Lia Haraki is an interdisciplinary performance artist 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, ecology and value and beleives in the power of art as a medium that can trigger shifts in perceptions towards a fairer world.
She 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, as well as coaching and mentoring methods for artists. In general she considers inspiring others and triggering creativity awakenings especially in younger artists is her most sacred of services.