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Help us restock the Study Room!

We need your help to raise £3k to restock the Live Art Research Collection and start collecting new resources.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Symoné – The Rules of Watching: Interactive Talk

Artists Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Symoné will collaborate on an interactive talk exploring the intersections between live art and gaming.

Desk Scheme Open Call

Our subsidised Desk Scheme for artists, producers, curators, researchers and writers.

Visit LADA's Study Room

Our Study Room is home to the world’s largest collection of research materials on Live Art

We are a London-based charitable organisation, dedicated to the development of Live Art research, practice and infrastructure.

About LADA

A black person with short hair stands on a small step stool in a library, reaching up to pull a book from a tall wooden bookshelf. Rows of colorful books surround them in a bright reading space.

LADA Study Room, July 2025. Image credit Jemima Yong

Live Art Bookshop

Live Art Bookshop is a Live Art Development Agency retail and publishing initiative, previously known as Unbound. LADA invests 100% of the profits from Live Art Bookshop into future programmes that support the practices of artists and thinkers.

Live Art Bookshop specialises in distributing the unruly ideas, methodologies and histories of interdisciplinary live and performance practices, globally.

We sell a curated selection of hard-to-find publications, media and limited editions, including artists’ books and LADA’s own titles.

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