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 a ...
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100 Ways to Consider Time - An Evening with Marylin Arsem
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1:05:53Audio 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…
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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 …
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Malik Nashad Sharpe: Horror for the Live Context
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42:29Audio 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=drZIWs3Dl1k2. 'Carcasse', Piotr Pavlensky, 2013https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKpB0eAKtg3. 'Rhythm 0', Marina Abramovic, 1974https://www.guggen…
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Alternative Realities: A Discussion about Live Art & Gaming with Symoné
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54:22Audio 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 inv…
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Vijay Patel in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 19 June 2018
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39:47A 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.…
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Vacuum Cleaner (James Leadbitter) in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 7 April 2016
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47:11A 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.…
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Simon Raven in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 28 September 2016
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44:45A 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.…
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Paul Wady in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 2 September 2016
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41:03A 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.…
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Oozing Gloop in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 29 April 2016
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40:10A 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.…
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Nwando Ebizie in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 23 October 2018
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50:24A 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.…
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Luke Ferris in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 26 October 2016
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1:00:36A 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.…
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Jon Adams in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 8 September 2016
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49:36A 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.…
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Jess Thom (Touretteshero) in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 27 April 2016
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28:03A 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.…
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FK Alexander in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 3 October 2016
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56:33A 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.…
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Chiron Stamp in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 29 April 2016
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48:45A 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.…
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Annette Foster in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 28 October 2016
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45:37A 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.…
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Lucy Hutson in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 9 November 2016
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45:10A 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.…
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Anne Bean: You can see further in the dark
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15:05written on April 10th 2020Please listen in the dark or with your eyes closed, not in front of a screen.with thanks to Nicol ParkinsonBy LADA
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My Heart Is Mine as It Is Yours and OursBy LADA
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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”.…
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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 durin…
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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…
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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 e…
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PartSuspended – SPIRALS, CIRCLES, GALAXIES
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17:34In 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…
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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…
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Ben Kulvichit and Nat Norland- Midnight Mass
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8:48Midnight 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 work…
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Laurel Jay Carpenter – Circular Magic: John Court in York
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11:21A 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 Fests…
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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.…
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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 I…
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On Circularity is a poem written in isolation.Mary Paterson is a writer and artist, and one of the co-founders of Something Other.By LADA
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A memory tape from the past, pointing toward the future. Desert winds along the highway.Caridad Svich is a text-builder and theatre-maker (hybrid and otherwise). She’s written lots of plays and things, most recently RED BIKE, which sustained a rolling world premiere. She has two collections of her work published by Intellect UK., and has also edite…
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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 e…
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In The Motion of Waves Sabrina Fuller layers voices and memories of feminisms and freedoms.Sabrina Fuller is interested in how groups and individuals respond and react to society’s expectations: how objectification and exclusion from mainstream society can give license to chart other ways of being, and how a classification as Other allows a freedom…
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Christina Lovey – The A10/Kingsland Road (a selection from)
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11:30The A10/Kingsland Road (a selection from) is a performative meditation on time, place, memory and affect.Dr Christina Lovey is a performance artist working with text, photography and film, rhythm tap dance and ritual. Her work considers experience and uses multiple modes to re-present aspects of experience. Christina studied performance art at Midd…
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Němaɲa is a reflection on memory, friendship and not letting go.Alexanda Baybutt works in art, movement education, and research. Recent creations include a PhD on the imperceptible politics of festival curation in the former Yugoslav space. She sustains collaborations across Europe with choreographer Stephanie Felber, and with artist Ivan Mijačević…
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Karen Christopher – This is not the performance I had in mind
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3:04In This is not the performance I had in mind (a recorded version of the text Wingman day one and beyond), circularity works in the form of returns–returns to a place, to a conversation, to an idea–and the swirl patterns produced by those returns.Karen Christopher is a collaborative performance maker, performer, and teacher. She recently relocated f…
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Spirals - Circles - Galaxies Part Suspended
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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 e…
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Introduction On Circularity - Diana Damian Martin
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Diana Damian Martin – Formular de declarație pe proprie răspundere
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3:00On completing a form for movement.Diana Damian Martin is an artist and researcher, and one of the co-hosts of Something Other.By LADA
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In this track, Salome Wagaine reads her essay 'Rest. Stop.' from 'Vanishing Points'.'Vanishing Points' is a new anthology of cultural criticism, focusing on the making, watching and conditions of Live Art and performance in the UK today. 'Vanishing Points' is edited by Salome Wagaine, with deputy editors Ava Wong Davies and Ben Kulvichit, and desig…
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Becoming an Object: An Evening with Skip Arnold
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1:09:29Writer and academic Dominic Johnson hosts a rare UK appearance by the US (French based) artist Skip Arnold. They will screen a selection of Skip’s videos and other documents, and discuss the body, duration, intervention, commitment, and documentation. Skip Arnold is a significant artist who works primarily in public, durational and/or behavioural a…
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LADA SCREENS Selina Bonelli Artist Discussion 13 February 2020
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38:47From our series of LADA Screens events, we present an introduction to the work of artist Selina Bonelli by Joseph Morgan Scholfeld, followed by an artist Q&A. Selina's film '(re)collecting (f)ears' is available as part of our online screening programme here:https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/events/lada-screens-selina-bonelli-online-screening/In their…
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For Edge of an Era - Robin Bale has responded to BLED EDGE by Alastair MacLennan (EDGE 88). Robin Bale is a London-based poet/performer and sound artist. He makes improvised performances utilising verbal and non-verbal vocalisation and musical equipment, including self-built instruments. He also makes recordings that experiment with aural space and…
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Letter 2 by LADABy LADA
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The launch of Lexicon of Tanjas Ostoji? (2011-17) took place on 6th March 2018 at LADA. This is an audio recording of the event. The launch will included contributions from Tanja Ostoji?, the writer and curator Adrian Heathfield, the curator and writer Alessandra Cianetti of performingborders, and Teresa Albor from the art collective GRACE.The publ…
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I wanted to tell my story, or more like try to make sense of what my story was, or what I thought it was.’ Franko BFranko B is an extraordinary, internationally acclaimed artist who has been making drawings, installations, sculptures, and performances for over 30 years. Because of Love tells the story of his childhood in Italy in an orphanage and a…
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Pushing 60 Episode 60 by LADABy LADA
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