LADA 20th Anniversary 2019
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- 2019
Video: 20 Years of LADA
We’ve created this short film on the occasion of our 20th Anniversary which looks back at 20 years of our work. The film features archive material from our projects and initiatives as well as interviews with Katy Baird, Lauren Barri Holstein, Season Butler, vacuum cleaner, Tim Etchells, Marcia Farquhar, Brian Lobel, Stacy Makishi, Nando Messias and Martin O’Brien.
LADA: 1999 - 2019
In 2019, LADA marked its 20th anniversary. We celebrated this milestone with a series of initiatives throughout the year, including –
- a new publication, Agency, A Partial History of Live Art edited by Theron Schmidt and co-published with Intellect Books, looking back at the last 20 years of Live Art through the lens of LADA
- Tiny Live Art (Development Agency) – 20 works for 20 years, 20 limited editions by Robert Daniels using miniature figures and dioramas to create sculptures of seminal performance works
- LADA at 20 Postcards – a boxed set of 20 postcards representing key LADA projects and initiatives 1999-2019
- 20 x 20: Artists reflect on 20 years of LADA – a radio series on Live Art histories and futures for Resonance FM
- Live Art on the page, the stage and the screen – a series of free events at The Garrett Centre
- A Live Art Gala – a star-studded Live Art fundraising gala to mark our 20th anniversary. “This is an almighty, giddy treat of a night.” – Run Riot
- Future Proofing – An Artist’s Bursary – a bursary of £2,000 to an artist aged under 25 to imagine the future they’d like to see, how their practice could shape it, and what they need to do that.
LADA's 20th Anniversary. Design by Alex Innes.
Listen and Read
- Listen to all 7 episodes in our radio series with Resonance FM, 20 x 20.
- Lyn Gardner talks to Lois Keidan on 20 years of the Live Art Development Agency for Run Riot.
- Joe Turnbull Interviewed Lois Keidan for Disability Arts Online Long Live, Live Art: Two decades of LADA.
- Lois Keidan was featured in the Mayor of London’s Creative People blog.
AGENCY: A Partial History of Live Art
Other projects in LADA 20th Anniversary 2019
LADA marks its 20th anniversary in 2019 and will be celebrating with a series of initiatives throughout the year
20 x 20: Artists reflect on 20 years of Live Art, Resonance radio series
A new radio series for Resonance FM, taking place across LADA’s 20th anniversary year
Read moreLive Art on the page, the stage and the screen
To celebrate our 20th Anniversary we are hosting a series of free events here at our home at The Garrett Centre
Read moreAlso
The Garrett Centre Commission
The Garrett Centre Commission was intended to contribute to LADA’s engagement with our neighbourhood, with individuals and communities in Bethnal Green.
Read moreLife Lecture
An online resource by Joshua Sofaer for audiences to deliver a lecture to themselves about themselves
Read moreIt Could Only Happen Here: Jim Dahl’s unreal Boat tour
A new live work by Tim Bromage commissioned for the Floating Cinema 2013
Read moreFloating Cinema – A Smaller Sound, A Bigger Crowd
A film and performance by Ian Giles telling the story of The Docklands Bell
Read moreEdge of an Era
A new project revisiting a series of seminal performance events from the 1980’s.
Read moreM21: From the Medieval to the 21st Century
Interventions by leading disabled artists in the birthplace of the Olympic Games.
Read morePERFORMANSSI 2011, Turku, Finland
The Agency curates An Audience With…for European Capital of Culture.
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