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Gloriya Avgust

Bulgaria / Italy / NetherlandsPerformances

Biography

Gloriya Avgust is a Bulgarian multidisciplinary artist currently based in Amsterdam (NL). Her practice blurs memoir, fiction, and feminist history to channel corporeal and semantic notions of womanhood. Engaging with the materiality of writing, she twists and morphs her subjects in a speculative funnel of possibilities, exploring gender, ancestry, the psychic, and the erotic as political tools for affirming one's life force and place in the world. Gloriya Avgust holds a BA from Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam and a MA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

Slippages of the Mouth, 2025 Performance

Performances
Curator / Team
with Andrea Celeste La Forgia / Curator: Boryana Petkova

Biting, spitting, chewing, swallowing, gagging, in Slippages of the Mouth, a performance conceived by Gloriya Avgust (BG) and Andrea Celeste La Forgia (IT), four characters linger over the taste of feminist class struggle and the slippery tensions between labour, the gendered body, identity and performance. By situating the mouth as a stage and the tongue as a site of revolt, the performance gapes open the vulnerability of bringing the foreign inside, casting all characters into question.