Bauge is a performance artist living and working in the Netherlands. Her work challenges the boundaries of gender, labor, and identity, using the body as a tool to deconstruct societal norms and provoke critical reflection.
June 2019
CARBONARIUM performance festival, Kiev (Ukraine)
BEATBEET is a part two of the trilogy BEATBEET, exploring identity, cultural belonging, and resistance through the act of symbolic force-feeding. Working with raw beetroots—an Eastern European folkloric symbol and a food tied to personal memory—Bauge engages with the violence of imposed identity. The performance reflects on the ways individuals are metaphorically force-fed roles, values, and national myths, echoing childhood experiences and inherited narratives.
Photography: Istvan Kovacs
BEATBEET (part II)
In the trilogy BEATBEET I explore the topic of identity through the notion of forcefeeding. We are force-fed with the ideas of who we are, just like children are force fed with the food they hate. I use beetroots as a folkloric element and a symbol of an eastern european country side to which I was told I belong. It is also the food I was force fed.
BEAT BEET is a performance art piece by Larysa Bauge