL and how do we do better/do US?, led by Project O (image courtesy of artists)

From DIY15: PUM, led by Toni Lewis (image courtesy of artist)

From DIY15: Ugly Singing, led by Rhiannon Armstrong & Rachel Mars (image courtesy of artist)

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From DIY15: Wild Philosophy: Raving, Running, Reading, led by Joanne Matthews (image by Ali Wates)

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Part of DIY: 2018

Professional development projects – by artists for artists – across the UK.

DIY: 2018 – Documentation

DIY is LADA’s annual scheme offering professional development opportunities BY artists, FOR artists.

Feedback from lead and participating artists

Part of DIY: 2018

DIY: 2018

DIY: 2018 – Ana de Matos & Ria Hartley: Queer.Actions.360

DIY: 2018 – Ania Bas with Sally O’Reilly & Kit Caless: A New Career In A New Town

DIY: 2018 – Brian Lobel, FK Alexander & Season Butler: FUCK PERFORMANCE ART, GIMME MY BOXSET

DIY: 2018 – Call for Participants

DIY: 2018 – Call for Proposals