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Out of the Margins: Performance in London’s institutions 1990s – 2010s

LADA is delighted to have physical and digital items from our archive included in the exhibition Out of the Margins: Performance in London’s institutions 1990s – 2010s at the Whitechapel Gallery, as well as the premiere of a video interview with LADA Co-Founder and Former Director Lois Keidan on the creation and growth of the Live Art Development Agency, filmed in 2019 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of LADA.

Out of the Margins examines the shifts in institutional engagement with Live Art, highlighting key moments that raised it from underground and marginalised to an acknowledged art form. Through archive display, the exhibition revisits seminal moments in this history – from Lois Keidan’s incorporation and adaption of underground nightclub performances at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 1996, to the inception of the LADA in 1999, and the milestone series A Short History of Performance (I, II, III, IV) at Whitechapel Gallery between 2002 and 2006.

Among other items from LADA’s archive, extended excerpts from the Performance Matters Archive are featured in the exhibition, along with photo and video documentation from Live Culture, and the LADA Study Room Guide Dreams for an Institution: A Study Room Guide on engaging & challenging institutions (Ed. Johanna Linsley).

Banner image credit:

Close-up of a flyer for Trashing Performance public programme (2010). Image by Owen Parry.

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