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The Live Art Development Agency (LADA)
Formation1999; 27 years ago (1999)
Purposepromoting Live Art, supporting artists
Location(s)
  • The Garrett Centre
    117A Mansford Street
    London
Key people
Lois Keidan, Director and co-founder
Websitewww.thisisliveart.co.uk Edit this at Wikidata

Live Art Development Agency, known by its acronym LADA, is an arts organisation and registered charity based in East London which supports Live Art practices and advocates for Live Art as a politicised approach to art-making.[1] In 2015, LADA became a National Portfolio Organisation.[2]

History

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LADA was founded in 1999 by Lois Keidan and Catherine Ugwu.[3] Keidan and Ugwu were previously running the Live Art programme of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and supported Live Art activity in London at the time.[4] In the following decades, LADA produced programmes and seminal publications, and provided support to artists.[5]

In 2020, Lois Keidan accelerated her plan to step aside as Director amid calls for racial justice and equity in the sector[6] and in 2021 artists Barak adé Soleil and Chinasa Vivian Ezugha were appointed as co-directors following an international recruitment process.[7] In 2023, a period of organisational instability led to LADA's suspension from Arts Council England's National Portfolio.[8] A new Board of Trustees was appointed, along with interim director Ria Righteous.[6] In 2024, Mary Osborn was appointed as LADA's new director.[9]

Activities

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LADA has been producing events, opportunities, resources and publications.

It hosts the Live Art Research Collection, the world’s largest collection of research materials on Live Art, with over 8,000 items ranging from theoretical texts to DVDs, videos, CDs and digital files of performance documents and documentation. It was described by The Independent as one of the UK's 50 best museums and galleries.[10]

LADA is responsible for funding and co-ordinating Live Art UK, a national network of organisations and venues that support and develop Live Art infrastructures.[11]

Selected Projects

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  • Live Culture (2003), event at Tate Modern which included performances from Franko B, Forced Entertainment, La Pocha Nostra and a lecture by Marina Abramović.[12]
  • Restock, Rethink, Reflect (2006-2021), a series of initiatives for and about artists whose work engages with issues of identity politics and cultural diversity.[13]
  • Performing Rights (2006-2014), a programme of events relating to the intersections of performance and human rights.
  • Performance Matters (2009-2012), AHRC-funded research project considering the cultural value of Live Art.[14]
  • Access All Areas (2011), a two-day public programme reflecting the ways in which artists who work with Live Art have engaged with, represented, and problematised issues of disability.[15][16]
  • Diverse Actions Leadership Bursaries (2017-2019), an initiative supporting a new generation of leaders from culturally diverse backgrounds.
  • The Katherine Araniello Bursary Awards (2020), for early career artists who work in Live Art and identify as disabled, established to honour the legacy of Katherine Araniello.[17]

Publications

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

  • Exposures (2002), edited by Manuel Vason, Lois Keidan, and Ron Athey, published by Black Dog Publishing in association with LADA.[18]
  • Perform Repeat Record (2012), edited by Adrian Heathfield and Amelia Jones, co-published with Intellect.[19]
  • Throwing the Body into the Fight: A Portrait of Raimund Hoghe (2013), edited by Mary Kate Connolly, co-published with Intellect.[20]
  • Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh (2015), edited by Adrian Heathfield, co-published with MIT Press.[21]
  • Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey (2015), edited by Dominic Johnson, co-published with Intellect.[22]
  • It's All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells (2016), edited by Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson, co-published with Intellect.[23]
  • The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver (2016), edited by Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie, co-published with Intellect.[24]
  • Kira O'Reilly: Untitled (Bodies) (2018), edited by Harriet Curtis and Martin Hargreaves, co-published with Intellect.[25]
  • Anne Bean: Self Etc (2019) edited by Rob La Frenais.[26]
  • Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation (2020), edited by Roberta Mock and Mary Paterson, co-published with Intellect.[27]
  • The Live Art Almanacs, Volumes 1-6, international collections of ‘found writing’ about and around Live Art.[28][29]

Patrons

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LADA has a board of Patrons composed of established artists who have contributed significantly to the development of Live Art.[30] They are: Marina Abramović, Ron Athey, Neil Bartlett, Anne Bean, Sonia Boyce, Tim Etchells, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Tehching Hsieh, Isaac Julien, La Ribot, Lois Weaver.

