Publications

The Live Art Development Agency works to further critical discourses and develop resources about and around Live Art including the production and distribution of books and dvds. The Agency's publishing strategy involves partnering major publishers on key titles, whilst also publishing our own and other's limited edition and on-demand projects for distribution through Unbound and other means.

The Agency's publications range from a book of photographic collaborations by Manuel Vason  (Exposures, published in partnership with Black Dog, 2002), to the limited edition artwork cum lecture kit The Performance Pack (created by Joshua Sofaer and jointly published with Tate Interpretation and Education, 2004), to a series of essays, creative texts, and photographic works developed from Live Culture for Live: Art and Performance (edited by Adrian Heathfield and published with Tate Publishing, 2004), to an overview of contemporary Chinese performance, China Live (published by Chinese Arts Centre in collaboration with the Agency, 2005), to a collection of case studies considering the nature and place of experimental theatre in the UK (Programme Notes: Case Studies For Locating Experimental Theatre, 2007, commissioned by Arts Council England). 
The Agency also publishes its own on-demand dvds ranging from highlights of Everything You Wanted To Know About Live Art But Were Afraid To Ask information and advice days for younger artists, to Tim Etchells and Adrian Heathfield performance dialogue Somewhere Near Variety (a collaboration with Forced Entertainment). The Agency also commissions on-demand dvds by artists such as Howard Matthew, Richard Dedomenici, and Oreet Ashery where the artists conceive and author dvds of their work and the Agency produces and distributes them an on-demand basis through Unbound.