Live Art Listening

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 Qua...

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...

On Circularity is a poem written in isolation. Mary Paterson is a writer and artist, and one of the co-founders of Something Other.

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 edited books on theatre for TCG, Methuen Drama, Manche...

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 M...

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 to develop the language of difference and form u...

The 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 Middlesex and worked in applied theatre, before lectu...

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, and works as a dramaturg with choreographer Tan...

In 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 from London to her new studio in Faversham where h...

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 M...

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 M...

On completing a form for movement. Diana Damian Martin is an artist and researcher, and one of the co-hosts of Something Other.

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 M...

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 designed by Chani Wisdom.

Writer 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 actions and “activities”, and has created performan...

From 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 work Selina uses artefacts, unwanted hand me do...

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 noise, creatively deploying studio technology to...

Letter 2 by LADA

Letter 1 by LADA

Letter 3 by LADA

The launch of Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić (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 Ostojić, the writer and curator Adrian Heathfield, the curator and writer Alessandra Cianetti of performingborders, and Teresa Albor from the art collective GRACE. The publication is based on an interdisciplinary particip...

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 B Franko 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 at the hands of his abusive family, his journey to...

Pushing 60 Episode 60 by LADA

Pushing 60 Episode 59 by LADA