Bea Rubio-Gabriel

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.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.