Laura Lulika
Based in Leeds, UK, Laura Lulika is an artist whose experiences of being a disabled queer neurodivergent and working-class parent shapes their creative practice. When released from periods of being bed/house-bound, Lulika can usually be found sat on their stoop or gardening in their front yard, developing their medicinal garden, often surrounded by several curious neighbourhood kids.
Tracing wiggly lines from ancient to contemporary storytelling methods is the main thread of interest that runs through all of Lulika’s experiments. Speculative narratives grow from the absurd or everyday, allowing the work to expand on lived experiences of medical mysticism, sick deities and rural counterculture.
Using whatever materials they can get their hands on, scrap, natural or digital, Lulika enjoys making from what is readily available with a conscious consideration for the environmental need for degrowth, as well as limiting material toxins for personal access reasons.
Health precarity and changing access needs have given Lulika the opportunity to shift their practice from performance to video to collective work to accessibility to sound to sculpture and it continues to evolve.
Part of Lulika’s work is to provide accessibility and EDI training, workshops, talks, auditing and access information documents in various formats for arts organisations and festivals. They are currently doing ongoing access and EDI work with Counterflows Sound Art Festival in Glasgow, Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, and local to them, East Leeds Project, where they are a trustee.
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