Art for

The image is from my piece ‘ Plan B’ at Theatro Polis 2016, invited by curator Yiannis Τoumazis, to react to the painting of Glyn Hughes

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

Hug huge

Lia

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 !

https://www.liaharaki.com/
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