Projects
Everything we do at LADA is driven by our commitment to Live Art in the UK and internationally.
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
Latest Projects
Reimagining Care: 200 Questions About Care by Rubiane Maia
Rubiane Maia’s 200 Questions about Care were developed out of her research as part of the six-month residency Reimagining Care.
Read moreReimagining Care
LADA’s latest project Reimagining Care focuses on contemporary discourses about care and care practices, exploring how they can contribute to transforming the art sector.
Read moreLive Art in Rural UK
Live Art in Rural UK is a year long programme conceived by LADA’s former Director, Vivian Chinasa Ezugha. It focuses on amplifying the embodied practices of artists living and working in rural locations across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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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?’
Ongoing Projects
Reimagining Care
LADA’s latest project Reimagining Care focuses on contemporary discourses about care and care practices, exploring how they can contribute to transforming the art sector.
Read moreHow We Work
We are committed to:
- working collaboratively based on shared values
- showing respect to artists and arts workers, their labour and ideas
- responding to the needs of a diverse society
- ensuring equality of access and opportunity
- maintaining financial transparency and ethics
- reducing our impact on the planet and its climate
- creating the conditions in which innovation, experimentation and risk can thrive
About Live Art
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
