Desk Scheme – Call For Proposals

Biographies

Leyneuf Tines

Leyneuf Tines is an independent researcher and performer based in London. Leyneuf develops ongoing experimental and collaborative research practice on the body in performance across post/colonial time-spaces, cultural formations and ontologies. By activating the kinaesthetic imagination, she explores the politics of uprootment, ancestral histories and determined spirits to formulate paraontological manifestations. In a devout sensibility to reinstigate corporeal performances of the uprooted and colonised body to understand new forms of fugitivity from ontology, the work intersects at the crossroads of political reality, decolonial imaginations, expressive cultures and ritual processes by collecting superstitions and rituals in order to re-write the ‘body’. Leyneuf continues to write experiments in turning her PhD research project on Vodou and Haiti into a book format. These reverberations of decolonial devotion are explored in performative writing and sonic mapping in the diaspora to contribute to debates on sensory experience within cultural knowledge, the politics of commemoration and shifts in temporality towards the manuscript of Mysticism in the Flesh.

Carrie Foulkes

Carrie Foulkes is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and bodyworker. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Glasgow where her practice-led research looks at the narration of chronic illness, disability and end of life issues in literature, visual and Live Art. At LADA she will write essays on artists who have used physical limitations and health challenges as material for their work in performance. Her writing will also be informed by interviews with contemporary artists and bodyworkers.

Benjamin Ord

Benjamin Ord is an artist and choreographer born in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand and based in London, U.K. His practice, based primarily in performance and moving image, explores how the body pushes against the fixed surface of a finite image, object or linear time. His work points to an expanded notion of liveness that refuses the tyranny of the present moment in order to gesture towards the transformational potential of the future. He has shown work at venues including the A.P.T. Gallery, Spike Island, DAAD Gallery, Laurie Grove Theatre, and The Place. As a dancer for over a decade, he worked with companies such as Studio Wayne McGregor and the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and he has performed in the work of Sriwhana Spong, Tino Sehgal, Pablo Bronstein, Olafur Eliasson, and Mark Wallinger among others. Benjamin holds an MA in Artists’ Film and Moving Image from Goldsmiths, University of London and an MA in Creative Practice from Trinity Laban.

Emily Russell

Emily Russell is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. She recently began a year-long residency with the Artist Residency in Motherhood programme. She intends to use the LADA Desk Scheme to research the conceptual underpinnings of this residency. In particular, she is seeking to explore how art, in the context of motherhood, can be integrated into the everyday through performative actions. In turn, she is also considering how art-making can be made accessible to those who, by reasons of care-giving, illness, or financial constraints, have less ability to engage with art-making by traditional means. Emily holds a BA in Fine Art from Art Academy London and a BA in Theology from the University of Oxford.