Podcasts about live art development agency

Oriana Fox interviews artist Chinasa Vivian Ezugha about her recent projects and the role her early work and upbringing in Nigeria have played in encouraging her political voice. Fittingly, she is currently developing an ambitious, multidisciplinary project speaking out against the use of food scarcity as a weapon of war; and is culminating her practical and doctoral research on glossolalia. Importantly, she also discusses her tenure as co-director of the Live Art Development Agency in London and the lessons she gleaned about creating safe spaces and the personal boundaries required to enable them.  Chinasa Vivian Ezugha is a Nigerian-born, British performance artist, scholar and PhD candidate at University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Currently, she is the Assistant Professor of Live Art/Art as Social Practice at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Her current research focuses on the voice of glossolalia and aims to expand this vocal practice beyond the walls of a church. Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.Credits:Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana FoxOriginal theme song written and performed by Paulette HumanbeingSpecial Thanks to Gavin Butt, Lara Perry, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson and Janak Patel***Would you like to see your name in the above credits list? In a couple of short steps, you can make that happen by supporting this podcast via Patreon.***Send us a textVisit www.theoshow.live for regular updates or follow us on Instagram.

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Katy Baird (@thenewlookkatyb) As an artist Katy has performed at performance festivals and venues across Europe as well as squat parties, clubs and raves.Her debut studio-based performance Workshy, a show about work and the things we do for money, was a smash hit and toured internationally to over 30 cities.She has received commissions from Battersea Arts Centre, Wellcome Trust, The Yard Theatre, Camden People's Theatre and Duckie amongst others. Since 2016 she has been artist in residence at queer club night Knickerbocker.She is currently working on a new solo show entitled Get Off, due to be touring 2023/24As a Curator she founded and co-produces Steakhouse Live, a DIY platform in London for radical performance practices and is currently Artistic Director of Home Live Art, producers of live events across Hastings, the South East and beyond.Katy has also worked as an independent producer at Fierce Festival (Birmingham) and Manchester International Festival, as well as a guest lecturer at the University of Chichester, Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College, Goldsmiths University, University of East London and University of Dundee.From 2012-2017 she worked as Coordinator at the Live Art Development Agency in London. For more information on the work of Katy Baird go tohttps://katybaird.com Thanks to Anna @abstraktpublicity for the connection*Cover Image via:@JMA.Photo To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.orgEmail: ministryofartsorg@gmail.comSocial Media: @ministryofartsorg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Martin O'Brien (@martinobrienart)Martin O'Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. He has shown work throughout the UK; Europe; USA; and Canada, and is well known for his solo performances and collaborations with the legendary LA artist and dominatrix Sheree Rose.Martin is currently Writer in in Residence 2023, Whitechapel GalleryHe is winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Visual and Performing Arts 2022. He will be writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery throughout 2023. Martin has cystic fibrosis and all of his work and writing draws upon this experience. In 2018, the book ‘Survival of the Sickest: The Art of Martin O'Brien' was published by Live Art Development Agency. His work has been featured on BBC radio and Sky Arts television. He is currently senior lecturer in Live Art at Queen Mary University of London.​For more information on the work of Martin O'Brien go tohttp://www.martinobrienart.co.ukThanks to @abstraktpublicity for making this connectionTo Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofartsFor full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.orgEmail: ministryofartsorg@gmail.comSocial Media: @ministryofartsorg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May is here and full of the joys of Spring. Here at The Earth Sea Love Podcast, we're full of joy to bring you this conversation with the wonderful Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson.  Lateisha is a Black queer feminist interdisciplinary artist and social-justice practitioner/community-healing organiser of Jamaican heritage based in London.  