VOID MYTH MAKERS
Tai Kwun Contemporary and Sunpride Foundation present a captivating evening of performances by the artists Joshua Serafin. Through dance, the artists connect personal and community histories with pre-colonial folklore, gender non-binary traditions, and queer ancient mythologies.
Using ritualistic dance to invoke the coming-to-life of the Goddess Void, Joshua Serafin sheds the normative ideals of gender and colonial history, engaging in a process of healing from generational trauma that enables the artist to locate their ancestral historical body, a fluid non-binary form. Through this dance, the artist hopes to find a neutral form in which their existence would heal and liberate itself—from the pain of traumas, structures of heteronormative ideals in society, and binary structures implemented by its colonisers.
Through the portals they open into fundamentally queer cosmological systems, these Myth Maker performances during the 2023 Art Basel Hong Kong week will test the limits of our current knowledge systems and imaginations, opening up space for re-readings and new vocabularies.
-Original text from: Art After Hours Myth Makers Performance