A lost dance. A lost show. A story. Dee Jumbie Dance: A Resurrection is based on Jamal Gerald’s work and research for JUMBIE, a performance aiming to resurrect the Jumbie dance of the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

Unframing Photography: Performing the image to see otherwise comprises a culmination of the titular multifaceted project that was initiated by the urgency to reconsider the medium of photography as a technology of visuality.

A treasure-trove of performance exercises that will be invaluable to performance-makers, educators and students as they develop their creative practice.

Three discrete commissions using performance and experimental documentary to explore the body as a site for the production and retention of knowledge.  

Common Salt was a performance around a table – a ‘show and tell’ by artists Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer. It explored the colonial, geographical and natural history of England and India taking an expansive and emotional time-travel.  

Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles is a book of intergenerational dialogue between artists, scholars and activists about what it means to transfer the skills, ideas and mysteries of performance through pandemic and crises.

A good love story shouldn’t have too many words. This one gets to the point as directly as possible. It turns “me too” into sex-positive empowerment and dark comedy, whilst talking about contemporary Live Art, genderfluidity, online dating, polyamory and its pitfalls.  It is a feminist celebration of love and the attempt to escape from sexism, ageism and racism by pitching them all against each other and leaving the party with the sweetest guy of all.  

Through prose, poetry, drawing and photography In Other Words is a collection of urgent reflections, created by artists exploring their hopes and fears at a time of global crisis.  It is a clarion call for change from a group rich in wisdom, shared experience, and what it means to be marginalised in the UK in 2020.  

Four essays on the four artists shortlisted for the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2020.

Drawning on a year-long project by the artist Tara Fatehi Irani, Mishandled Archive is a way of imagining, creating and disseminating a nomadic archive.

A new anthology of cultural criticism, focusing on the making, watching and conditions of Live Art and performance in the UK today.

With a mixture of intellect, humour, and striking design, Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices.

A collaboration between Intellect Books and the Live Art Development Agency on influential artists working at the edge of performance.

This book documents some of Daniel Oliver’s awkward participatory performance worlds, and brings together critical and creative response by artists and writers.

Four essays on the four artists shortlisted for the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2019.

Praxis Volume Two is an invitation to encounter work and thinking in motion, responding to place, conversation and archiving.

The fifth edition of LADA’s ‘Live Art Almanac’ series, a collections of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art

It’s Time responds to the recent successes of Live Art and highlights those artists, projects and initiatives which are re-politicising and re-energising our arts spaces.

Box set collection of 20 postcards representing key LADA projects and initiatives, 1999-2019

Limited edition artworks by Robert Daniels, 20 miniature sculptures of seminal performance works

Looking back at the last 20 years of Live Art through the lens of LADA, edited by Theron Schmidt and co-published with Intellect Books

Chucking marginalised status out of the patriarchal pushchair, this anthology cites work by people who perform rebellious gen-age identities.

An extraordinary response by artist Lucy Hutson to their experiences within the mental health system.

The first substantial survey on the work of the artist Anne Bean.

Two new resources by artist Kelly Green on Live Art, Class and Cultural Privilege.

A pair of resources on Live Art and the displaced by artist and researcher Elena Marchevska.

Two resources by artist and activist Lois Weaver on working with older individuals and communities.

Two new resources on Live Art and the Young by artist and researcher Sibylle Peters.

A swanky archive book documenting a decade of making art and trouble.

An intimate collection on love and dissent by artists and writers.

Essays and dialogues reflecting on a four year pan European project.

A free zine for teens by Scottee, Travis Alabanza, Selina Thompson, Emma Frankland.

A collection of resources on Live Art and certain disempowered constituencies.

A publication gathering a variety of materials on the subject of masturbation.

The extraordinary story of Franko’s life, loves and becoming an artist.

The first book to bring together writing and documentation on the artist Martin O’Brien

Curated by Curious, ABC can be used by artists and non-artists in need of creative succour and survival

A book based on Tanja Ostojić’s project ‘the Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojić’.

This publication is the first major survey of the interdisciplinary practices of Kira O’Reilly

Four new resources on class, youth, age and displacement.

A publication written in response to Cherophobia, a 48­-hour durational living installation by Noëmi Lakmaier

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Applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating

One of the LADA’s tenth anniversary commissioned artworks exclusive to Unbound

A collection that considers the affective and critical practice of finding, remembering (or imagining), and creating an archive

A conversation about community, engagement, collaboration and co-creation

Various examples linking audience participation in theatre to problems of social engagement

This book is a collection of essays and interviews addressing institutional crises and performance