Volha Maslouskaya & Raman Tratsiuk

Belarus

"Bergamot use some of their performances for body focused actions that extend through to physically violent exchanges to attack each other, thereby acting out the mechanisms of power and control that latently pervade our day-to-day lives." (Rainer Fuchs)

Organic Life Performance 2005

Volha Maslouskaya trained in art in Belarus and Poland and lives in Belarus; Raman Tratsiuk trained in painting in Poland where he now lives. In 1998 they formed themselves into the group known as Bergamot, working in performance and video in Austria, France, Germany as well as Poland and Belarus. These performances sometimes take place spontaneously in public spaces where they engage in what is normally private behaviour.