LADA and Swiss Live Art

Research Residencies

The first two Study Room residencies were undertaken by the Zurich based artist Ivy Monteiro in July 2019, and by the Basel based Performance artist, curator, networker and member of PANCH (Performance Art Network CH) Andrea Saemann in October 2019 and February 2020.

Ivy used their residency to deepen their research into concepts such as ancestrality, prostitution, race, metaphysical connections whilst also engaging with artists in the UK. Ivy presented a public performance lecture about their work and ideas of queer spirituality and Afrofuturism at LADA in July 2019.

Andrea used her residency to look at questions of documentation and archives and the relation of contemporary performance artists with their remnants or artworks outside of the live moment itself. In February 2020 Andrea presented a public performance lecture on performance and photography. Andrea also contributed to public events about the current Swiss Live Art scene/s taking place at LADA on 8 October and at Fierce Festival, Birmingham on 19 October.

Following a call for proposals from artists to undertake research residencies, the next two residencies will be with Maïté Chénière in April 2020 and Parvez Iman. These were to take place in April and May 2020, but both residencies have been postponed because of the impact of Covid and will be rescheduled for later in 2020.

All the artists who will undertake research residencies will write blog posts about their work and research, to be published on our blog. Please look out for these, and for details of other initiatives around Swiss Live Art.