LADA's initial list of patrons included the artist Raimund Hoghe, who died in 2021.

Key reading

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  • Live Art Development Agency and Live Art UK, eds. 2010. In Time: A Collection of Live Art Case Studies. London: Live Art Development Agency.[31]
  • Schmidt, Theron, ed. 2019. AGENCY: A Partial History of Live Art. Bristol: Intellect Books.[13]
  • Chatzichristodoulou, Maria, ed. 2020. Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity. London: Methuen Drama.[4]

References

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  1. ↑ "What is Live Art?". thisisliveart.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "National Portfolio Organisations | Arts Council England". www.artscouncil.org.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Keidan, Lois; Brine, Daniel (2005). "Live Art in London". PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. 27 (3): 74–82. doi:10.1162/pajj.2005.27.3.74.
  4. 1 2 Chatzichristodoulou, Maria (2020). "Introduction". Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 4–5. ISBN 9781474257725.
  5. ↑ Chatzichristodoulou, Maria (2020). "Introduction". Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 9781474257725.
  6. 1 2 Greer, Stephen; Patey-Ferguson, Phoebe. "Live Art: radicalism and complicity in a scene of constraint". Contemporary Theatre Review. 34 (3): 8 – via Taylor and Francis.
  7. ↑ "LADA Announces New Leadership". thisisliveart.co.uk. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ↑ Neil, Puffett (11 May 2023). "Staff hit out at trustees over 'closure plans' for LADA". Arts Professional.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ↑ "Announcing Mary Osborn as New Director of LADA". thisisliveart.co.uk. 17 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ "The 50 best museums & galleries". The Independent. 23 October 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  11. ↑ "Live Art UK". Live Art UK.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ↑ "Marina Abramovic: Live Culture Talk". Tate. 29 March 2003. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  13. 1 2 Theron, Schmidt (12 April 2019). Agency: A Partial History of Live Art. Intellect with Live Art Development Agency. ISBN 9781783209903.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  14. ↑ Butt, Gavin; Keidan, Lois; Heathfield, Adrian. "Performance Matters: Gavin Butt, Lois Keidan and Adrian Heathfield in Conversation". Contemporary Theatre Review. 24 (1) – via Taylor & Francis.
  15. ↑ Gardner, Lyn (7 March 2011). "Access All Areas: putting disability centre stage". The Guardian.
  16. ↑ Araniello, Katherine (29 May 2012). "Disability arts: why difference is what makes cutting-edge art". The Guardian.
  17. ↑ "Katherine Araniello Bursary Awards: recipients announced". disabilityarts.online. 15 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ↑ Vason, Manuel; Keidan, Lois; Athey, Ron (2002). Exposures. Black Dog Publishing in association with LADA. ISBN 1-901033-87-2.
  19. ↑ Jones, Amelia; Heathfield, Adrian (2012). Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History. Live Art Development Agency & Intellect. ISBN 1841504890.
  20. ↑ Connolly, Mary Kate (2013). Throwing the Body Into The Fight – A portrait of Raimund Hoghe. Live Art Development Agency & Intellect. ISBN 978-1783200344.
  21. ↑ Heathfield, Adrian; Hsieh, Tehching (2015). Out of Now, The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh. Live Art Development Agency and MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262012553.
  22. ↑ Johnson, Dominic. "Pleading in the Blood". Intellect Books. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  23. ↑ Deirdre Heddon, Dominic Johnson. "It's All Allowed". Intellect Books. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  24. ↑ Lois Weaver, Jen Harvie. "The Only Way Home is Through the Show". Intellect Books. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  25. ↑ Harriet Curtis, Martin Hargreaves. "Kira O'Reilly". Intellect Books. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  26. ↑ Frenais, Rob La. "Anne Bean". Intellect Books. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  27. ↑ Roberta Mock, Mary Paterson. "Joshua Sofaer". Intellect Books. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  28. ↑ "The Live Art Almanac". LADA Live Art Development Agency. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  29. ↑ Gardner, Lyn (29 September 2008). "The Live Art Almanac: a radical look at how theatre should work". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  30. ↑ "The Live Art Development Agency's Patrons". thisisliveart.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  31. ↑ Live Art Development Agency in collaboration with Live Art UK (Eds.) (2010). In Time: A Collection of Live Art Case Studies (PDF). Live Art Development Agency in collaboration with Live Art UK. ISBN 978-0956134202.
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