Our curatorial projects and programmes are all designed strategically, responding to the challenges of contemporary society by promoting ground-breaking artists and works, and developing new contexts, dialogues, and audiences.
The Disabled Avant Garde (Katherine Araniello and Aaron Williamson), M21: From the Medieval to the 21st Century, DASH and Live Art Development Agency, 2012
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.
Read moreLADA 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.
Read moreAn unprecedented research project into Live Art in the UK.
Read moreA research project led by Clare Daly in a collaboration between LADA and the Department of Drama at the University of Roehampton, funded by the TECHNE doctoral awards scheme.
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‘It’s not the checkbox of diversity that feels good about this event; it is how diversity is facilitating me to understand and think about things in a way that I hadn’t before. Isn’t that what art is supposed to be about, after all?’
An artwork taking the form of a game, exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations
Read moreA collection of initiatives and resources for working with older individuals and communities
Read moreAn ongoing series of initiatives mapping and marking representations of identity politics in Live Art
Read moreA collection of initiatives and resources for working with the displaced
Read moreA collection of initiatives and resources for working with young people
Read moreAn online resource by Joshua Sofaer for audiences to deliver a lecture to themselves about themselves
Read moreBespoke opportunities for international presenters and artists to engage with Live Art
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Live Art is a cultural strategy to make space for experimental processes, experiential practices, and the bodies and identities that might otherwise be excluded from traditional contexts.
Rather than a description of an artform or discipline, Live Art is a way of thinking about what art is, what it can do, and where and how it can be experienced. Some may experience Live Art in a gallery, others in a theatre, and others still in forests or town squares, or as a process in which they are involved.
What is live art?
If you want to know what the mainstream will be up to in ten years’ time, just look at what Live Art is doing now.
Banner image credit: Dickie Beau, image by Christa Holka