Engages,
Bea Rubio-Gabriel a la juventud filipina (pagasa)
Dates: Saturday 14 December, 2.30pm
There are many common threads across stories of migration and displacement. Sacrifices of the present laid bare for the future. The struggle of constant work, of labouring to preserve cultural knowledges, the trauma that occurs when pieces of you must be lost. The relief of acceptance, the softness of protection, the strength in finding your community. There is no clear language of migration. There becomes an impossibility to truth. You unfold as a stranger to yourself.
No longer translation, I want resonances. Neither shallow or intimate understandings, never able to be made whole, my thoughts are now –can you feel what I am feeling? That to feel in solidarity with someone is not always necessarily to grasp them.
Rather than creating “mutual spaces of understanding” I long for collective spaces of un-knowing, created mutually.
An aesthetics of performance that is grounded in communal movements disrupts the accepted reality of how a performing body can be understood.
Each gesture can only be an approximation to the truth, a continual process of (re-)becoming and unmaking, constantly morphing into being. Asking:
what is given?
what is received?
what is lost?
what persists?
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This event is part of our Performance Takeover program running on the 13 and 14 December.
Friday 13 Dec, event at 6pm, performances beginning at 6.30pm.
Saturday 14 Dec, event at 2pm, performance beginning at 2.30pm. Potluck from 3pm.
Free admission.
No bookings required.
Held at: Bus Projects (Ground Floor, 7 Little Miller Street, Brunswick East, VIC 3057)
Bea Rubio-Gabriel is a performance artist, writer, and curator born in the Philippines now living and working in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Performance becomes a way to re-imagine the ‘&/’ space as cultural imaginary for the utopian present as it interrogates the scaffoldings of power. Approaching writing as artform and ephemera, they use ergodic texts and handmade print-publishing to create new modes of access and dismantle dominant knowledge and power structures. Their research currently focuses on the moral economy of labour, migration and familial sacrifice, the politics of translation, and the transformation of care™ into the act of ‘tending to.’