Residencies

Since April 2022, LALA is running a small artist residencies program. The space has a bedroom, a fully equipped kitchen, wi-fi, hot water, a first aid kit and overall the house is adapted to the needs of hosting guests. If you would like to become a resident of LALA, please send a message here.

Frieda Ford

(June – July 2026)

Frieda Ford is an Edinburgh based multidisciplinary artist with a socially engaged practice. Her practice revolves around folkloric symbols, oral traditions and collaborative strategies. Through facilitation of non-hierarchical arts workshops with an emphasis on collaboratively built knowledges she explores narratives brought to life through collective experience (collective dreaming). Her work removes hierarchy and singularity from knowledge, treating it as a constellation: continuously melting, shifting, expanding.

Samantha Sea Sea

(April-May 2026)

Samantha Sea Sea is a New York based, Brooklyn native performance artist who works with video, sound, movement, poetry and the human voice. Their work explores multiple themes such as inter generational hopes/traumas/joy, Afro Futurism, magical realism, mental health, Black spiritual traditions, and connection to water.

Yunuen Rhi

(February 2026)

Yunuen Rhi are a two-spirit performance artist, anthropologist, martial arts instructor and healer with roots in Mexico, the United States, and Korea. Their performance interest lie in ritual and social practice as a way to create effective bridges between performance and community needs in a decolonial setting. In LALA they staged a series of closed workshops with local artists and activists.

jaz papadopoulos

(November 2025)

jaz papadopoulos (they/them) is a queer diasporic interdisciplinary writer/artist/educator/party planner. A self-described emotionalist and avid Anne Carson fan, jaz likes talking about media, horticulture, lyricism, nervous systems, anti-Imperialism and erotics. They visited LALA to research and write their second book, a work of apocalyptic speculative nonfiction where a dominatrix escapes a pro-natalist reproductive institution and contends with her breeding fetish (…or something). jaz lives in Canada, on syilx land.

Itziar Barrio & Sarah Anderson

(June 2025)

Itziar Barrio is an interdisciplinary artist producing long-term research-based projects that involve different agents and collaborators. By rewriting the dominant narratives through which our societies, identities, and realities are constructed, her work opens up new futures. Sarah Anderson’s practice engages a broad interdisciplinary investigation integrating various media and research areas while remaining focused on sculpture as a specific field of inquiry. They presented part of their work and research at LALA.

Hadrien Daigneault-Roy

(February 2025)

Hadrien Daigneault-Roy is a queer interdisciplinary artist working between Berlin and Montreal. Their practice explores cyborg bodies, intermedia spectacle, and corporeal storytelling. During their residency at LALA, they developed Illustrated Atlas of Crying, a performance that reimagines mourning through the figure of the professional mourner in specter-drag. Imagined between sterile funeral homes and dusty churches, the piece conjures a “third space” for a protean funeral ritual.

James Moore

(September 2024)

James Moore is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Tarndanya (so-called Adelaide) on the stolen lands of Kaurna Country (so-called Australia) and a Masters graduate of Fine Art at RMIT University. During their residency in Lala, they worked on a project titled “Κατοχικό Σύνδρομο” (Occupation Syndrome), where they interviewed and photographed ten queer and gender-diverse individuals residing in Athens.

Veronique Tromokratisch

(Official resident and megapatroness)

The space houses an archive, but also often hosts the outsider avant-drag artist Veronique Tromokratisch herself, who lived in the house for four years before moving out of Athens. Veronique Tromokratisch was born in a small town of exiled artists in 1983 (indigo kid). She likes poetic deconstruction and internal revolutions, pop art and shenanigans, she is a self-destructive poor girl, fashion terrorist, ex-human, painter, poet, priestess and whore + gemini.

Anastasia Kavada

(April-May 2024)

Anastasia Kavada is Reader in Media and Politics at the University of Westminster where she leads the MA in Media, Campaigning and Social Change. This installation is her first artist project.

Nela Fortunato

(February 2024)

LALA had the pleasure of welcoming a new resident from Buenos Aires, director Nela Fortunato, whose 2-week performance workshop culminated in a final public performance.

Eva H.D.

(October 2023)

As part of her residency, Eva H.D. presented “Jackals & Fireflies”, a 20-minute city suite, a poetic cinematic essay, directed by Charlie Kaufman and written and performed by Eva herself. Eva H.D. wrote Rotten Perfect Mouth, The Natural Hustle, and Light Wounds. Her poem “Bonedog” was featured in the 2020 Netflix film I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

Sophia Efsthathiou

(June 2023)

Sophia Efstathiou works in philosophy of science, ethics of technology and art-based approaches to philosophy and responsible research and innovation (RRI). She has worked as an “embedded philosopher” in different interdisciplinary science projects, including in complexity science, systems biology, and biotechnology. She is interested in stimulating and exercising response-ability in science, through humanities and arts resources.

Sofia Moreno

(September/October 2022)

Sofia Moreno (Coahuila, Mexico 1981) is a multidisipliary artist based in CDMX. Her work focuses on the alchemical change of her body, extolling and supporting trans culture through her experience and worldview, emphasising the violence trans femme bodies face in Latin America.

Aimee Le & Marc Sutton (AiMARK)

(July 2022)

AiMARK is a nonbinary poetry system based in the US and the UK. Its work seeks to push the boundaries of human and artificial memory, highlight new translations and evolve queer forms of reproduction.

Aimée Lê is a Vietnamese-American artist; Her work focuses on untranslatability, conceptual excess, authorial control and the ‘anecdotal’ through the lens of internationalism.

Alvina Chamberland

(May 2022, March/April 2023, October-December 2024)

Alex Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-US American writer and performance artist based in Berlin. She has an MA in gender studies from Södertörns Högskola, with a thesis on trans feminine sisterhood and intersectionality in New York City.