Bea Rubio-Gabriel
Bea Rubio-Gabriel is a performance artist, writer, and curator born in the Philippines now based in Naarm/Melbourne. Drawing from Thirdspatial relationships and Resistance Aesthetics, they challenge current institutional and euro-centric modes of exhibiting through an interrogation of spatial relations, grounded in rhizomatic forms of care and collectivisation. Their research focuses on pre-colonial writing systems and (Philippine) Indigenous ways of healing and knowledge systems. Through performance and approaching writing as artform, they explore the intricacies and tensions of translation, the act of re-presentation, and how the Baybayin script may be activated as a gateway to rebuild cultural connections and create new futures.