LADA is appalled by the ongoing genocide and massacre of civilians in Gaza. We have made a list of petitions, open letters, organisations, and ways to get involved that we hope you’ll find useful.

The Live Art Development Agency is delighted to announce that we have re-entered Arts Council England’s National Portfolio.

Interim Director, Ria Righteous, provides a statement on the her current position with LADA and aims for the organisation’s future.

With the help and support of LADA patrons, the former board of directors has now been replaced by a completely new board as of July 2023.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this closure may cause throughout the month of August.

Live Art Development Agency is pleased to announce Malik Nashad Sharpe as our second Black Scholars Residency artist.

Live Art Development Agency is pleased to announce Madinah Farhannah Thompson as our first Black Scholars Residency artist.

LADA welcomes Tania Camara as new Interim Artist Development Manager.

Live Art Development Agency is pleased to welcome Ria Righteous as the new Interim Director.

LADA statement on Arts Council England NPO funding announcement

Reimagining Care is a research residency by artist Rubiane Maia. The residency focuses on processes and exchanges rather than outcome, and is funded through the salary of LADA’s Co-Director Chinasa Vivian Ezugha.

Decrypting Performance Art is a one-day seminar at VSSL studio, led by Rocío Boliver

An archive exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery featuring material from LADA’s collection

Some Reflections from LADA Co-Directors

PLAYING UP Gender edition launches in 2021. PLAYING UP GENDER is a production of FUNDUS THEATER I Theatre of Research, in cooperation with the Live Art Development Agency.

LADA announces new leadership.

Raimund Hoghe has died. Mary Kate Connolly has written these words in memory, and in tribute.

LADA seeks new leadership for a new era of Live Art

A series of reflections and artistic responses by to the Politics of Intimacy in Practice DIY, by Raju Rage, Kyla Harris and Andre Medina, Rabindranath A Bhose, and Vanessa Young.

2020’s Unbound seasonal sale is Twelve Days of Unbound – 12 days of 12 guest editors with each recommending books or films or editions that they would like to give or receive as festive gifts, and all offered at 12% discount.

Highlighting a selection of LADA’s projects and initiatives we have produced between April 2019 – March 2020

LADA Statement of Commitment on organisational change and racial equality

The recipients of LADA’s online collaborative residencies are the artist Jet Moon and her client ‘Giani’, and the artists Jemima Yong and Kei Franklin.

A statement from LADA on organisational change.

We are delighted to announce that the recipients of the Katherine Araniello Bursary awards are Katayoun Jalilipour and Tammy Reynolds.

We are delighted to announce that Aislinn Evans has been awarded the 2020 Future Proofing bursary

LADA regrets to announce that in the interests of the safety of our artists, collaborators, audiences, community and staff, we are closing our office and Study Room, and postponing all events until the beginning of May, at the earliest.

Documentation and responses to SKIN IN THE GAME, a symposium on cultural diversity and Live Art organised by Diverse Actions.

Kay Hyatt placed the winning bid for one of the Live Art experiences auctioned at LADA’s anniversary gala.

A critical response to Animals of Manchester, written by Maddy Costa and Mary Paterson

We’ve created this short film on the occasion of our 20th Anniversary which looks back at 20 years of our work.

In this blog, artist and researcher Leticia Izquierdo Díaz reflects on research undertaken during a residency at LADA.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of three new members of LADA staff.

Watch our two performingborders commissions by Tara Fatehi Irani and Istanbul Queer Art Collective

Documentation of a day of discussions around kickstarting and maintaining a Live Art practice.

A response by Lewis Church to ‘Take the Money and Run: Power, Money and Counter-Power’, an event considering how we might build for future struggles to free art and artists from their dependency on the proceeds of toxic capitalism.

A major research project into the histories and futures of the Live Art sector in the UK

A podcast created during Animals of Manchester (including HUMANZ), LADA’s collaboration with Theatre of Research for Manchester International Festival 2019

Ivy gave a public presentation at LADA in July 2019, about their work and issues of queer spirituality and Afrofuturism

A blog by LADA Thinker-in-Residence Hester Chillingworth on Live Art and Wrongness.

Annie Jael Kwan discusses the research of their Diverse Actions Leadership Bursary

Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4 talks about her experience of becoming LADA’s second Arthole Award Patron

Highlighting a selection of LADA’s projects and initiatives we have produced between April 2018 – March 2019

The third iteration of LADA’s Diverse Actions Leadership Bursaries have been awarded to Travis Alabanza and Annie Jael Kwan

The Award aims to celebrate the intimate work that Adrian pioneered and excelled.