On Saturday 1 June 2019, with the Drama Department at Queen Mary University of London, LADA presented a day of discussions around kickstarting and maintaining a Live Art practice, and an opportunity to find out more about the exciting MA Live Art programme that began in September 2018 in a new partnership between Queen Mary and LADA.
Brian Catling was the keynote speaker, presenting a lecture: 'FICTIONAL EVIDENCE: The art of performing imagined crimes'.
Prior to this, Daniel Oliver (QMUL) hosted a series of conversation between practitioners and producers on kickstarting and sustaining a Live Art Practice in 2019 and onwards:
Artists Lois Weaver and Martin O'Brien on sustaining a practice
Artists Franko B and Nando Messias on documenting, critical writing, and archiving
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Producers Phoebe Patey-Ferguson and Jen Smethurst on networking and connecting
Artists/curators/arts-workers Joseph Morgan Schofield and Jordan McKenzie on the artist as… (artist as curator, artist as researcher, artist as activist, artist as curator, artist as day-jobber)
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Following these conversations, Lois Keidan (LADA) and Dominic Johnson (QMUL) spoke about the MA.
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