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 Scarlett & Caridad Svich.

On Circularity - Something Other Live

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”.

Rubiane Maia: 200 Questions About Care

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.


Alternative Realities: A Discussion about Live Art & Gaming with Symoné

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.

Malik Nashad Sharpe: Horror for the Live Context

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.

performing borders x la pocha nostra

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.

100 Ways to Consider Time - An Evening with Marylin Arsem

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20/05/2016

'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquahar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

Audio Arthole #4 - Marcia Farquhar

27/05/2016

'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquahar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

Audio Arthole #5 - Marcia Farquhar

1/07/2016

'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquahar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

Audio Arthole #10 - Marcia Farquhar

22/07/2016

'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquahar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

Audio Arthole #13 - Marcia Farquhar

07/10/2016

'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquahar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

Audio Arthole #23 - Marcia Farquhar

28/10/2016

'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquahar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

Audio Arthole #27 - Marcia Farquhar

20/01/2017

'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquahar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

Audio Arthole #39 - Marcia Farquhar

24/02/2017

'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquahar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

Audio Arthole #44 - Marcia Farquhar

24/03/2017

'Audio Arthole' is a weekly audio broadcast by the 2016 Arthole Artist's Award recipient Marcia Farquhar.

Arthole is a new LADA initiative intended to plug a hole in art funding for open-ended research and professional development.

The annual Award supports a groundbreaking and inspirational UK-based artist working in Live Art with £10,000 to undertake a self determined year-long research and artistic development programme. The Award particularly encourages research into a range of critical, cultural, and practical concepts; dialogues and intergenerational collaborations; and ideas of legacy and future potentials.

Marcia Farquhar is a London based artist known for her work in performance, installation, video and object making. Conceptual in nature, much of her practice revolves around the stories and interactions of everyday life, as well as the engineering of unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is frequently breached. Her site-specific events have been staged and exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, as well as in cinemas, kitchen showrooms, pubs, parks and leisure centres.

Image credit Jem Finer

Audio Arthole #48 - Marcia Farquhar

Marcia is going to record a daily episode for 60 days up to the eve of her sixtieth birthday.

The first ten episodes were already written in January 2014 in response to an invitation, issued by Marcia's friend Sandra Bartoli a Berlin based architect, to be part of an experimental writing project. The idea to write a daily chapter for 60 days was a challenge which she flunked.

Now Marcia has an opportunity to try again before it's too late and she has actually pushed 60.

An Introduction to Pushing 60 - Marcia Farquhar

Pushing 60 Episode 16

Pushing 60 Episode 45

Pushing 60 Episode 47

Pushing 60 Episode 50

Pushing 60 Episode 51

Pushing 60 Episode 58

Letter 2

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.

Vijay Patel in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 19 June 2018

Vacuum Cleaner (James Leadbitter) in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 7 April 2016

Simon Raven in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 28 September 2016

Paul Wady in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 2 September 2016

Jon Adams in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 8 September 2016

Jess Thom (Touretteshero) in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 27 April 2016

Chiron Stamp in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 29 April 2016

Annette Foster in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 28 October 2016

Lucy Hutson in conversation with Daniel Oliver: 9 November 2016

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.

Introduction On Circularity - Diana Damian Martin

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 lecturing and tutoring – she currently tutors neurodivergent learners at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, while maintaining her own diverse art practice. Christina gained a PhD from University of Brighton in 2016 – her phenomenological practice-led research project considered the liminal experience of grief and its re-presentation in film. Her current research interests include somaesthetics, performative writing, shamanism and its relationship to artmaking, and auto-ethnography/place.

Christina Lovey – The A10/Kingsland Road (a selection from)

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 Tania Soubry.

Alexanda Baybutt – Němaɲa

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 unlikely alliances. She works with still and moving image, voice, sound and the written word and is committed to working collectively, participatively and collaboratively.

Sabrina Fuller – The Motion of Waves

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 her company, Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects, continues to focus on collaborative processes. She is devoted to paying attention as a practice of social cooperation. Karen was with Chicago-based Goat Island performance group for 20 years until the group disbanded in 2009. Her practice includes listening for the unnoticed, the almost invisible, and the very quiet.

Karen Christopher – This is not the performance I had in mind

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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