Are you an artist, producer or curator working with or inspired by digital art, live performance and avant-garde storytelling? Join us on Saturday 30 November, 1-2.30pm for a discussion with Symoné.
🎫 Free, but please RSVP: tinyurl.com/mr35p3ec
ALT A video game rendered image from Symone's game 'Highway to Infinity': a black woman with blue spiky hair and wearing an orange harness, sits inside a car, gazing off into the middle distance. It's dark outside the car, and the atmosphere is one of anticipation. A speech bubble reads 'You know who you are, You have always known'
The Eleusinian Projector: Screening & Discussion with Ron Athey
On Sunday 27 October at 4pm, LADA and Queen Mary University of London present a discussion between 𝐑𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 and 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧.
🎟️ Free, but please RSVP: tinyurl.com/5n79mevp
ALT A dramatically lit photograph of the artist (a white man) against a black background, taken from a low angle, showing only his head and shoulders. He wears a gold metal crown, on which elastic cords are attached to hooks in his face, pulling his skin upwards. He is applying white powder to his face
We are relaunching our Desk Scheme!
Are you an artist, producer, curator, researcher or writer? Apply by 12noon, Friday 15 November for a subsidised desk space in Bethnal Green.
tinyurl.com/m3yerubj
ALT Photo of LADA's Desk Scheme space. Two light grey desks in front of a window. On the desk on the left there is a grey laptop, a pile of books, an open notebook, a French press and a pink mug. There are two plants, one next to it and one behind it.
A selection of Study Room titles by Madinah Farhannah Thompson, drawn upon during her research as a Black Artist in Residence in 2023.
Join us this Friday for ‘All Flesh is Good: Madinah Farhannah Thompson in conversation with Valerie Uchechukwu Ebuwa'.
tinyurl.com/4t6d3mtu
ALT Pile of books on a desk, in an office space. The books are:
Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma - Bryoni Trezise, Caroline Wake
Archive Fever - Jacques Derrida
The Emancipated Spectator - Jacques Rancière
The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia - Sabrina Strings
We're just over 3 weeks away from #FIERCE2024!
Have you seen our festival trailer yet? If not, give it a watch below, then get yourselves over to wearefierce.org to grab your tickets!
vimeo.com/1009910391
Documentation from Poppy Jackson’s Tower, a performance that took place in Wattisfield, Suffolk on Wednesday 25 September.
More photos from Tower are available here: tinyurl.com/37y6r2n2
📷 Photos by Bill Jackson
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Documentation of a performance taking place in different locations within a British rural landscape. The performer is a white woman in her 40s, and she’s performing wearing just a slide harness throughout.
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Documentation of a performance taking place in different locations within a British rural landscape. The performer is a white woman in her 40s, and she’s performing wearing just a slide harness throughout.
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Documentation of a performance taking place in different locations within a British rural landscape. The performer is a white woman in her 40s, and she’s performing wearing just a slide harness throughout.
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Documentation of a performance taking place in different locations within a British rural landscape. The performer is a white woman in her 40s, and she’s performing wearing just a slide harness throughout.
All Flesh is Good: Madinah Farhannah Thompson in conversation with Valerie Uchechukwu Ebuwa
📍 Live Art Development Agency
📅 Friday 11 October, 7pm
tinyurl.com/4t6d3mtu
ALT Gallery view of Madinah Farhannah Thompson re-performing 'Nude with Skeleton’ at the Royal Academy of Arts. Madinah is lying on the floor naked, with a human skeleton placed on top of her.
📷 Madinah Farhannah Thompson re-performs 'Nude with Skeleton, 2002/2005/2023' at the Royal Academy of Arts. Image credit David Parry / Royal Academy of Arts.
We are thrilled to announce the publication of long-time LADA collaborator Andrea Pagnes’s book “Notes from Isolation - A logbook of thoughts and ‘momentum’ conversations in times of plagues”.
📚 Purchase it from @thisisunbound here: tinyurl.com/2f7z5pky
ALT The cover of Notes from isolation on a beige surface. The cover is silver and features the drawing of an abstract figure and the LADA logo.
ALT Black and white close-up of artist and writer Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage), gazing into the distance with shadowed lighting.
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Communications Producer to join our team. In this role, you’ll help share our voice and amplify our mission, collaborating with our team to create stories that resonate and spark conversations. DL: 10/10/24 axisweb.org/blog/join-our-te…
LADA x @fringefilmfest! Uncensored Pleasures & Closeted Desires
This year we're letting Fringe! run amuck in LADA’s Study Room with an exhibition and open-mic poetry event. Join us!
Uncensored Pleasures tinyurl.com/euk3tfhn
Closeted Desires tinyurl.com/4pff5nrj
ALT Black and white photo from a party. Two people are hugging, we only see the back of one of them. They’re wearing black leather trousers with the text ‘please mummy xx’, a white tank top and chains
ALT Photo from a performance. A performer with short hair wearing tight black clothes and stiletto heels is on stage and using a chair as a prop
We are delighted to invite you to Poppy Jackson's Tower, a performance taking place in Wattisfield, Suffolk, as the culmination of the year-long programme Pathways Home.
📅Wednesday 25 September 2024, 5.30pm
ℹ️ tinyurl.com/37y6r2n2
ALT A woman's foam-covered feet and menstrual bloody legs point to the sky with a telegraph pole in the distance between them.
The performance ‘When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble’ by Miranda Whall premiered at the Theatr y Werin, Aberystwyth Arts Centre on 8 June 2024.
You can now watch the film ‘When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble’ by filmmaker Amy Daniel on our website: tinyurl.com/484hew7x
ALT Documentation from a performance taking place outdoors at dusk. A human figure is in the middle of the photo, wearing black loose clothes and a head torch, and raising their arms towards the sky.
We are having a summer break!
LADA will be closed 8th-19th August inclusive, the Garrett Centre will not be open to the public and most operations will be paused. From 20th August on, you can book to visit the Study Room via our Eventbrite page (tinyurl.com/2r9r4y2w).
ALT Photo of the Garrett Centre with the text 'LADA Summer Break'
We will continue to operate @thisisunbound during this time, so if you would like to purchase books for delivery or pick-up, you can do this as usual. You can also email unbound@thisisliveart.co.uk with any relevant enquiries.
Photos from the event ‘La Pocha Nostra in London: 100 Ways to Cross the Border’ are now on our website!
Check them out here: tinyurl.com/tmmdh9r2
📷: Devika Bilimoria
ALT Photo of a monitor displaying a b&w image of Guillermo Gómez-Peña
ALT B&w photo of a group hug inside a lecture theatre
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