Within this episode with your host Dr. Sheree Mack, Lateisha talks about: * focusing on how we feel instead of what we want * water connections and healings * community land trusts  * listening and asking questions * who do you be instead of what do you do? * creating healing spaces for community * having the purpose of staying alive * trauma living in the body  * being in right relationship with ourselves and nature * revolution and liberation = community * rest and safety * grieving and nature * our ancestors' relationships to water and the land and recognising  * making spaces for joy and play in nature * how we repair and heal what colonialism has done and been doing * bringing our words into the word takes time and creative fugitivity * doing the work to unshame self * burn out can teach us many things * "we're gonna be alright!" x   Bio: Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson is a Black queer feminist interdisciplinary artist and social-justice practitioner/community-healing organiser of Jamaican heritage based in London. Their writing, art-making, facilitation, consultancy and nature-work practices are tools to creatively embody knowledges that interrupt ongoing systems of colonial-imperial oppression(s), in order to activate spaces for deep healing. In their practice they meditate + dream upon what it means to be well? To connect, belong and love freely.  Their transformative lived experiences of gender, race, class, survivorship, neurodivergence and illness inform their offerings and approaches - being drawn to the revolutionary possibilities of sci-fi / eco-futurism, magic + ritual + ceremony and communal gathering-archiving as ancestral pathways and political strategies to reimagine resistance and remember revolutionary possibilities for the new world in creation.  Lateisha is currently working on their debut poetry pamphlet, ~the heart is a holding~  supported by Rotterdam residences: International Collaborative Urban art projects  / Foundation B.a.d and published by Burning Eye Books Autumn 2023. They are also developing their interdisciplinary performance - installation work s/he breathe/s,  supported by Raze Collective, Stanley Arts and Arts Council England showing in Summer 2023. You can also visit their current work Meeting At The Altar Of Us, a collaborative text and sound work offering as part of Bloom Collective's contributions to Meera Shakti Osborne's department of Unruly histories archive and exhibition at Cubitt in spring 2023.  Previous work includes An Offering // an installation of a world-building, to come- back to home…  weaving poetry-film, sound, documentary, text, and plant medicine portals. Commissioned residency and exhibition by Bethlem Gallery: An Ecology Of Mind (2022). Lateisha has written extensively through residencies and commissions, including  Camden Art Centre: The Botanical Mind, Wretched Of The Earth (BIPOC climate justice collective), [Performance space]: PSX 10, Live Art Development Agency, Artsadmin: Apocalypse Reading Room curated by Ama Josephine Budge, Chelsea Physic Garden: Queer Botany, Apples & Snakes, She Grrrowls, Dada Fest / Yewande 103 and is a Roundhouse and Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam Finalist.  Lateisha facilitates community-healing workshops and activity-based immersive installations across art, education and community spaces. Including, Queer Youth Art Collective, Healing Justice Ldn and Colours LGBTIQIA+ youth arts as well as institutions incl. Migration museum, Barbican and Autograph. They founded TO THE RITUAL KNOWLEDGE OF REMEMBERING - that took shape as an immersive 3 day coastal retreat supported by LADA, and online public-programme as part of 12o collective's curator residency (2020-2021). You can connect with Lateisha here @lateisha_davine or pop down to Hackney City Farm where they are training as a Beekeeper

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Lois Keidan   Lois Keidan is a British-born cultural activist and writer. Until recently, she was the Director of the Live Art Development Agency which she co-founded with Catherine Ugwu in 1999. She was the former director of live arts at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) from 1992 to 1997. Prior to working at the ICA, she was responsible for national policy and provision for Performance Art and interdisciplinary practices at the Arts Council of Great Britain.   Keidan is a major proponent and advocate for live art in the UK and has been instrumental in the development and support of artists who have tended to be 'marginalised, misunderstood and misrepresented...".   Keidan has regularly written articles and edited books on performance and live art and made contributions to a range of journals and publications. She regularly gives talks and presentations on performance and live art at festivals, colleges, venues and conferences in Britain and internationally.   For more information on the work of Lois Keidan go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Keidan   To Support this podcast from as little as £3 per month: www.patreon/ministryofarts   For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com Social Media: @ministryofartsorg

