Lou Croff Blake

Lou Croff Blake (they/them) is a transgender artist, writer, and performer based in Berlin, Germany. Their work integrates queer theory with ecology and folklore, guided by a collage of regenerative methodologies. Across transmedial projects, they dissolve the barriers between creative play and critical analysis, alchemizing scholarship into transmissible expression. They interweave artistic research, upcycling and costuming, storytelling, and somatic workshops, crafting new narratives on ‘queering’ as a process that extends far beyond gender.

Their work integrates queer theory with ecology and community-building, driven by radical curiosity in regenerative ways of working. In their multidisciplinary body of work, they dissolve the barriers between creative play and critical analysis. Transmedial projects interweave artistic research, upcycling and costuming, storytelling, and somatic workshops, generating collectivist narratives on ‘queering’ as a process that extends far beyond gender. As an advocate for intersectional environmentalism, they focus on connecting dots between ecosystemic thought, social justice and decolonialism, gender diversity, and accessibility.

Reaching towards allies, they speak and teach on topics of regenerative sustainability and gender inclusivity in fashion and the arts.

As “Chimera,” a duo with collaborator Madelyn Byrd, they embark on projects that push the boundaries around what it means to be a citizen of Earth, merging artistic embodied experiments with science and fantasy. In 2025, duo’s speculative worlding manifests in projects at AADK’s Cruce program (funded by The Goethe Institute’s Culture Moves Europe grant) and School of Commons’ peer learning program (located at Zürich University of the Arts).