Abstract

A documentation workbook zine about the LADA London DIY Workshop on fat performance led by Dr. Gillie Kleiman, online, in late 2020. This publication, put together by some of the participants of the workshop, contains a list of resources that participants put forward to share with others, along with a version of some of the tasks and activities we undertook in our time together, and some other materials that might convey something of the experience. This isn’t the same as having done the workshop, but we hope it will be an interesting and useful resource.

This workbook is partly a documentation of what we got up to throughout the six weeks of our meetings and partly a do-it-yourself list of tasks that you can engage with. Each week holds a suggestion of a resource to engage with and a suggestion of a task to do. You are encouraged to see the tasks just as suggestions that you can build upon in relation to how you want to work. You may want to mix and match some of the tasks or questions with different resources and material from our extensive resource list. You may want to grab a friend or two and work on one together. You may want to turn a writing task into a movement task. These are just starting points based on what we got up to during the Fat Performance DIY. You can take them wherever you would like to go.