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Joshua Serafin

Void
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  • Thu 11.12
    20:00 - 20:45
    Club Wintercircus, Gent
    Past event
  • Fri 12.12
    20:00 - 20:45
    Club Wintercircus, Gent
    Past event

Time for a new queer creation story

'Void' is a conversation between performer Joshua Serafin and musicians Calvin Carrier and Alex Zhang Hungtai. In the performance, we see the god(dess) Void on an island installation blending into its environment. Two light pillars that extend to the sky create a portal that connects the spiritual and mortal realms. 'Void' converses with the soundscape and the ecological and meta-realm landscape surrounding them. Their dance creates a ritual of birth, and rebirth, collecting global sadness and its beauty. It is an embodiment of our current society.

Embodied movement and choreography express the pain and struggle that the genderless deity VOID receives and collects. Personified by Joshua Serafin, they propose a new speculative cosmology based on the spiritual and colonial history of the Philippines and their own personal biography, and shift into an embodied narrator of survival. For Serafin, the creation of these new possibilities via ritual become corporeally intrinsic to healing both individual and collective trauma. Bodily carnality, anthropomorphised in VOID, becomes the new deity of the decolonised imaginary, and mimics the antagonisms and tensions present in current society. On their island surrounded by smoke and light pillars connecting mortal and spiritual realms complemented by a soundscape by musicians Calvin Carrier and Alex Zhang Hungtai, VOID performs their ritual in the midst of darkness and tension to transform pain into beauty, dirt and debris into their final form: pearls.

Unique immersive version of 'Void' for the setting in Club Wintercircus!

Trigger warnings?
  • Strobe lighting is used
  • There are sudden and loud noises or sound sensitivity triggers
    (e.g. alarms, repetitive sounds,..)
  • Smoke effects are used

"In the unique architecture of Club Wintercircus, this show will be EPIC"

- Eva Neklyaeva, programmer performing arts
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Credits

Performance / Choreography / Scenography: Joshua Serafin - Musicians: Calvin Carrier and Alex Zhang Hungtai - Sound Design: Alex Zhang Hungtai and Luis Miguel Munoz - Voice: Lukresia Quismundo and Joshua Serafin - Technical management: Ivan Cascon

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