A major research project into the histories and futures of the Live Art sector in the UK

Ivy gave a public presentation at LADA in July 2019, about their work and issues of queer spirituality and Afrofuturism

Annie Jael Kwan discusses the research of their Diverse Actions Leadership Bursary

Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4 talks about her experience of becoming LADA’s second Arthole Award Patron

Profiling the photographic collaborations between a number of students on the MA Live Art and artist Holly Revell.

Tara Fatehi Irani writes on her year-long project, making 365 performance-installations which shared micro-histories from her family archive from Tehran

The UK’s first MA in Live Art is open for applications

Announcing two new partnerships between LADA and the Department of Drama at QMUL

A new Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal researched and written by the artists, activists and academics Emily Underwood-Lee and Lena Šimić

A Study Room Guide on Food and Performance by ‘I’m With You’

New gallery blog containing selected images from our new online Study Room Guide

How the ‘Live Art Almanac Volume 4’ navigates and reflects the complexities of Live Art writing and readership.

Artists opportunity to get involved with WALKING WOMEN

Documentation from the Decolonial Actions event on 13 Feb 2016

The Study Room will be open to the public for the first time on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings and on Saturdays

LADA is delighted to be able to offer UK and international promoters temporary installations of bespoke Study Boxes containing hand picked selections of DVDs, books and other materials from the LADA Study Room around specific themes

We are very pleased to share LADA’s 2014-15 Annual Review, highlighting a selection of the many events, opportunities, publications and research projects that we have produced in the last 12 months

New Sweatshop on Documentation in collaboration with the Artsadmin, looking at a range of approaches to documenting performative and participatory work

Launch events in Belfast, London and Dublin for the first book devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland

Symposium produced by DASH asking those awkward questions around diversity, the shifting definitions and its place in the cultural mainstream

We are excited to announce the launch of the ‘Are We There Yet?’ – a Study Room Guide on Live Art and Feminism

Launch of ‘Are We There Yet? – a Study Room Guide on Live Art and Feminism’, curated by Lois Weaver in collaboration with Eleanor Roberts and LADA

Jane Trowell and Gary Anderson discuss Activism and Live Art

A hand picked selection of materials from LADA’s Study Room will be available to view throughout Tempting Failure

LADA will have a book table at the London Art Book Fair, profiling a full range of Agency publications, DVDs and editions

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art

Opportunity for artists to incorporate critical theory into their practice and practice into their theory, in order to utilise their body as a political tool for change

Bean, Benjamin Sebastian and Jordan McKenzie discuss Artist Run Spaces

]performance s p a c e [ have placed a call out for direct responses in the form of written essays that engage with Performance Art Faction

Presenting our first-ever Publications Catalogue.

The Live Art Development Agency will be hosting a pop-up Study Room as part of the exhibition ‘UPSTAIRS @White_Building’

We are inviting YOU to contribute and to help us produce the best possible record of Lois’s life and work, featuring as many wonderful and often previously unpublished photographs as we can fit in… elegantly!

French & Mottershead and Pope & Guthrie discuss Socially Engaged Practice and Live Art

An event considering the increasing presence of ephemeral, itinerant Live Art practices within museums, galleries, biennials and art fairs

Stacy Makishi and Joshua Sofaer discuss Professional Development and Live Art

A selection of essays written about Katherine Araniello’s 2011 performance ‘The Dinner Party’

A hand picked selection of materials from LADA’s Study Room will be available to view throughout the Live Collision Festival

A day workshop introducing a ground-breaking new approach to research and evaluation in the arts

A talk by Aaron Wright on the UK Live Art scene and the work of LADA at Grace Exhibition Space on Friday April 4th (8pm)

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Dickie Beau and Gavin Butt discuss the relationship between research and Live Art

Maddy Costa and Mary Paterson discuss the relationship between critical writing and Live Art.

A series of short dialogues with some of the exceptional artists and thinkers that LADA has had the pleasure of working with over the last 15 years

Long Table on Live Art and Feminism documentation now available.

Documentation from the event including audio and images.

A new Study Room Guide by Johanna Linsley

Day long symposium and screening event on dialogues in art, performance and film.

Unbound Stall with The Gluts performing songs from their recently released The Gluts: Complete Works DVD