High Steaks

A thought-provoking, vulnerable, and healing show about labia-shaming, cosmetic surgery and fundamentally, labia celebration. Melding performance art and comedy clowning, ELOINA hangs two beef steaks from her labia, butchers them up, cooks them on a grill and serves them in HIGH STEAKS discussing the rising demands in young people for labiaplasty, the surgery to make the labia smaller and more symmetrical. Created in response to her own experience of wanting labiaplasty when she was ten years old, ELOINA considers her own and other’s labia and the obscene pressure for this body part to conform to what we see and expect from media. The show is directed by performance artist Louise Orwin (Pretty Ugly, Oh Yes Oh No).