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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”.

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.

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

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.

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).

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.