Established in 1999, the Live Art Development Agency has both responded to, and impacted upon, the increasingly influential nature of Live Art practices in the UK and internationally by developing an extensive portfolio of specialized resources, opportunities, projects and publishing activities; and by working strategically, in partnership, and in consultation with practitioners and organisations in the cultural sector.
This is a platform for LADA to share content and recordings of artists as well as commissioned artworks such as Marcia Farquhar, Jen Harvie, Taylan Halici and many others.
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Audio documentation of an evening considering durational performance art with Marilyn Arsem, on Friday 18 April, 2025. Across a 100-day period in 2015-16, Marilyn created one hundred different six-hour performances which took place daily in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Each of these durational works represented a different inquiry on the nature of time. For this special event, Marilyn will present an artist talk reflecting on this body of work and sharing her research on performance art and tim...
Audio documentation of a participatory conversation by performingborders in response to La Pocha Nostra’s commitment to use performativity as a methodology of resistance and to erase the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, and artist and spectator. performingborders has been exploring performance and Live Art practices across notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders since 2016, inspired by La Pocha Nostra’s work. Drawing from Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s publicati...
Audio documentation of a lecture by Malik Nashad Sharpe on the subject 'Horror for the Live context' Artworks referenced and shared by Malik: 1. 'Shoot', Chris Burden, 1971. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZIWs3Dl1k 2. 'Carcasse', Piotr Pavlensky, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKpB0eAKtg 3. 'Rhythm 0', Marina Abramovic, 1974 https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5177 4. 'American Psycho', directed by Mary Harron, 2000 5. 'Nope', Directed by Jordan Peele, 2022 6. '10 Cloverfield Lane', dir...
Audio Documentation from Alternative Realities: A Discussion about Live Art & Gaming with Symoné. This event was part of a Study Room Session on Live Art and Gaming. Find out more on our website Symone, the interdisciplinary performance artist, circus performer, video game designer, and proud member of the Pecs Drag King Collective is currently involved in the development of three mixed-reality experiences that combine theatre, live gaming, circus arts, and immersive digital elements: the au...
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.
Lucy Hutson explores what neurodiversity means to her, encompassing her personal experiences with dyslexia, OCD, anxiety, and depression. She delves into how these traits uniquely shape her live art practice, allowing for unconventional forms of expression and challenging traditional methodologies. The conversation also touches on the complexities of the art world, including funding applications, Q&As, and networking, as well as the importance of finding community and personal integrity amidst strategic demands.
Rubiane Maia’s 200 Questions about Care were developed out of her research as part of the six-month residency with LADA 'Reimagining Care'. The transdisciplinary artist and independent researcher maps different notions and framings of care, calling us to interrogate and expand what we think of when we think about “care”.
LADA is delighted to present the audio screening of Walking Home, Alisa Oleva’s first film, created in the context of Performistanbul’s residency programme for performance artists on theme of ‘home’. For her residency in Istanbul in March 2020, Alisa Oleva had planned to invite participants who self-identify as women to one-to-one performances during which they would ‘walk her home’, discussing what home meant for them as they walked. Due to the pandemic the performances had to be completely re-...
A Soundwalk in the Dark is presented for headphones. An anonymous voice, leads the listener through an unnamed woods, where the listener falls through leaves and is taken through several narrated sensorial worlds. The journey pushes the conflict between reality and fiction, the improbability of time and becoming a person that you are not. The piece is a response to Janet Cardiff and her series of soundwalks. "Soundwalking is a creative and research practice that involves listening and sometimes ...
Something Other Live is a series of experimental writing and performance events which act as companions to each themed Chapter published by Something Other collective. Something Other’s upcoming event follows a call out on circularity, searching for queer ways of occupying the present and its differences. This will unfold as a collective listening event online. Please join us here on Tuesday 5th May 8pm as we gather to listen to sounds from: Alexandra Baybutt, Barbara Bridger and Hari Marini, Ka...
In SPIRALS, CIRCLES, GALAXIES, Barbara Bridger, Georgia Kalogeropoulou, Hari Marini and Noelia Diaz Vicedo (collaborating as PartSuspended) reflect on six stills from Spirals, a video-poem collaboration filmed in leftover spaces in London, Broadstairs, Barcelona, Belgrade, Coventry and Athens. PartSuspended is a multidisciplinary dynamic platform co-founded by Hari Marini in 2006. PartSuspended fosters performances and collaborations between artists from a variety of disciplines such as performa...
New Words is a selection of WhatsApp messages sent between Libby and a person she loved in another country between 2014 and 2019, read backwards. Libby Scarlett is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. Her practice is interested in the transformative nature of interaction and lived experience. Flaws in communication and encounters are highlighted as sites for potential adjustment or movement. From these, she creates sets of circumstances or boundaries to explore notions of change and growth. ...
Midnight Mass is a looping phone conversation for one voice, in which identity looses its footing in an unstable environment. Ben Kulvichit is a theatre and performance maker. He is co-artistic director of Emergency Chorus and an associate artist of Chris Goode and Company. As a critic and writer, he is co-editor of Exeunt Magazine and recently worked as a contributor and deputy editor for Diverse Actions and LADA’s publication Vanishing Points. Nat Norland is a sound designer, writer and direct...
A visual art performer examines her experience as witness to a durational action; it all comes full circle at John Court’s work, presented by OUI Performance. Laurel Jay Carpenter’s durational performances have been presented across the USA, UK, Scandinavia, Western and Eastern Europe, most notably as part of the 2007 Venice Biennale, the 2013 Festspillene i Bergen (Norway) and the 2019 Prague Quadrennial. She regularly collaborates with Norwegian artist Terese Longva as Longva+Carpenter, and wa...
Refusing Tea is a delicate poem that circles in silences, selves and intimacy. Marianne Habeshaw is a Teaching Assistant and Poet/Playwright based in Hackney, London. She wrote a play with the Eastern Angles Young Writers Group called The Snowflakes in The Slow Cooker, which was performed in June 2019.
My Fecund Father is a meditation on the familiar and the unfamiliar, and how we grow. Eirini Kartsaki is a performance practitioner, writer and Lecturer in Drama at East 15 Acting School, University of Essex. Her writing is concerned with notions of desire, repetition and the unfulfilled. She is the author of Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces (Palgrave, 2017). Her performance practice has been presented nationally and internationally (Sadler’s Wells, V&A, The Basement, ...
