Lora Krasteva is an artist, cultural producer and activist. She creates multi-disciplinary, devised, socially and politically engaged works that connect communities, artists, institutions and decision-makers. One of her latest creative projects, Becoming British, is a six hours durational, task-based performance installation interrogating national identity from the perspective of 1st generation migrants in the UK.
In the past, Lora has worked with Arts & Homelessness International advocating for a place for creativity in homelessness provision and founded Global Voices Theatre, a female, non-binary and immigrant-led company introducing international plays in the UK. Currently, she is a Leadership Group member of What Next?, the UK movement for culture and a founding member of Migrants in Theatre, the movement advocating for a better representation of first generation immigrants. Lora lives in Sheffield where, besides her creative practice, she also works as a personal and professional development coach.
About Lora’s residency
For her residency, Lora will be developing her project ‘Return’. In a world that is increasingly obsessed with borders, the far right is rising and demanding people to “go back to where they come from”. But what does it mean – and what does it take – to return?
From impossible returns such as exile and forced displacement to more practical considerations of being back in a land/ country that has changed, Lora will be exploring the complexities of these processes through a multimedia project straddling performance, object storytelling and binaural sound.
This residency is part of the In Other Words project.
