2014 marks the 15th Anniversary of the Live Art Development Agency. To celebrate, we are planning a number of activities across the year, including the “15 Minutes With…” podcast series.

There have been seismic shifts across the landscape of Live Art since LADA was founded in 1999 – from an unprecedented institutional embrace to a resurgence of artist-led initiatives, from a proliferation of performance books to a heightened online presence, from an explosion of practice-based research to the formation of new strategies of creative resistance, to cite but a few.

“15 Minutes With…” is a series of short dialogues with some of the exceptional artists and thinkers that LADA has had the pleasure of working with over the last 15 years. Using the lens of the Agency and the occasion of our 15th Anniversary, the dialogues will reflect on how critical some of these shifts have been, not only to Live Art, but to the wider culture of the UK.

There will be a series of “15 Minutes With…” podcasts launched throughout 2014. This podcast invites artist Dickie Beau and academic Professor Gavin Butt to discuss research in relation to Live Art. 

www.thisisliveart.co.uk/projects/15-minutes-with/

This podcast is produced by the Live Art Development Agency in London - www.thisisliveart.co.uk

15 Minutes With…Dickie Beau and Gavin Butt

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

2014 marks the 15th Anniversary of the Live Art Development Agency. To celebrate, we are planning a number of activities across the year, including the “15 Minutes With…” podcast series.

There have been seismic shifts across the landscape of Live Art since LADA was founded in 1999 – from an unprecedented institutional embrace to a resurgence of artist-led initiatives, from a proliferation of performance books to a heightened online presence, from an explosion of practice-based research to the formation of new strategies of creative resistance, to cite but a few.

“15 Minutes With…” is a series of short dialogues with some of the exceptional artists and thinkers that LADA has had the pleasure of working with over the last 15 years. Using the lens of the Agency and the occasion of our 15th Anniversary, the dialogues will reflect on how critical some of these shifts have been, not only to Live Art, but to the wider culture of the UK.

There will be a series of “15 Minutes With…” podcasts launched throughout 2014. This podcast invites Bean and Benjamin Sebastian from ]performance s p a c e [ and Jordan McKenzie to discuss Artist Run Spaces.

www.thisisliveart.co.uk/projects/15-minutes-with/

This podcast is produced by the Live Art Development Agency in London - www.thisisliveart.co.uk

15 Minutes With...Bean & Benjamin and Jordan McKenzie on Artist Run Spaces

LADA and David A Bailey presented FANON Now - on the legacy of 'Mirage: Enigmas Of Race, Difference & Desire' - on  1 October 2015 at LADA (the White Building, Hackney Wick, London).

In 1995 David A Bailey, in collaboration with the ICA and Iniva, curated Mirage: Enigmas Of Race, Difference & Desire at the ICA. This landmark project marked a moment of considering the importance of Franz Fanon and ways in which his writings on post-colonialism, identity, cinema and psychoanalysis intertwined with artistic practices and race.

David has recently received funding from the Arts Council England to research the legacy of the Mirage.

David was joined on October 1, 2015, by artists from the original Mirage project, and artists from subsequent generations, to reflect on the contemporary moment in relation to structural violence, de-colonising culture and relations, and the power of aesthetics and its explorations of complex formations of racial identities.

This was a timely opportunity to look back at Mirage, and review the present and future conditions in relation to the thematic structure set up by the original project.

Contributors included Keith Khan, Barby Asante, Ria Hartley, Selina Thomson, Jamila Johnson Small and Alexandrina Helmsley

Download the original 1995 ICA Bulletin Brochure featuring Mirage: http://goo.gl/BhyqdG

FANON Now - On The Legacy Of  Mirage  Enigmas Of Race, Difference & Desire

02/09/2016

'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 #17 - Marcia Farquhar

Audio Arthole #18 - Marcia Farquhar

Audio Arthole #19 - Marcia Farquhar

16/09/2016

'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 #21 - Marcia Farquhar

25/10/2016

'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 #26 - 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

