About the project:
‘Tales of Transformation' is a video/live performance and archive project that explores the possibility of transforming personal traumas into fairytales filled with digital ghosts and video-twins. This project is a form of healing through creative expression, deliberate exaggeration, and looking at personal trauma (or any important experience) from a different angle.
This website is dedicated to the archival part, which now consists of my own fairytales alongside the stories from my workshops' participants. The final goal is to create a communal interactive fairytale book, a sort of collection that can be updated whenever a new participant arrives. The main planned outcome is the following 3 things:
If you wish to be a part of my future workshops, or just want to share your story, please refer to the 'Share your story' page of this website, or contact me directly via email ([email protected]).
This website is dedicated to the archival part, which now consists of my own fairytales alongside the stories from my workshops' participants. The final goal is to create a communal interactive fairytale book, a sort of collection that can be updated whenever a new participant arrives. The main planned outcome is the following 3 things:
- a series of video/live performances based on real stories re-worked as fairytales;
- a youtube archive of videos used in these performances;
- a web-library of tales, each accompanied by a video and photos.
If you wish to be a part of my future workshops, or just want to share your story, please refer to the 'Share your story' page of this website, or contact me directly via email ([email protected]).
About the author:
Mora is a performance and video artist, a queer clown and puppeteer, a feminist and LGBT activist. Member of 'Coming Out' LGBT-organization (Saint-Petersburg). An immigrant for the last 8 years - lived, studied and worked in England, China and Finland.
Queen Mary University of London graduate (MA Theatre and Performance, 2015). Kone Foundation art grant recipient (2020 - for 'Tales of Transformation' project). Artist in residency: Loviisa Artists' Studio (Loviisa, Finland, 2019), Faber (Olot, Spain, 2020), Saari (Finland, 2020). In recent years performed at Art Muse (Saint-Petersburg), Forum (Loviisa), Birmingham MAC, Battersea Arts Centre, Camden Peoples Theatre, Camden Centre, Brighton Dome, at various Duckie events, and in a number of galleries across the UK and Russia.
For more information and portfolio, please go to the artist's website: https://blackboxhead.weebly.com/about.html
Queen Mary University of London graduate (MA Theatre and Performance, 2015). Kone Foundation art grant recipient (2020 - for 'Tales of Transformation' project). Artist in residency: Loviisa Artists' Studio (Loviisa, Finland, 2019), Faber (Olot, Spain, 2020), Saari (Finland, 2020). In recent years performed at Art Muse (Saint-Petersburg), Forum (Loviisa), Birmingham MAC, Battersea Arts Centre, Camden Peoples Theatre, Camden Centre, Brighton Dome, at various Duckie events, and in a number of galleries across the UK and Russia.
For more information and portfolio, please go to the artist's website: https://blackboxhead.weebly.com/about.html