Live Art Development Agency

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The Live Art Development Agency (LADA)

Formation	1999; 26 years ago (1999)
Purpose	promoting Live Art, supporting artists
Location	The Garrett Centre 117A Mansford Street London
Key people	Lois Keidan, Director and co-founder
Website	www.thisisliveart.co.uk

Live Art Development Agency, known by its acronym LADA, is an arts organisation and registered charity founded in London in 1999 by Lois Keidan and Catherine Ugwu.^[1] LADA provides professional advice for artists as well as producing events and publications intended to enhance the understanding of and access to Live Art. They are an Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations.^[2] In 2021 Lois Keidan stood down as director, and Barak adé Soleil and Chinasa Vivian Ezugha were appointed as joint co-directors.^[3] LADA has a board of patrons composed of 10 established artists who have contributed significantly to the development of Live Art.^[4]

LADA is responsible for funding and co-ordinating Live Art UK, a network for bringing together organisations to support and develop Live Art infrastructures.

The LADA Study Room is an open access research facility for artists, students, curators, academics and other arts professionals. The Study Room houses a collection of more than 8,000 items ranging from theoretical texts to DVDs, videos, CDs and digital files of performance documents and documentation.^[5] This resource was described by The Independent as one of the UK's 50 best museums and galleries.^[6]

• Live Culture (2003) an event at Tate Modern which included performances from Franko B, Forced Entertainment and a lecture by Marina Abramović.^[7]

LADA produces projects to help develop the visibility of, and opportunities for, artists making live work from diverse backgrounds.^[8][9]

LADA has published and co-published a number of titles relating to Live Art:

Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh, edited by Adrian Heathfield, with the MIT Press,^[10] Perform Repeat Record edited by Adrian Heathfield and Amelia Jones with Intellect.^[11] Intellect Live book series^[12] a collaboration with Intellect Books on influential artists working at the edge of performance:

• Joshua Sofaer (2020) edited by Roberta Mock and Mary Paterson^[13]
• Anne Bean (2019) edited by Rob La Frenais^[14]
• Kira O'Reilly (2018) edited by Harriet Curtis and Martin Hargreaves^[15]
• Adrian Howells (2016) edited by Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson^[16]
• Lois Weaver (2016) edited by Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie^[17]
• Ron Athey (2015) edited by Dominic Johnson^[18]
• Raimond Hoghe (2013) edited by Mary Kate Connolly^[19]

The Live Art Almanac is an edited collection of writing on Live Art, gathered and re-published as a volume on an occasional basis since 2008.

• The Live Art Almanac (2008).^[20][21]

• Keiden, L, Mitchell, CJ. 'In Time: A Collection of Live Art Case Studies'Eds. Live Art Development Agency in collaboration with Live Art UK

• Media related to Live Art Development Agency at Wikimedia Commons
• Live Art Development Agency (LADA) at Google Cultural Institute