11 am Care and Creativity: Trans and Queer Modalities
The festival Sincerely Yours, the Philippines explores alternative and marginalized forms of care from different perspectives. As part of the discursive program, which complements and expands the perspectives of the performance program, artists Lukresia and Justin Rivera reflect on the contingencies of care work which ground trans and queer models of creativity in the Philippines and in the Filipina/x/o diaspora in Europe.
Infos
- Language: English
- Moderation: Jaya Jacobo
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„Sincerely Yours, the Philippines“ ist ein Projekt des Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Kooperation mit dem Goethe-Institut Philippinen. Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes, gefördert von dem Beauftragten für Kultur und Medien. Gefördert durch den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, das Goethe-Institut und „Philippinen - Ehrengast der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025“.
Biographies
Lukresia also known as “thirdworlbb” is a model, performance and visual artist. Before moving to Berlin, her practice in the Philippines integrated everyday-Filipino culture into fashion through sourcing found objects, collecting ephemera such as leaves, wood, trash and other mundane objects ultimately awaiting new form. What started as a visual diary grew into a practice that opened collaborations with designers, institutions and landed her a cover for Vogue Philippines in 2023. In 2024, with Joshua Serafin and Bunny Cadag, she premiered PEARLS in Viernulvier Ghent and performed the piece as part of the closing programme for the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. She also toured the show in several institutions such as HKW Berlin, Esplanade Singapore, HAU Berlin, Beursschouwburg Brussels; all while still in fashion/visual practice involved in collaborations with Mugler, IKEA.
Justin Rivera [he/they] is a multidisciplinary world-building artist currently based in the UK. Rivera’s practice is rooted in Indigenous Futurism and Solarpunk. Through speculative narratives, textiles, ceramic and performance art, Rivera explores how myth, memory and rituals can alchemise a hopeful alternative future. He studied Fashion Design in Kingston University (2017-2021), including a year at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK). Over the past three years, he has collaborated with choreographers and performance artists across Europe and the UK — including Mandhla Ndubiwa (Austria and Germany, 2021), Kianni del Valle (Berlin Art Week, 2022), José Funnell (ICA London Live, 2023) and Mahsa Salali (Playbody, 2024 and Whitechapel Gallery, 2025). His work was recently exhibited in Vuhklaan sa Kalawakwahn at Kalawakan SpaceTime, Manila (June–July 2025), and he produced MYTO’s two-day exhibition and event at Ugly Duck, London (March 2025). MYTO is an artist-led, multidisciplinary collective exploring alternative education through music, performance, contemporary art, and club culture.
Jaya Jacobo is a trans feminist poet, scholar and theorist teaching trans and queer studies at the Department of Women and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was Postdoctoral Fellow of the Global Grace: Gender and Cultures of Equality Programme, funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation-Global Challenges Research Fund, at the University of the Philippines and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She has worked alongside travesti and transsexual women artists, scholars and community workers in Brazil, as well as with trans, queer and nonbinary Filipina/x/o performers from the Philippines and Philippine diaspora abroad. She was Founding Co-Editor of Queer Southeast Asia: A Transgressive Journal of Literary Art and Co-Editor of BKL: Bikol/Bakla, Anthology of Bikolnon Gay Trans Queer Writing. Arasahas, her debut volume of poetry in Filipino (Savage Mind, 2023; Pulso, 2025) was a Finalist for Best Book of Poetry in Filipino at the 2024 National Book Awards, and the translation in English by Christian Jil Benitez Arasahas: Poems from the Tropics (PAWA & Paloma, 2024) is a Finalist for the 2025 Lambda Award in Transgender Poetry.