Audio documentation of an evening considering durational performance art with Marilyn Arsem, on Friday 18 April, 2025.

Across a 100-day period in 2015-16, Marilyn created one hundred different six-hour performances which took place daily in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Each of these durational works represented a different inquiry on the nature of time.

For this special event, Marilyn will present an artist talk reflecting on this body of work and sharing her research on performance art and time. Following the talk, there will be a Q&A chaired by curator Joseph Morgan Schofield.

This event is curated by Future Ritual as an extension of their festival CEREMONY, taking place in London between 23rd and 27th April, for which Marilyn Arsem is making a new performance.

CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. Further support towards the project has been given by the Mayor of London.

Audio documentation of a participatory conversation by performingborders in response to La Pocha Nostra’s commitment to use performativity as a methodology of resistance and to erase the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, and artist and spectator.

performingborders has been exploring performance and Live Art practices across notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders since 2016, inspired by La Pocha Nostra’s work. Drawing from Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s publication Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back (2000), they delve into LADA Study Room’s resources around borders and performances, including the Performing Borders Study Room Guide. They also draw from their own archive to highlight artists whose practices challenge the diversity of experiences at the intersections of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical, economic, and everyday borders.

Audio documentation of a lecture by Malik Nashad Sharpe on the subject 'Horror for the Live context'

Artworks referenced and shared by Malik:

1. 'Shoot', Chris Burden, 1971.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZIWs3Dl1k

2. 'Carcasse', Piotr Pavlensky, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKpB0eAKtg

3. 'Rhythm 0', Marina Abramovic, 1974

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5177

4. 'American Psycho', directed by Mary Harron, 2000

5. 'Nope', Directed by Jordan Peele, 2022

6. '10 Cloverfield Lane', directed by Dan Trachtenberg, 2016

7. 'Saw', directed by James Wan, 2004

8. 'Le Manoir de Diable', directed by Goerge Meillies, 1890

9. 'All of us are Dead', directed by Lee Jae-kyoo; Kim Nam-su, 2022

10. 'Untitled Nostalgia 3', Tiraan Willemse, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidYGnnYZRQ

11. 'Presage', Elie Autins, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_lWSh_Zr4

12. 'Goner', Malik Nashad Sharpe, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DbxNw-QiSI

Malik Nashad Sharpe – otherwise known as Marikiscrycrycry – has been investigating the emergence of horror in contemporary live performance as well as the use of it in his own practice. During his Study Room residency at LADA he approached horror as a research tool to tease out an alternative tradition of choreographic practice that contains social resonance and fantastical outcomes, and constitutes a suggestive and speculative lens through which performance can be contextualised.

Culminating his residency, this talk will highlight some of the utility of making horror as a performance practice, and explore the genre’s potential as a framework for seeing, reading and working with contemporary live performance.

Audio Documentation from Alternative Realities: A Discussion about Live Art & Gaming with Symoné. This event was part of a Study Room Session on Live Art and Gaming. Find out more on our website

Symone, the interdisciplinary performance artist, circus performer, video game designer, and proud member of the Pecs Drag King Collective is currently involved in the development of three mixed-reality experiences that combine theatre, live gaming, circus arts, and immersive digital elements: the audio installation/glitchy sensorial mixed-reality experience A Dream Within A Dream, the video game Highway to Infinity, and the theatre production Nullspace Motel in collaboration with Sammy Metcalfe (Sleepwalk Collective).

During this event, Symoné shared her process of creating Dream Within A Dream and opened up to a group discussion about how Live Art, technology and gaming intersect with queerness and alternative narratives.

A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.

A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.

A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.

A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.

A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.

A collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance - Jon Adams, FK Alexander, James Leadbitter (the vacuum cleaner), Oozing Gloop, Luke Ferris, Jess Thom (Touretteshero), Paul Wady, Annette Foster, Simon Raven, Ellie Stamp, Vijay Patel, Nwando Ebizie, and Lucy Hutson.