Ex Nilalang: From Creature ~ From Creation (Ep.4)

Club Ate (Justin Shoulder & Bhenji Ra)
2017
Australia
14 min

Barbican Centre

22 May

Sunday

6:00pm

Ex Nilalang by collective Club Ate (Justin Shoulder & Bhenji Ra) is a body of work that uses myth as a form to explore the intersections of queer identities of the Filipino diaspora.  Nilalang has a hybrid meaning ‘to create’ and also meaning ‘creature’ — This emphasizes the nature of the work being both a transformation of existing mythologies and also the imagining of future folklore.

Club Ate (Justin Shoulder & Bhenji Ra)

Club Ate is a collective formed in 2014 by multi-form artists Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra. Their practice traverses video, performance and club events with an emphasis on community activation. Collaborating with members of the queer Asia Pacific diaspora in Australia and the Philippines, the collective are invested in creating their own Future Folklore: a language that merges ancient knowledge with contemporary practice.