Live Art Development Agency

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The Live Art Development Agency (LADA)
Formation1999;25 years ago (1999)
Purposepromoting Live Art, supporting artists
Location
  • The Garrett Centre
    117A Mansford Street
    London
Key people
Lois Keidan, Director and co-founder
Website www.thisisliveart.co.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Live Art Development Agency, known by its acronym LADA, is an arts organisation and registered charity founded in London in 1999 by Lois Keidan and Catherine Ugwu. [1] LADA provides professional advice for artists as well as producing events and publications intended to enhance the understanding of and access to Live Art. They are an Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. [2] In 2021 Lois Keidan stood down as director, and Barak adé Soleil and Chinasa Vivian Ezugha were appointed as joint co-directors. [3] LADA has a board of patrons composed of 10 established artists who have contributed significantly to the development of Live Art. [4]

Contents

Activities

LADA is responsible for funding and co-ordinating Live Art UK, a network for bringing together organisations to support and develop Live Art infrastructures.

The LADA Study Room is an open access research facility for artists, students, curators, academics and other arts professionals. The Study Room houses a collection of more than 8,000 items ranging from theoretical texts to DVDs, videos, CDs and digital files of performance documents and documentation. [5] This resource was described by The Independent as one of the UK's 50 best museums and galleries. [6]

The Live Art Development Agency Study Room.jpg

Selected Projects and Initiatives.

LADA produces projects to help develop the visibility of, and opportunities for, artists making live work from diverse backgrounds. [8] [9]

Publications

LADA has published and co-published a number of titles relating to Live Art:

Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh, edited by Adrian Heathfield, with the MIT Press, [10] Perform Repeat Record edited by Adrian Heathfield and Amelia Jones with Intellect. [11] Intellect Live book series [12] a collaboration with Intellect Books on influential artists working at the edge of performance:

The Live Art Almanac is an edited collection of writing on Live Art, gathered and re-published as a volume on an occasional basis since 2008.

Patrons

Key reading

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