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How much do we change when we move to a new country? What do we embrace, resist, leave behind? Can we really, one day, become “truly” British? And what does that even mean? 

Becoming British is a 6h durational performance installation created by Lora Krasteva. It challenges and interrogates national identity and notions of belonging through the perspective of first generation migrant artists and communities. At the intersection of installation, live art and a broadcast, Becoming British is a task-based performance that portrays the demands put on us as migrants whilst celebrating the quirks of Britishness we are ready to embrace and highlighting the uncomfortable truths that are part of it too.

Pluto Press supports the projects by supplying a selection of critical texts for one of the Becoming British tasks (the Evidence Table), in which excerpts of the following books might be read.

We invite our audiences to spend more time with the items of this digital Becoming British library, learning more about the themes and topics that have informed the creative work.