“A woman who sews her pain is the same woman who sings about her freedom.”
In her first full-length solo, multidisciplinary trans artist Bunny Cadag creates a moving experiential space that is a cradle and refuge, but also a repository for experiences of violence, loneliness and exclusion. As “The Singer”, Cadag herself intones the intergenerational trauma that interweaves female truths. At the same time, she tells of the genealogies of healing that are embodied in the repertoire of female-connoted arts such as sewing. In doing so, she moves between parable and ritual. Sometimes shaman and sorceress, sometimes mother, grandmother, daughter, sometimes widow, angel or bride – to the rhythm of needle and thread, Cadag sings the praises of queer memory and creates a haunting appeal for unconditional acceptance and care.
Infos
- Age: From 16 years
- Duration: 55 min.
- Language: no language (greeting in English)
- addresses trauma and violence
- Mousonturm Coproduction
- 25.9., 19.30 Warm-up, karaoke party afterwards
- 26.9. discussion afterwards
Accessibility
Accessibility of Location
Sponsors and Supporters
Concept, stage design, choreography & performance: Bunny Cadag
Production management: Micah Sofia Pinto
Text & dramaturgy: Jaya Jacobo
Dramaturgy: Rasa Alksnyte
Sound design: Teresa Barrozo
A co-production as part of “Sincerely Yours, the Philippines,” a project by Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Philippines. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation through the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Supported by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, the Goethe-Institut, and “Philippines – Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025.” Supported by Tai Kwun Contemporary, Gravity Art Space, Dance Nucleus, Stanica Station, KC Magacin, Indonesian Dance Festival, Para Site, Hart Haus, Bethune House-Hong Kong, Para Sa Sining, and University of the East-Caloocan Fine Arts Department, Cascades School-Likha Village, Langgam Performance Troupe, Linangan Art Residency, Orange Project, Silingan Coffee-Cubao Expo, Resbak Artists, Concerned Artists of the Philippines, UP Vargas Museum.
Biography
Bunny Cadag is an artist creating at the nexus between craftwork and performance art; within the tensions and transitions between theatre, film as well as installation; and through the voice as a fundamental site of creative resistance and poetic reexistence. Her practice is anchored in indigenous gender diversity and contemporary gender equality and shared through a trans approach to healing and song alongside which she nurtures a decolonial composure toward folklore and tradition. Cadag’s performances are often participatory and community-based, amplifying voices of the marginalised while thoughtfully navigating defamiliarised shapes and spaces with compassion and generosity.
Cadag was one of the recipients of “Para Site’s 2021 No-Exit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour – Philippines”. Her work “Munimuni (Muse)” was part of the exhibition at Tai Kwun Contemporary (Myth Makers-Spectrosynthesis III) in Hong Kong from December 2022 to April 2023. Her works have been part of a group exhibition entitled “Object Orientations” at Gravity Art Space in Manila, 2023. She finished a Certificate Programme for Critical Practice in Contemporary Performance under Dance Nucleus in Singapore. Cadag lives in and works from Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines.