Concept Joshua Serafin

Performance Joshua Serafin, Lukresia Quismundo & Bunny Cadag

Sound Pablo Lilienfeld

Scenography RV Light Ryoya Fudetani

Costumes Katrien Baetslé

Video Federico Vladimir Strate Pezdirc

Artistic Assistance Rasa Alksnyte

Theory & Poetry Jaya Jacobo

Outside Eye Arco Renz

Coproduction VIERNULVIER (BE), BIT Teatergarasjen (NO), HAU Hebbel Am Ufer (DE), beursschouwburg (BE), STUK (BE), WpZimmer & C-TAKT (BE), Theater Rotterdam (NL)

Supported by Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie Residencies Emerging Islands

Acknowledgement Talaandig-Manobo community and Kulahi in Bukidnon

The text includes translations by Christian Jil Benitez, Rica Paras & Macky Torrechilla.

 Joshua Serafin (they/she) is a multi-disciplinary artist who combines dance, performance, visual arts, and choreography. Born in the Philippines in 1995, they are currently based in Brussels. They are a house artist of Viernulvier for the season 2023-2027. After graduating from the Hong Kong Academy and P.A.R.T.S., Vorst, Joshua received a Bachelor’s in Performance in 2021 and a Master’s in Fine Arts in 2022 from KASK, where they were the recipient of the Horlait-Dapsens Prize. They premiered their first solo work “Miss” in VIERNULVIER and have since collaborated with multiple artists in Asia and Europe. Their work has been shown internationally, most notably in Esplanade in Singapore, BIT Teatergarasjen, Norway; Anti Festival, Finland; Nightshift, Ostende; Beursschowburg, Brussels; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; TONO Festival, Mexico City; and Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin. They were an official participant in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa. 

Joshua’s artistic process is an intense sociological exorcism of Filipino identity about global ideologies and contemporary phenomena, unpacking the historical violence of its feudal contemporary society and its dehumanizing normality. Joshua’s globally acclaimed performance is committed to dwelling within interstitial spaces, a refusal to participate in dimorphic structures so they can craft an idiom where they can speak from in-betweenness and translate ideas of alterity into forms of speculation.