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itch. is an experimental live art gathering that stretches out of the confines of form &genre, and settles into shadows
☁️currently in hibernation☁️

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LADA @thisisliveart Do It Together 2026: Sym Stellium - Our Bodies Are Flooded With Entangled Histories

This DIT is run in partnership with Fierce Festival @fiercefestival x performance, possession + automation.

Sym Stellium @symstellium will host workshops across three days exploring site-specific, intuitive and ritual-based performance practice.

This DIT will feel through Birmingham’s entanglements with imperialism and colonialism – and how our individual dis/connection to spaces in the city can inform our artistic practices and attempts toward liberation and collectivity.

📆 Tues 28 - Thurs 30 July

Deadline to apply: Mon 23 Feb, 6pm

L!nk in bi0 🔗
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Do It Together (DIT) is a peer-to-peer professional development programme that enables artists to explore ideas, aesthetics and sociopolitical realities together.

Knowing that the development of a live art practice is as much about methodologies and experiences as training in skills and techniques, DIT invites artists to delve into collective enquiries and share their process.

DIT reimagines LADA’s flagship programme, DIY, which ran unique professional development projects BY artists FOR artists from 2002 to 2020. For 2026, LADA reactivates the programme as Do It Together (DIT) in line with our renewed focus on co-learning.

Image 1 by Ayesha Jones
Image 2 by Connor Pope taken in Birmingham, United Kingdom by @itch.gathering

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ITCH. THROWBACK

'Untitled LAMENT' (2024)

Conceptualised and performed by Pablo Pakula @pablopakula

"Like many of us, I have been deeply preoccupied with ideas of 'the end' and climate collapse for some time. This piece is an extract of what I think would be a longer work. It is a kind of future lament, a song for after the collapse, a kind of exorcism that might hopefully help to begin processing our climate anxiety and grief. The work deliberately doesn't seek to offer hope or solutions, but instead asks the audience to acknowledge and sit in our shared solastalgia (a word to describe a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change). Interested in funerial traditions of keening, this will be the first time that my work features a live song".

Feeling through this piece this week, as we watch current events unfold. More throwbacks to come with pieces by @lizrord
@smaiduskhan
@ellefierce_
As part of the public programming for 'dirty nails (les ongles noirs)' by @n.u.practice

Images by Fabio Calungz taken in Eastside Projects by @itch.gathering

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Our beloved itch. artists joining us on the soil tomorrow 💥👀

Samiir Saunders @smaiduskhan
Samiir will be showing a new piece 'consumption as a generative act'

Samiir Saunders is a multimedia poet from Birmingham. Samiir’s work blends spoken word, sound art, alternative hip-hop, and performance art. Samiir explores themes of intimacy, technology, glitches, healing, and memory.

Samiir has performed at venues across the UK and internationally, including Ikon Gallery, Jerwood Space, La Gaîté Lyrique, Tramlines Festival, and Supernormal Festival. Samiir’s poetry films have screened at OutFest Los Angeles, Arcadia Gallery, and Channel 4 Random Acts. Their film ‘oneminuteglitches’, which they originally published to Instagram, was featured in the online exhibition ‘A World Without End’ and was a finalist for Best Illustrated Poem at the ‘Wales International Film Festival 2021’.

Link in bio to book your free ticket 🍎 taken in Eastside Projects by @itch.gathering

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Our beloved itch. artists joining us on the soil tomorrow 💥 👀

ELLE FIERCE @ellellle

Showing her work 'GIRLS OF A FEATHER'
AN EXPLORATION OF FLUID, FLIGHT AND TRANSGRESSIVE TRANSFORMATION.

ELLE FIERCE (she/they) is a performance and visual artist based in Berlin & London.

Her work speaks to the complexities and nuances within the tropes of Transness, Queerness and Blackness.

FIERCE seeks to amplify these underrepresented voices within mainstream discourse and artistic spheres including elements of dance, speech, video work and DJ’ing, blurring the lines between performance experience and audience participation. Approaching performance from an intersectional perspective, FIERCE attempts to present alternate possibilities for connection and radical solidarity as an opportunity to explore the interconnectedness of our bodies.

