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LADA Screens: Restock. Rethink. Reflect Four on Privilege at the Live Art Development Agency

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Time 19:00
Date 30/10/18
Price Free

Celebrate the launch of October’s LADA Screens & mark the end of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four on Live Art and Privilege with contributions from artists Rita Marcalo, Kelly Green, Scottee and more.

October’s LADA Screens is the film of Rita Marcalo’s One Last Dance – An Chéad Damhsa, a perambulating dance taking place between Guildford (the place Rita lived in when she arrived in the UK as an Erasmus student in 1994) and Cloughjordan (the rural Irish village that she is moving to post-Brexit). Rita started the dance on 3 September, performing it at LADA on 14 September and ending it in Ireland on 26 October. She returns to LADA on the 30 October to show the film of the London performance and discuss the work in the context of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four (RRR4).

Restock, Rethink, Reflect is an ongoing series mapping underrepresented artists, practices and histories. Through a programme of residencies, commissions, resources and publications, RRR4 on Privilege (2016-18) has looked at ways in which Live Art enables different forms of understanding, knowledge, agency, and inclusion in relation to issues of youth, old age, displacement and class.

Kelly Green will present two new resources on Live Art and class developed through an RRR4 Study Room research residency and collaboration with Canterbury Christ Church University - Let’s Get Classy, a Study Room Guide and Ways of Getting Classy, a Toolkit of Methodologies.

Scottee will present I Made It, a swanky archive book documenting his ten years of making art and making trouble, and The Outsiders’ Handbook, a free zine and survival guide for queer and trans young people written by Scottee, Travis Alabanza, Selina Thompson and Emma Frankland. Both publications were created as part of an RRR4 commission for Scottee: I Made It, a project marking Scottee’s decade as an artist.

Barby Asante will discuss Declaration of Independence, a project bringing together women of colour to perform collective recitations addressing issues of independence, justice, and the role of the artist in a climate of heightened racism and violence.

Fox Irving, an artist taking part on LADA’s subsidised desk scheme, will launch her Working-Class Working Group and plans for a body of work exploring engagement and collaborations with working-class communities.

The discussions will be facilitated by LADA’s partner on RRR4 Amit Rai and Lois Keidan.

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