8-590: 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 . 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. In 2021 Lois Keidan stood down as director, and Barak adé Soleil and Chinasa Vivian Ezugha were appointed as joint co-directors. LADA has
16-435: A board of patrons composed of 10 established artists who have contributed significantly to the development of Live Art. 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
24-472: A collection of more than 8,000 items ranging from theoretical texts to DVDs, videos, CDs and digital files of performance documents and documentation. This resource was described by The Independent as one of the UK's 50 best museums and galleries. LADA produces projects to help develop the visibility of, and opportunities for, artists making live work from diverse backgrounds. LADA has published and co-published
32-407: A number of boards and advisory panels, including Artsadmin (London) and Performa (New York), and is currently on the board of Spill Festival . In 1999, she was awarded an honorary fellowship by Dartington College of Arts , and in 2009 she was awarded an honorary fellowship by Queen Mary, University of London . In response to the significant shifts in the performance art scene in the UK in
40-510: A number of titles relating to Live Art: Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh , edited by Adrian Heathfield , with the MIT Press , Perform Repeat Record edited by Adrian Heathfield and Amelia Jones with Intellect. Intellect Live book series a collaboration with Intellect Books on influential artists working at the edge of performance: The Live Art Almanac is an edited collection of writing on Live Art, gathered and re-published as
48-797: A volume on an occasional basis since 2008. Lois Keidan Lois Keidan is a British-born cultural activist and writer. She co-founded the Live Art Development Agency with Catherine Ugwu in 1999 and was the Director of the Agency until 2021. She was the former director of live arts at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) from 1992 to 1997. Prior to working at the ICA, she was responsible for national policy and provision for Performance Art and interdisciplinary practices at
56-667: The Arts Council of Great Britain . Keidan is a proponent and advocate for Live Art in the UK and has been instrumental in the development and support of artists who have tended to be 'marginalised, misunderstood and misrepresented". Keidan has written articles and edited books on performance and Live Art and made contributions to a range of journals and publications. She regularly gives talks and presentations on performance and Live Art at festivals, colleges, venues and conferences in Britain and internationally. She has participated in
64-499: The 1980s and 1990s, Keidan authored the Arts Council of Great Britain's Strategy: Discussion Document on Live Art in 1991. This document was written to "map current practices and provisions for live art as well as to identify key issues". The report used the term Live Art, instead of performance art to define a set of practices and cultural strategies that were apparent in the UK at the time. The report covered "areas as diverse as
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