FIERCE works have been presented at WUK Vienna, Southbank centre London, ADKDW Cologne, Tanz Pavilion Hannover, Molt Gallery Berlin among others and is currently artist in residence at Raze Collective London.

Link in bio to book your free ticket 🫀 taken in Eastside Projects by @itch.gathering

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Our beloved itch. artists joining us on the soil tomorrow 💥👀

Liz Ord @lizrord with Nafeesa Hamid
Showing their new piece 'Best Foot Forward'

Liz Ord is a performance and costume artist whose work focuses on the surreal. They spent their early career in fashion, methodically playing out make-believe scenarios on and off runways. The fantasies that feed consumption have bled into their current work, which explores the lines, between fabrication and reality; whimsy, fun and fear.
Liz's work has been featured with Fierce Festival, Shout Festival, The MAC, Warwick Arts Centre, and The VNA. Their clothing has been showcased in publications such as Twin Magazine and Re-Edition Magazine, and their designs have been worn on red carpets during London Fashion Week (LFW). Liz has also creatively collaborated with Gucci.

Nafeesa (b. Azad Kashmir 1993, bred in Brum) is a multi disciplinary poet and educator. They enjoy walking and petting animals

Link in bio to book your free ticket 🫂 taken in Eastside Projects by @itch.gathering

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itch. throwback: Alex Billingham @billingham_alex
Salting the Wound

A live art/ crip dance piece pulling from Alex’s lived experiences on othering and fluid and changeable bodies.

Alex Billingham works across live art, experimental theatre and film to explore how their trans, queer, crip identities collide and intermingle with various subjects.

Website: alexbillingham.co.uk

The next iteration of itch. will be at @eprjcts on 27th June 6:30 - 9pm
This forms a part of the public programme for 'dirty nails (les ongles noirs)' an experiment by melissandre varin @vmelissandre commissioned by Eastside Projects and co-commissioned by FABRIC @fabric.dance

👀💥✨️ taken in Moseley Road Swimming Baths by @itch.gathering

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itch. throwbacks: ITZATNA @itzatna.arts 'RIO BRAVO' (Wet / Ones)

a new live art ritual from ITZATNA - inspired by the racist history of Mexican migrants swimming across the Rio Grande to the USA and ancestral Yucatec Mayan bathing and healing traditions.

itch. will be back on 27th June at @eprjcts 🥳👀 by @itch.gathering

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itch. throwbacks: Niya B @niya___b 🪴

'Something about bodies, plants and machines
Something between low tech and high tech
Something lying on the ground and something coming in storms
Something burning and something cooling
A ritual of dance and stillness'

Niya B is a multi-disciplinary artist, working at the intersections of visual art and performance. She uses video, soundscapes, text, live acts and immersive installations and technologies to explore themes related to ecology, posthumanism, (trans)gender embodiments, class, mythology and the knowledge that is held in the land and the performing body.

📷 @ayesha_jones

(itch. will be back in June 2024 ... 👀) by @itch.gathering

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itch. throwback: melissandre varin @vmelissandre offered a new piece 'suturing a wound'

melissandre brings water from the swimming pool, 100 red roses, a rope, a jar of M.I.L.K, and a tarpaulin used in a previous performance, into an investigation of intergenerational healing mechanisms/trauma. Invitations: the frontline herbalism podcast episode 18 rose medicine by Solidarity Apothecary // My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem // I wish I knew how it would feel to be free by Nina Simone

Images by @ayesha_jones taken in Moseley Road Baths CIO by @itch.gathering

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Our very first itch. gathering was almost a whole month ago?!

So grateful for the community of performance artists and everyone that helped to make this a reality.

We'll be sharing images taken from the amazing @ayesha_jones to reminisce and dream of the next one! 🌹🧂🪴🩸👾

Were you at itch. gathering? We'd love to hear your feedback! Slide into the DM's to give your thoughts 🙏🏽 taken in Moseley Road Baths CIO by @itch.gathering

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