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

Something Other Live is a series of experimental writing and performance events which act as companions to each themed Chapter published by Something Other collective.

Something Other’s upcoming event follows a call out on circularity, searching for queer ways of occupying the present and its differences. This will unfold as a collective listening event online.

Please join us here on Tuesday 5th May 8pm as we gather to listen to sounds from: Alexandra Baybutt, Barbara Bridger and Hari Marini, Karen Christopher, Sabrina Fuller, Laurel Jay Carpenter, Eirini Kartsaki, Ben Kulvichit and Nat Norland, Marianne Habeshaw, Christina Lovey, Libby Scarlette & Caridad Svich.

In SPIRALS, CIRCLES, GALAXIES, Barbara Bridger, Georgia Kalogeropoulou, Hari Marini and Noelia Diaz Vicedo (collaborating as PartSuspended) reflect on six stills from Spirals, a video-poem collaboration filmed in leftover spaces in London, Broadstairs, Barcelona, Belgrade, Coventry and Athens.

PartSuspended is a multidisciplinary dynamic platform co-founded by Hari Marini in 2006. PartSuspended fosters performances and collaborations between artists from a variety of disciplines such as performance, photography, poetry, video and music. Since 2013 PartSuspended has been engaged in the Spirals project: an ongoing collaborative and multidisciplinary project of international artists, that brings together poetry, performance and music in various cities, to create video poems and live performances.

Barbara Bridger taught Theatre and Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts between 1990 and 2010 and is currently an independent writer, director and dramaturg.

Hari Marini is a London-based performance maker, independent writer and founding member of PartSuspended group. Her writing, practice and research are focused on poetics of spaces, performative architectures and women’s writing.

Georgia Kalogeropoulou is a London based researcher, musician and performer. Her academic interests are centered around Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of time.

Noelia Diaz Vicedo is a poet, academic and translator. She combines university teaching with research on contemporary women’s poetry and gender studies.

New Words is a selection of WhatsApp messages sent between Libby and a person she loved in another country between 2014 and 2019, read backwards.

Libby Scarlett is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. Her practice is interested in the transformative nature of interaction and lived experience. Flaws in communication and encounters are highlighted as sites for potential adjustment or movement. From these, she creates sets of circumstances or boundaries to explore notions of change and growth. She is also part of artist-architect duo Studio Tej.

Midnight Mass is a looping phone conversation for one voice, in which identity looses its footing in an unstable environment.

Ben Kulvichit is a theatre and performance maker. He is co-artistic director of Emergency Chorus and an associate artist of Chris Goode and Company. As a critic and writer, he is co-editor of Exeunt Magazine and recently worked as a contributor and deputy editor for Diverse Actions and LADA’s publication Vanishing Points.

Nat Norland is a sound designer, writer and director. He makes theatre with his company Why This Sky. He has designed sound and music for work by Emergency Chorus and Joseph Morgan Schofield, and is currently studying for an MA in Performance Design and Practice at Central St. Martins.

A visual art performer examines her experience as witness to a durational action; it all comes full circle at John Court’s work, presented by OUI Performance.

Laurel Jay Carpenter’s durational performances have been presented across the USA, UK, Scandinavia, Western and Eastern Europe, most notably as part of the 2007 Venice Biennale, the 2013 Festspillene i Bergen (Norway) and the 2019 Prague Quadrennial. She regularly collaborates with Norwegian artist Terese Longva as Longva+Carpenter, and was, earlier in her career, an active member of the Independent Performance Group founded by Marina Abramović. For more than a decade, Carpenter served as a tenured Associate Professor of Art at Alfred University in New York before refocusing her practice toward doctoral research at Northumbria University. She is currently self-isolating in Newcastle.

Refusing Tea is a delicate poem that circles in silences, selves and intimacy.

Marianne Habeshaw is a Teaching Assistant and Poet/Playwright based in Hackney, London. She wrote a play with the Eastern Angles Young Writers Group called The Snowflakes in The Slow Cooker, which was performed in June 2019.

My Fecund Father is a meditation on the familiar and the unfamiliar, and how we grow.

Eirini Kartsaki is a performance practitioner, writer and Lecturer in Drama at East 15 Acting School, University of Essex. Her writing is concerned with notions of desire, repetition and the unfulfilled. She is the author of Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces (Palgrave, 2017). Her performance practice has been presented nationally and internationally (Sadler’s Wells, V&A, The Basement, Whitechapel Gallery, Arnolfini, Soho Theatre, Palais de Tokyo, RichMix, Toynbee Studions, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon).

On Circularity is a poem written in isolation.

Mary Paterson is a writer and artist, and one of the co-founders of Something Other.