LADA Screens: Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson

We are delighted to present The `Gift as the final of four screenings centred around the themes of voice, care and healing.

Lateisha's gentle yet fierce film explores the heart-felt intimacies and questions found within healing, belonging and personal growth. Following The Gift, Lateisha will screen the film plant portals: breath (2020) by Nicky Chue aka seedling library, which connects bumblebees, colonial trauma, alternate universes, and the concept of ‘rest’ in a meditation on the unspoken history many queer and trans people of colour carry, attempting to ask: Can nature heal us?

Lateisha will be joined by collaborators Kes Gill-Martin and Ava Riby-Williams for a discussion and interactive sonic/music offerings.

The Gift (2022) is a single-take style film, weaving together performance for camera, original sound composition and poetic storytelling that fuses speculative fiction and autobiography. We are invited into the artist’s home, to witness them playfully uncover (and reclaim) stories of grief, body, love, nature and home-making.

Processing the loss of their/her grandfather in 2021, this project became for Lateisha a container of care – a space-holding for their lived experiences of gender, race, class, survivorship, neurodivergence and illness/disability. The Gift invokes the wisdom of Blackness, queerness, ecology, as well as transfeminist futurism ways of being in the world. To stare back into the lens and declare Freedom. To declare what shall be protected – the generative act of Being Truly Seen.
The film was made as part of Lateisha's participation in the exhibition An Ecology of Mind, seed-commissioned by Bethlem Gallery, that explored the relationships that connect art, ecology and health.

Following the screening, the film will be available to watch online until 25 May.

We kindly ask the attendees of the event to wear masks to protect those who are disproportionately affected by the ongoing pandemic. We have a limited supply of disposable masks available at LADA but only while stocks last.

The film is captioned.

LADA and The Garrett Centre are wheelchair accessible by lift and provide gender inclusive bathrooms.

Should you have any particular requirements please email [email protected] and we will be happy to offer further support.

LADA Screens is a series of free, online screenings of seminal performance documentation, works to camera, short films/video and archival footage. It is part of Live Online, LADA’s dedicated space where you can watch short videos and films drawn from LADA’s Study Room or generated through our programmes and initiatives.

Each screening will be available to view for a limited time only, and will be launched with a live event at our space in Bethnal Green, London.

LADA Screens is curated by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). LADA is a ‘Centre for Live Art’: a knowledge centre, a production centre for programmes and publications, a research centre setting artists and ideas in motion, and an online centre for digital experimentation, representation and dissemination.

Event Venue

Live Art Development Agency - LADA, The Garrett Centre, London, United Kingdom