July 20, 2024, 7:30 pm
316 Ten Eyck, Brooklyn New York City

The center and titular character of Joshua Serafin’s performance work VOID is a speculative deity and an oneiric alter-ego; a fluid, undefinable, primordial being who represents an ancient, ancestral body and who Joshua dances into life in a soundscape of recorded and live music performed by Alex Zhang Hungtai and Calvin Carrier.

At once an invocation, a reincarnation, and an exorcism, VOID draws on the creation myths and precolonial history of the Philippine archipelago to imagine a speculative future where the imposed ideology of colonial patriarchy gives way to more ancient, more fluid, and more liberated modes of being. Performed outdoors at dusk within a fluid scenography of smoke, light, and ectoplasmic soil, VOID proposes that the liberation of all bodies does not merely belong to a hypothetical future but is deeply rooted in precolonial modes of thought and categories of identification.

Photos by Daniel Wang