As part of the continuous development of the Study Room we regularly commission a range of artists and thinkers to write personal Study Room Guides to help navigate users through this resource.
The idea is to enable Study Room users to experience the materials in a new way and highlight materials that they may not have otherwise come across.
The following Study Room Guides are available to view in our Study Room, or can be downloaded as a pdf directly from each individual Study Room catalogue entry, which may be found below.
Forthcoming Study Room Guides include those on the Swiss Live Art context and on South East Asian Live Art.
We have also compiled a list of resources dealing with the issues around documentation and Live Art.
In 2009, Sea Shucksmith produced a Young People’s Resource Pack which is designed to guide and inspire teachers, educators and students through a range of physical and digital Live Art resources.
A Study Room Guide on Swiss Live Art authored by Andrea Saemann and Madeleine Amsler
Read moreA Study Room Guide on Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Ecologies in Live Art, curated by Arts Feminism Queer / CUNTemporary.
Read moreManaging the Radical is a project considering the idea of what it means to manage the radical (or radicalise the management) and aims to rethink, reposition, and reimagine how art that operates and thinks ‘differently’ is created, produced, peopled, framed, funded, represented and contextualised.
Read moreThis Study Room Guide on Live Art and animals is based on the artists’ films, books and contextualising materials LADA developed for Animals of Manchester (including HUMANZ) and documentation of that project.
Read moreTimely Readings: A Study on Live Art in Australia considers what kind of history might be revealed through a poetic analysis of the seminal Australian Live Art document RealTime Magazine. Their process not only shows Live Art practices as they currently exist across Australia, but also attempts to map the emergence of the form.
Read moreResponding to a widespread lack of resources on neurodiversity and performance, this Study Room Guide containing a collection of recorded conversations with neurodivergent artists working in Live Art and performance; a list of resources relating to this field and a contextualising essay by the artist Daniel Oliver.
Read moreThis Study Room Guide, by the performance artist and liar Tom Cassani, draws together resources that inform the sometimes disparate and eclectic field of deception and performance.
Read moreThis Guide was written by the artist Kelly Green as part of a LADA research residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies when working with those who are excluded through economic and social barriers, and particularly reasons of class.
Read moreThis Guide was written by the artist Nando Messias, outlining theoretical and practical research into effeminacy, queer visibility and social violence.
Read moreThis Guide was researched and written by the artist and researcher Elena Marchevska as part of a LADA research residency for exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in working with the displaced.
Read moreLois Weaver’s Study Room Guide, Know-how, explores the possibilities of Live Art practices and methodologies in working with older people.
Read moreA Study Room Guide by the artist and researcher Sibylle Peters looking at key issues and works in relation to Live Art by, for, and with, children.
Read moreThis Guide is a record of WALKING WOMEN, a series of events held in London and Edinburgh in July and August 2016 celebrating the work of women using walking in their practice.
Read moreThis Guide explores the notion of border in relation to Live Art and the works of experimental artists addressing issues around physical borders.
Read moreThis Guide features fourteen individual artists and two artist collectives working in the mediums of Live Art around the topic of the maternal.
Read moreThe Guide has a specific focus on food, eating, and dining as they have been explored in artist performance and Live Art.
Read moreThis Guide includes information about artists who were making performance in the 1970s. It features texts by Helena Goldwater and Dominic Johnson.
Read moreThis Guide features a conversation between Lois Weaver and Lois Keidan about this project and their own personal histories of feminism and performance.
Read moreIn this Guide Tracey considers wider issues of remoteness and art through a range of artists’ practice with “the odd deviation into literature and theory”.
Read moreThemed collections of performance documentation and works for camera that LADA has been invited to curate for public programmes.
Read moreThis Guide looks at artists’ projects that engage with institutions, and considers how performance practice has engaged and challenged institutions.
Read moreThe On Falling Study Room Guide is a compilation of material from the Study Room Gathering Live Art and Falling hosted by Amy Sharrocks in November 2012.
Read moreThe Guide consists of notes from Lois Keidan’s presentation for Blackmarket, with added images and recommendations for further research and study.
Read moreThis Guide is interested in roots as well as routes; acknowledging the geographical, cultural and political context from which ideas and practices develop.
Read moreIn this Guide, arts, social justice and environmental group Platform has selected key texts that can be useful in helping to position oneself ethically.
Read moreBrutal Silences is a Study Room Guide featuring selected performances from eleven artists who interrogate and interrupt the silences that exist in Ireland.
Read moreThe Guide contains positions of twenty practitioners from diverse fields of poetry, theatre, visual art and performance on the topic of Performance Writing.
Read moreThe Guide reflects the ways in which the practices of live artists have engaged with, represented, and problematised issues of disability.
Read moreOne to One Performance offers a series of reflections on a number of performances created by artists for an ‘audience of one’.
Read moreThis Guide directs you to key artworks and texts in the Study Room (and beyond) in which the artist’s intention is to engage the audience in the work.
Read moreThis Study Room Guide profiles contemporary and historical performance art practices from China in a series of texts and works.
Read moreExtensive and comprehensive guide on documentation, live performance and its traces and ghosts,inspired by the documents of the Study Room itself.
Read moreRobert Pacitti’s Study Room Guide addresses socially and politically engaged performances that seek to question and transform the institutions of power.
Read moreThis Guide addresses performance and activism, and the strategies that artists have engaged with to address radical cultural, social and political agendas.
Read moreWorks that attempt to what possibly lies ahead, be that a city, a forest, a face, a cultural condition, a time, a language, a room or a sky.
Read moreA Study Room Guide considering issues of Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights, in relation to historical and contemporary practices and ideas of representation, documentation and archiving.
Read moreFranko B was invited to produce a guide looking at body based practices, including works employing the body as an artistic tool and site of representation. This guide was published in 2005.
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