Immersive Live Cinema and Installation Art by Karla Kracht

Karla Kracht is a multidisciplinary artist based in Barcelona working across live cinema, installation, object theatre, and media art. She combines video, illustration, animation, sculpture, electronics, handmade objects, and performance into immersive works where analog craft meets hybrid technology.

Her work has been shown internationally at festivals, museums, galleries, theatres, and art centres, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes in Charleville-Mézières (official selection), Taipei Puppetry Art Center, National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile, Taoyuan Art Awards in Taiwan, Blaue Nacht Nuremberg, Lafayette Media Art Festival in Colorado, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Taipei Digital Art Center, Art Taichung, Georgetown Festival in Penang, Tabakalera in San Sebastián, Dlectricity in Detroit, Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, FigurenTheaterFestival Nuremberg, and House of Natural Fibre in Yogyakarta.

Her practice is built around live and site-responsive formats. She constructs retro-futurist worlds where handmade figures, miniature sets, live cameras, shadow projection, sound, light, and animation come together as a single performative image system. Across performances and installations, she stages speculative environments populated by strange creatures, machinic bodies, and mythological cyborg entities that respond to current social, technological, and political conditions.

Recent projects grow out of long-term research into myths, rituals, cosmologies, and spiritual technologies from different parts of the world. She looks at how human systems of meaning get passed on to machines, and how belief, memory, and ceremony might resurface in posthuman forms. This thread runs through Ghost in the Machine, What Humanity Taught Us, Divine Cyborg #17 – dancing with the ghosts, and the monograph High-Tech Ghosts for a Low-Life Future.

Kracht also takes part in international residencies and leads workshops on her artistic methodology at universities, festivals, and art spaces. She is currently developing projects around ritual, mysticism, and post-sapiens imaginaries, tracking the points where myth, technology, and machine agency meet.