In this second of a series of collaborative Podcasts with the Ifi @irishfilminstitute @paulbutlerlennox speaks with Viusl Artist and Filmmaker Susan Thompson. This Episode is Produced and mixed by Larry McGowen. As always we're grateful to Wildcard Distribution, Film Equiptment Store and Octovid.com for their wonderful support of our show. Susan Thomson is a writer and filmmaker based in Dublin and Brighton. She holds a Masters in European Literature and Film from Magdalen College, Oxford University, an MA in Modern Languages from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a Masters in Fine Art from IADT, Dublin. She has received numerous bursaries and project awards from the Arts Council. Her artist's book The Swimming Diaries is available from Artbook @ MoMA PS1, New York, the ibookstore and is held in the collection of the Live Art Development Agency, and she has written for many publications including Circa, IMMA magazine, the Times, Women's News, GCN and JSTOR. We discuss her Film Ghost Empire Belize. Part of a trilogy of films exploring the legacy of British colonial rule and the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people in 34 countries around the world, Irish-based artist-filmmaker Susan Thomson examines the constitutional challenge taken by Belizean activist Caleb Orozco against Section 53, a 19th century British colonial law criminalising acts ‘against the order of nature'. Opposition to the case by evangelical Christian groups has included symbolic hangings of an effigy of LGBTQ+ group UNIBAM. The film is a psychological portrait of Orozco's resistance and sacrifice and the validation of his efforts at the UK Parliament, and at the UN where he is congratulated by then vice president Joe Biden. Susan's important work to highlight injustices against LGBTQ+ communities can be viewed on her website.  https://www.susanthomson.co.uk/ If you'd like to support the show you can subscribe on Headstuff+ or visit BuyMeACoffee.com/fni and Purchase us a coffee or become a member. #WeAreEncouraging #wearecreating #wearesupporting #WeAreFni. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this second of a series of collaborative Podcasts with the Ifi @irishfilminstitute @paulbutlerlennox speaks with Viusl Artist and Filmmaker Susan Thompson. This Episode is Produced and mixed by Larry McGowen. As always we're grateful to Wildcard Distribution, Film Equiptment Store and Octovid.com for their wonderful support of our show. Susan Thomson is a writer and filmmaker based in Dublin and Brighton. She holds a Masters in European Literature and Film from Magdalen College, Oxford University, an MA in Modern Languages from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a Masters in Fine Art from IADT, Dublin. She has received numerous bursaries and project awards from the Arts Council. Her artist's book The Swimming Diaries is available from Artbook @ MoMA PS1, New York, the ibookstore and is held in the collection of the Live Art Development Agency, and she has written for many publications including Circa, IMMA magazine, the Times, Women's News, GCN and JSTOR. We discuss her Film Ghost Empire Belize. Part of a trilogy of films exploring the legacy of British colonial rule and the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people in 34 countries around the world, Irish-based artist-filmmaker Susan Thomson examines the constitutional challenge taken by Belizean activist Caleb Orozco against Section 53, a 19th century British colonial law criminalising acts ‘against the order of nature'. Opposition to the case by evangelical Christian groups has included symbolic hangings of an effigy of LGBTQ+ group UNIBAM. The film is a psychological portrait of Orozco's resistance and sacrifice and the validation of his efforts at the UK Parliament, and at the UN where he is congratulated by then vice president Joe Biden. Susan's important work to highlight injustices against LGBTQ+ communities can be viewed on her website.  https://www.susanthomson.co.uk/ If you'd like to support the show you can subscribe on Headstuff+ or visit BuyMeACoffee.com/fni and Purchase us a coffee or become a member. #WeAreEncouraging #wearecreating #wearesupporting #WeAreFni.

