Lois Keidan, the co-founder and director of the Live Art Development Agency reflects on its support and development of Live Art practices, and discourses in London, the UK and internationally, recognizing Live Art as "a cutural strategy to include experimental processes and experiential practices that might otherwise be excluded from established curatorial, cultural and critical frameworks. (...) Disrupting borders, breaking rules, defying traditions, resisting definitions, asking awkward questions and activating audiences, Live Art breaks the rules about who is making art, how they are making it and who they are making it for."

“In UK there are both cultural and legal imperatives driving issues of disability – imperatives for disabled people to both make art and experience art – and these imperatives have come about primarily through the Disability Arts Movement and the Disability Discrimination Act, both of which have had significant consequences for arts practices and audiences in UK.

Until the late 20th century disabled people in the UK were viewed paternalistically, using a medical model which saw disability as a physical or mental condition, and disabled people as long-term patients. In the 1970s the grassroots Disability Rights Movement led to the development of the social model of disability which distinguished between impairment as a physical or mental condition, and disability as physical or attitudinal barriers to participation. Within this context the Disability Arts movement, which also began as a disability-led, activist organization, developed the term disability arts as a way of describing the work of artists whose work reflected their experiences as impaired people. The Disability Arts movement defined disability arts as simply the creative expression by disabled people of what it is to be a disabled person.

Much later, the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) of 1995 (updated in 2005) was passed with the aim of ending the discrimination that many disabled people face, and giving disabled people rights in the areas of employment; education; access to goods, facilities and services; and buying or renting land or property. The Act requires public bodies to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people, and makes it unlawful for service providers to refuse to serve, or to provide service on worse terms to, a disabled person.”