ART FOR
Art for art’s sake
Art for love ache
Art for getting laid
Art for mom’s gaze
Art for soft brains
Art for taking a break
Art for making me look great
Art for breath intake
Art for making change
Art that never stayed
Art honestly faked
Art artificially claimed
Art as an income trade
Art ruthlessly betrayed
Art as nothing displayed
Art boringly safe
Art mindblowingly insane
Art for all we prayed
Art however made
Art for fuck’s sake
Lia Haraki
Lia Haraki is an interdisciplinary performer, maker and practitioner working across performance, devised theatre, choreography, song, spoken word and what she calls repetitive poetry. As a creator, she is occupied with issues related to identity, community and value and she beleives in the power of art as a medium that can trigger shifts in perception towards a fairer world.
Lia usually works with the moving and sounding qualities of the human body, in order to speak about its sociopolitical position, by challenging notions of normality associated to it. Beginning from self-sarcasm and working with satire, she enjoys finding performative ways to crack socially constructed narratives and reveal the illusion we have of them as ‘real’. In her pieces vulnerability and empathy are celebrated as human super powers and act as threads that connect the performer with the audience.
Her work in general takes the shape of staged works, site-specific pieces, one on one experiences, sound installations, standup shows, music bands and performances in shops.
At the same time she is proud to have developed several practices through the collaborative artistic research of the past twenty years in the forms of workshops, coaching and artists’ mentoring. In general she considers inspiring others and triggering creativity awakenings especially in younger artists is her most sacred of services !