Annie Jael Kwan is a curator and researcher whose exhibition-making, programming, publication and teaching practice is located at the intersection of contemporary art, cultural and pedagogical activism with an interest in archives, feminist, queer and alternative histories and knowledges, collective practice and solidarity. She is founder of Something Human, a curatorial platform focusing on intersectional live art that launched the landmark Southeast Asia Performance Collection in London in 2017, co-founder of Asia-Art-Activism, the interdisciplinary research network exploring the paradigm of "Asia" and its proximities in art and activism. She is the recipient of a Diverse Actions Leadership Award 2019, and the founding council member of Asia Forum 2021/2022 that will have its inaugural programme in Venice in 2021 at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia. Southeast Asia Performance Collection, launched by Something Human at the Live Art Development Agency 2017. Production photo from ‘I am LGB’ (2016), The LGB Society of Mind. Singapore International Festival of Arts 2016. Photo by Wan Zhong Ha Till We Meet Again IRL, Best Wishes, Asia-Art-Activism, 2020, co-curated by Annie Jael Kwan, Arianna Mercado, Cuong Pham and Howl Yuan, with the support of the Bagri Foundation and Arts Council England. Image courtesy of Yarli Allison.

Writer and scholar Theron Schmidt leads an artist-centred conversation celebrating the launch of his new book Agency: A Partial History of Live Art (2019). A collection of dialogues and provocations from radical artists and thinkers around the world, Agency explores how and when we make possibility for action in the face of what oppresses us. Agency was commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Live Art Development Agency in London. For this conversation, Theron is joined by Sydney-based artists Brian Fuata and Sarah Rodigari. Podcast music: Other Tempo by Lauren Brincat, recorded live for Liveworks 2019. Image: Cassils, Inextinguishable Fire, SPILL Festival of Performance, London (2015), produced by Pacitti Company. Image Guido Mencari. © Cassils 2015. Image courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts

In this episode of Queers & Co., I’m joined by Dr. Charlotte Cooper, psychotherapist, cultural worker and the author of Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement and the newly updated Fat Activist Vernacular. We chat about what it means to be a good ally, how climate activism is yet to get its act together around fat, what it means to be queer, punks who hate “normals”, the role of dance in exploring your body as a fat person and Charlotte’s encounter with a fat femme tomato lady doing a high-kick. If you haven't already, be sure to join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/301006967271836/ (Facebook community) to connect with other like-minded queer folks and allies. Find out more about Gem Kennedy and Queers & Co. Podcast Artwork by https://www.gemmadsouza.co.uk/ (Gemma D'Souza) Resources In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: Dr. Charlotte Cooper’s website http://www.hammeronpress.net/shop/paperback/fat-activism-a-radical-social-movement/ (Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement) by Dr. Charlotte Cooper http://charlottecooper.net/fat/fat-writing/ (Fat Activist Vernacular) by Dr. Charlotte Cooper. Also available https://www.thisisunbound.co.uk/products/fat-activist-vernacular (here) (some of the proceeds go towards supporting live art in the UK) or other main ebook retailers Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size. Available https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/fat-and-proud-politics-of-size/charlotte-cooper/paperback/9780704344730.html (here) The ebook launch of the Fat Activist Vernacular on 29th January 2020 at the Live Art Development Agency. https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/events/fat-activist-vernacular-ebook-launch/ (Get your free ticket here) https://nolose.org/ (No Lose) Dr. Charlotte Cooper’s Twitter account Alice Coltrane’s Journey in Satchidananda is available https://open.spotify.com/album/6zV55F6W8kh1qe8LHhqRbz (here) Fat Cabaret's https://www.facebook.com/fatcabaret/ (Facebook page) Photo of Charlotte on a motorcycle by Substantia Jones. Check out the https://theadipositivityproject.zenfolio.com/about.html (Adipositivity Project) Full Transcription Full Transcriptions of every episode are available here. Gem: Welcome to the Queers & Co. Podcast. I'm your host, Gem Kennedy, and I'm very excited to be recording the first ever episode. My guest today is someone whose work I've followed and loved since first hearing about her in 2016. She's a psychotherapist and cultural worker based in East London, as well as the author of books like Fat Activism and the Fat Activist Vernacular, which we're going to talk about today. I'm very excited to welcome Dr. Charlotte Cooper. Hi Charlotte. Charlotte: Hi Gem. What a pleasure is to be here. Gem: It's so nice to have you. Thanks for agreeing to do it. Charlotte: My absolute pleasure. Gem: So, I've got lists of questions. I don't want to bombard you, but it would be really cool if we can start off with hearing a bit more about your work and then we'll chat about the Fat Activist Vernacular that's coming out soon. Charlotte: Yeah, sure. How to describe my work? I have fingers in a few pies. My main work is as a psychotherapist and I specialise in working with people who are on the edges in some way. I work with lots of queers and trans people, neurodivergent people, sex workers and also the occasional Normal comes along and I don't turn them away. I guess that's my day job, but it is a vocation as well. It's really important to me and I really love the work. I've also been making stuff for a long time so I call myself a cultural worker cause I think of making stuff as a political act. I started off making performances when I was in my teens and twenties and I have been making zines for a long time as well, probably for about 30 years cause I'm getting on a bit now. Charlotte: Lately, I've been returning more to performance and I'm sort of exploring, making different kinds of things as well. A lot of my work is about fat and...

