Headshot of XR Artist Lara Kobeissi
Awards 

Grand Prix [2026] NewImages Festival
Impact Award [2026] NewImages Festival

Performances / Exhibitions // Talks
Upcoming:
● Nazar Performance, TBA London

● [Apr 2026] - Nazar Live VR Performance at NewImages Festival, Paris
● [Oct 2025] - Nazar Live VR Performance at Embodied Realms Festival, Poznan
● [Oct 2025] - Nazar Live Performance at Marsah Art Week, Tripoli Lebanon
● [Oct 2025] - Nazar Live Performance at Beirut Art Center
[Jul 2025] - Roundtable: Scènes arabes en mutation, perspectives et partenariats SVSN at Festival d'Avignon
● [Jun 2025] - Nazar Live VR performance at Shubbak, London
[Jun 2025] - Lara Habib Kobeissi in Conversation with Shubbak Director Alia Alzougbi at LADA, London
● [Nov 2024] - Nazar Live performance incorporating VR at D-CAF, Cairo
[Jun 2024] - Our Sanctuary VR Experience at Aspex, Portsmouth
● [Mar 2024] - Nazar User-Testing at Sursock Museum, Beirut
● [Dec 2023] - Nazar User-Testing Performance at Aspex, Portsmouth
[Mar 2022] - AWAN x IRQ at AWAN Festival, London
[Aug 2022] - SOS_22 Collective Exhibition at South London gallery
[Jul 2022] - StoryTrails, in 15 cities across the UK
Grants / Residencies // Commissions

AFAC [2022-2024] Performing Arts Grant
Resonate Residency [2023] ArtHouse Jersey
Studio ANRK [2023] There Exists
B3 Media [2023] Virtual Residency
Arts Council England [2022-2023] DYCP Grant
StoryFutures [2021-2022] StoryTrails
Arts Canteen [2022] AWAN Festival
B3 Media [2021] TalentLab XR (Dev Program)

Mentoring

Creative Catalyst II [2025] B3 Media
Futureleaks 2050 [2025] Action For Hope
AlterCare: A Worldbuilding Workshop [2025] British Council x Beirut Art Center
Resonate II Residency [2025] Play Office
Creative Catalyst [2025] B3 Media
TalentLab XR [2024] B3 Media
AWAN x IRQ [2023] Arts Canteen
Portsmouth City of Sanctuary [2023] Aspex Portsmouth

+NAZVR [Building a Future Archive]

A Multi-Sensory Live Performance incorporating VR

weaving a distant future in which users access the excavated home of a virtual dweller-in-the-hill in search of personalised Evil Eye treatments. Drawing on game mechanics and interactive storytelling, Nazar fully immerses audiences through visuals, sound, smell, taste and touch – temporarily transforming the performance stage in a ritualistic act of soft resistance that seeks to restore the body, collective memory and intangible heritage.

XR |Projects

Selected Projects List
  • Nazar [Building a Future Archive] 2023-2024 | AFAC – ACE – B3 Media
  • There Exists – Studio ANRK 2023 | BFI
  • StoryTrails – StoryFutures 2021-2022 | BFI