04/11/2016

'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 #28 - Marcia Farquhar

18/11/2016

'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 #29 - Marcia Farquhar

Audio Arthole #30 - Marcia Farquhar

10/12/2016

'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 #33 - Marcia Farquhar

11/01/2017

'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 #35 - Marcia Farquhar

13/01/2017

'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 #38 - Marcia Farquhar

17/02/2017

'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 #43 - 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

10/03/2017

'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 #46 - 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

07/04/2017

'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 #50 - Marcia Farquhar

21/04/2017

'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 #52 - Marcia Farquhar

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 London as a young man, his return to Italy many years later as an accomplished artist, and, in between, the story of his life and loves and his becoming an artist.

The evening featured contributions from Franko B, Marcia Farquhar, Anna Thew and Dominic Johnson.

“Franko B’s was a painful, unavoidably compromised childhood - a tale in which the calm and quiet features of a family have fled, and he is dropped into a future that he had to forge for himself. Stolen from a conventional destiny, his body rises to become a glorious body - a body of art. It is also an eternal body, since there is a bond between the physical body and the art body. This is the condition of his freedom”. 

Francesca Alfano Miglietti (FAM), curator, writer, art historian

“It’s a truly bewildering journey, brutal at times both as life and as punk literature – a back and forth from orphanage to abusive family home, to squat, to rave, club scene, AIDS activism, political protest and art practice – a trail that manages to be alien and yet somehow entirely recognisable”.

Tim Etchells, artist

“Franko B has the capability of showing us extreme strength and fragility at the same time. This can touch our heart at a very profound level”.

Marina Abramovic, artist

“Franko B is the kindest and gentlest of men —his work, however, is utterly unnerving. This book provides important clues to understanding the gap between the two, and why we should pay attention”.

RoseLee Goldberg, curator, writer, art historian

 

Because of Love is edited by Lois Keidan and Megan Vaughan, with a preface by Tim Etchells, designed by David Caines, illustrated by Giuditta Fullone, and published by Live Art Development Agency, 2018

Special launch price only £10.  Pre-order from Unbound here.

Franko B Book Launch - 14 February 2018

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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 noise, creatively deploying studio technology to create sonic landscapes that reflect the fragmented and contested space of urban and exurban environments. His performances incorporate ritualised antagonism, the intonation of found texts and enigmatic phrases, historical trivia, grunts and howls and the pouring of Special Brew onto the floor as libation for the spirits of the dead. The texts are infested with sphinxes, ghosts and winos. These performances have often taken place in, and are responses to, what nowadays passes for public space.
www.robinbale.blogspot.com

This was commissioned for Edge of an Era, 2018.Edge of an Era (2018) was curated by Helena Goldwater and Rob La Frenais, Alex Eisenberg and Live Art Development Agency. It is produced in partnership with Artsadmin and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, supported using public funding by Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants with additional activities made possible through the Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant from Art Fund.

www.edgeofanera.co.uk

Robin Bale - Yet I Came After

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 downs, worthless heirlooms that carry value through meaning, action and ‘rememberings’ (offered memories) and the language of performance to interrogate meaning, power and our collective social realities.

www.selinabonelli.wordpress.com


(re)collecting (f)ears was shot and edited by Matt Mahoney-Page. The project was produced in partnership with ]performance s p a c e [, Whitstable Biennale and Well Street Projects, with support from Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants.

LADA SCREENS Selina Bonelli Artist Discussion 13 February 2020

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 performances internationally since 1983. He has slammed his body into white walls in order to make a drawing (Marks, 1984); been exhibited in a Lucite display case for two weeks (On Display, 1993); was shipped as freight from city to city (Freight, 1993); became human flotsam risking paranormal death in the Bermuda Triangle (B. T. Exploration, 1996); and was preserved as like a relic beneath glass so as to be walked over to enter an art fair (Gruezi, 2002).

Becoming an Object: An Evening with Skip Arnold

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.

Vanishing Points

'Rest. Stop.' by Salome Wagaine

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

Ally Poole: 45 Beats In The Dark

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.

Walking Home Soundtrack

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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