Can you imagine a world in which animals of all kinds, including humans, live together as equals? For the final weekend of Manchester International Festival, a team of artists worked together with local children to create a zone of interspecies equality in Whitworth Park. Led by the child ambassadors, this podcast explores how we can live better alongside other animals and asks - what can we learn from them? This is a podcast for ALL animals. Featuring lead artist Sibylle Peters of Hamburg’s Theatre of Research and curator Lois Keidan from the Live Art Development Agency, plus contributions from artists Angela Bartram and Katharina Duve. This podcast could not have been made without the children and animals of Manchester - a big thank you to Jonas, Amar, Abdullah, Kitty, Willem, Tabrez, Awais, Mustafa, Grace, Emmett, Martha and Dexter, Dolly, George and Diane, Archie and Sami, Carly and Tricia, Petal the cow and Cheeseburger the budgie. Music by Martin Rach and Vicky Clarke. Hosted by Isaiah Hull. Produced by Katie Callin. A Reduced Listening and Manchester International Festival production.

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

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 participatory project by the Serbian artist Tanja Ostojić that included academic and artistic research, five creative workshops, a number of public events, one group performance, and two exhibitions involving a network of women from around the world all named Tanja Ostojić. Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić is published by Live Art Development Agency and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, 2018 More info and buy the book here: www.thisisliveart.co.uk/publishing/lexicon-of-tanjas-ostoji Tanja Ostojić is an extraordinary and influential Berlin-based, Serbian artist who, since 1994, has created research-led, performative projects that engage with issues of gender politics and feminism, of migration and displacement, and of labour. Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić brings these strands of her practice together in a multi-disciplinary, process-based, transnational project from a network of women around the world all named Tanja Ostojić

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.

Episode one of the Live Art UK podcast is about festivals: Live Art festivals, Live Art within festivals, and how artist-led initiatives are reshaping festival economics. In it, we talk to Andy Field, Co-Director of Forest Fringe, on ten years as a radical alternative to the Edinburgh milieu; Brian Lobel, founder of The Sick Of The Fringe, on making creative links within a broader programme; Lois Keidan, Co-Director of the Live Art Development Agency, on how performance festivals have grown and multiplied over 30+ years; Clive Lyttle, Director of Certain Blacks, on festivals’ ability to showcase underrepresented artists and artforms; Aaron Wright, Artistic Director of Fierce, on the potential of Live Art to bridge the underground and mainstream; and Rosana Cade, Co-Director of Buzzcut, on their evolving relationship with the artistic community in Glasgow. Image: In Between Time 13 (Oliver Rudkin)

During the NRLA 2009, Lois Keidan of the Live Art Development Agency spoke with 8 female artists about their individual practices: Eva Meyer Keller, Aine Phillips, Rosie Dennis, Andree Weschler, Kate McIntosh, Sandra Johnston, Anti-cool, and Donna Rutherford. All of the questions are the same, but the answers are very different. Listening to these podcasts will give you a unmistakably accurate impression of the atmosphere inside the Arches during the 2009 National Review of Live Art. Enjoy! Produced by New Moves International.