Live Art Listening

DIT 2026: Campfire Disco! – Call For Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: Prove Your Human – Call For Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: Make FUNding FUN again – Call For Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: We Showgirls are Offline – Call For Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: Prove Your Human – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: Campfire Disco! – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: Make FUNding FUN again – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: We Showgirls Are Offline – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: Our Bodies Are Flooded With Entangled Histories – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: Our Bodies Are Flooded With Entangled Histories – Call For Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: Making Weather – Call For Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: Making Weather – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: Birth the Musical – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: Birth the Musical – Call For Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: The Body at Sea – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: The LABUBU EFFECT – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: The LABUBU EFFECT – Call for Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: Disciplined – Call for Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: The Body at Sea – Call for Participating Artists by LADA

DIT 2026: Disciplined – Application Form by LADA

DIT 2026: The Body at Sea – Application Form by LADA

DIT Application Form by LADA

DIT FAQs by LADA

DIT Call for Proposals by LADA

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 time. Following the talk, there will be a Q&A chaired by curator Joseph Morgan Schofield. This event is curated by Future Ritual as an extension of their festival CEREMONY, taking place in London between 23rd and 27th April, for which Marilyn Arsem is making a new performance. CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. Further support towards the project has been given by the Mayor of London.

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 publication Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back (2000), they delve into LADA Study Room’s resources around borders and performances, including the Performing Borders Study Room Guide. They also draw from their own archive to highlight artists whose practices challenge the diversity of experiences at the intersections of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical, economic, and everyday borders.

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', directed by Dan Trachtenberg, 2016 7. 'Saw', directed by James Wan, 2004 8. 'Le Manoir de Diable', directed by Goerge Meillies, 1890 9. 'All of us are Dead', directed by Lee Jae-kyoo; Kim Nam-su, 2022 10. 'Untitled Nostalgia 3', Tiraan Willemse, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidYGnnYZRQ 11. 'Presage', Elie Autins, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_lWSh_Zr4 12. 'Goner', Malik Nashad Sharpe, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DbxNw-QiSI Malik Nashad Sharpe – otherwise known as Marikiscrycrycry – has been investigating the emergence of horror in contemporary live performance as well as the use of it in his own practice. During his Study Room residency at LADA he approached horror as a research tool to tease out an alternative tradition of choreographic practice that contains social resonance and fantastical outcomes, and constitutes a suggestive and speculative lens through which performance can be contextualised. Culminating his residency, this talk will highlight some of the utility of making horror as a performance practice, and explore the genre’s potential as a framework for seeing, reading and working with contemporary live performance.

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 audio installation/glitchy sensorial mixed-reality experience A Dream Within A Dream, the video game Highway to Infinity, and the theatre production Nullspace Motel in collaboration with Sammy Metcalfe (Sleepwalk Collective). During this event, Symoné shared her process of creating Dream Within A Dream and opened up to a group discussion about how Live Art, technology and gaming intersect with queerness and alternative narratives.

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.

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.

written on April 10th 2020 Please listen in the dark or with your eyes closed, not in front of a screen. with thanks to Nicol Parkinson

My Heart Is Mine as It Is Yours and Ours

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-imagined as remote encounters. At agreed dates and times over the course of three weeks, the participating women went to designated starting points in Istanbul and walked to a place where each of them felt ‘at home’. At the same time, Alisa was walking in London and connecting with each woman on the phone, sharing their footsteps, their breathing and their conversation on what home means. The film Walking Home is a record of these encounters.

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 recording while moving through a place at a walking pace. It is concerned with the relationship between soundwalkers and their surrounding sonic environment." My intent was to take this principal of soundwalking and create a piece for an individual, to be experienced in total darkness. So, a soundwalk, without the walking. https://soundcloud.com/allypoolesound/45-beats-a-soundwalk-in-the-dark Bio - Ally Poole is a multidisciplinary artist working between the US and the UK. Her practice is an exploration of being both performer and sound artist utilizing sound to transform space. Her work is a blend of live art, theatre and installation while covering issues of race, politics and pop culture through her perspective as a Black American. Ally is a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she received an MFA in Advance Theatre Practice. https://www.allypoole.com Photo Credit: designed by Ally Poole

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, Karen Christopher, Sabrina Fuller, Laurel Jay Carpenter, Eirini Kartsaki, Ben Kulvichit and Nat Norland, Marianne Habeshaw, Christina Lovey, Libby Scarlette & Caridad Svich.

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 performance, photography, poetry, video and music. Since 2013 PartSuspended has been engaged in the Spirals project: an ongoing collaborative and multidisciplinary project of international artists, that brings together poetry, performance and music in various cities, to create video poems and live performances. Barbara Bridger taught Theatre and Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts between 1990 and 2010 and is currently an independent writer, director and dramaturg. Hari Marini is a London-based performance maker, independent writer and founding member of PartSuspended group. Her writing, practice and research are focused on poetics of spaces, performative architectures and women’s writing. Georgia Kalogeropoulou is a London based researcher, musician and performer. Her academic interests are centered around Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of time. Noelia Diaz Vicedo is a poet, academic and translator. She combines university teaching with research on contemporary women’s poetry and gender studies.

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. She is also part of artist-architect duo Studio Tej.

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 director. He makes theatre with his company Why This Sky. He has designed sound and music for work by Emergency Chorus and Joseph Morgan Schofield, and is currently studying for an MA in Performance Design and Practice at Central St. Martins.