New LADA Staff Members

Three new people join the LADA team

LADA at 20

Events and editions for LADA's 20th Anniversary

Katherine Araniello Bursary Award

For artists who works in Live Art and identify as a disabled person

Future Proofing

An Artist’s Bursary Call for Proposals

Gut Reactions: Watch, Read, Chat

Part reading-group, part-social, part-film sessions - 17 December 2019

LADA supports contemporary culture’s most radical artists, practices and ideas.

As a Centre for Live Art, all our specialised resources, opportunities, projects and events are driven by our unwavering commitment to experimentation and risk, to the sustainability of our planet, and to difference and diversity in all its forms. 

We believe in Live Art as a means to challenge the status quo and initiate meaningful social change.

About LADA
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Current Events

We present regular public talks, screenings and events at The Garret Centre and elsewhere. All our events are free to attend.

LADA Screens: Narcissister – Online Screening

15 Nov 2019 - 12 Feb 2020
Online Screening

LADA is thrilled to present Upside Down (2011) by Narcissister.

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Gut Reactions: Watch, Read, Chat

17 Dec 2019 - 21 Apr 2020
Talk

Part reading-group, part-film club, and part-social, Gut-Reactions returns for its newest series of Study Room Sessions at LADA.

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Dissenting Bodies Marking Time – Study Movie Room and Bibliotheque

08 Jan 2020 - 18 Jan 2020
Screening

LADA has curated a Bibliotheque and video review as part of the next iteration of Venice International Performance Art Week.

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LADA Screens: selina bonelli

13 Feb 2020
Screening

A screening of (re)collecting (f)ears, a film documenting a number of performances by the artist selina bonelli.

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What can LADA do for you?

Whether you are an artist, curator, writer, producer, student, educator, researcher or activist, we are here to help you understand, appreciate, dig into, and take inspiration from a huge breadth of Live Art and performance practices – contemporary and historic. 

How we work?
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Current Opportunities

LADA provides professional development opportunities for artists, arts workers, and academics at all stages of their careers.

Women Working Class (WWC)
Open Calls

An open call to participate in a bi-monthly Working Group and series of gatherings led by Fox Irving. Deadline for proposals is 20 December 2019.

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Future Proofing
Open Calls

A call for proposals for a bursary of £2,000 to an artist aged under 25 to imagine the future they’d like to see. Deadline Friday 7 February 2020.

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Ongoing

DIY
DIY

Unusual professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists

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Ongoing

Information, Advice and Research
Professional Development

Information and advice on practical and conceptual issues related to Live Art

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Video: 20 Years of LADA

We’ve created this short film on the occasion of our 20th Anniversary which looks back at 20 years of our work. The film features archive material from our projects and initiatives as well as interviews with Katy Baird, Lauren Barri Holstein, Season Butler, vacuum cleaner, Tim Etchells, Marcia Farquhar, Brian Lobel, Stacy Makishi, Nando Messias and Martin O’Brien.

Donate to LADA

Donations help make influential artists’ development initiatives like DIY possible, support new publications and projects by extraordinary artists, and help us buy essential books and DVDs for our Study Room.

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Projects

Curatorial projects and programmes featuring ground-breaking artists and developing new contexts, dialogues, and audiences. 

Ongoing

Library of Performing Rights
Programmes

The Library of Performing Rights is available as a place of action, a place of knowledge exchange, a repository of experience, and a context that others can use to support and advance their own work both at LADA and elsewhere.

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MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester (including HUMANZ)
Programmes

A project by Theatre of Research & LADA for Manchester International Festival 2019

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LADA and Swiss Live Art
Partnerships

LADA is working with Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council on a three-year initiative (2018-20) to raise the profile of Swiss Live Art in the UK and contribute to the development of exchanges and collaborations between artists and promoters in the UK and Switzerland.

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Live Art Histories and Futures: a major research project into the Live Art sector in the UK
Research

An unprecedented research project into Live Art in the UK.  

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More Projects

Resources

We provide free-to-access resources for artists, students and professionals. This includes Live Online, our video platform, research facilities, information, downloadable documents, and programming packages. 

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The Study Room

Our Study Room in Bethnal Green, London contains over 8,000 items, including out-of-print books and rare performance documentation.

You can book your visit today, and search our full Study Room catalogue online.

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Online Resources

We offer online resources including:

  • Study Room catalogue
  • Video channels
  • Free downloads
  • Study Room guides
  • Project websites
Browse Resources

LADA Publishing

LADA is a publisher. The books, films and artists’ editions published and co-published by LADA feature some of the most provocative ideas and practitioners working in Live Art, and pioneering research by thinkers in the field.  

As well as partnering with major publishers on key titles, we publish our own books and editioned artworks and collaborate with artists working on independent publications.

See our Titles
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Unbound - Online Shop

Unbound, is the world’s only online shop dedicated to Live Art related materials, and features the unusual and independent alongside major critical works. Our carefully-curated selection includes books from major publishers, hard-to-find artists’ editions, and a full range of LADA publications. 

As a not-for-profit initiative, buying from Unbound directly benefits the UK’s Live Art infrastructure, with many of our supported artists counting it as a direct funding stream.

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