A raw performance about labour, recovery and grounding.
In the farmyard of wannabe farmer Louis Vanhaverbeke, the boundary between agriculture and performance blurs. In Tractor Rhapsody, the artist returns to the soil after a period of mental upheaval, seeking grounding in physical labour and the rhythms of the earth. Sowing, harvesting, composting - gestures that make time tangible again.
Through songs, actions, and machines, a vulnerable self-portrait unfolds, balancing between the mind and the deep ground, between ‘acting normal’ and stubbornly continuing to deviate. What begins as an attempt to reconnect with the earth grows into a reflection on labour, recovery, and the desire to follow your own rhythm. On stage, agricultural machines appear as performative partners: their sound, weight, and movement set the pace and shatter the romantic image of rural life.
Tractor Rhapsody is a raw ode to slowness, where grounding is not a lofty concept but a necessary, physical process. In a cycle of loss and renewal, this performance invites the audience to move with the time of the soil, where history, labour, and life continuously intermingle.