“bahay kubo”
Rayleen Forester
28 Oct → 21 Nov 2023
Performance lecture, 28 Oct, 5 – 5:30 am
West Space presents bahay kubo by Tarntanya/Adelaide based artist Rayleen Forester in the West Space Window.
bahay kubo is a performance lecture and text-based installation examining filipinx diaspora language, cultural heritage and migrant labour. Based on a children's folk song about bamboo stilt houses indigenous to the Philippines bahay kubo touches on cultural embodiment, hereditary responsibility and our nuanced relationship with colonised lands.
As part of a series of personally led, public interventions bahay kubo is the second iteration of gatherings for filipinx diaspora community and allies to connect and participate through performance and writing.
bahay kubo: Written and performed by Rayleen Forester
Utang na Loob: Written and performed by Beatrice Rubio-Gabriel
Installation design: Nina Gibbes
Lectern design: Peter Fong
This project is supported by Arts South Australia. West Space Window is supported by City of Yarra and viewable during all Collingwood Yards open hours.
Rayleen Forester is an arts worker based on Kaurna Country. Rayleen’s curatorial interests focus on cross-cultural engagement and outcomes through experimental curation and programming, performance and writing. Rayleen has worked for major international biennales and art galleries in both Europe and Asia including MANIFESTA9 (Belgium) and MEM (Japan). She co-curated the long-established Artists’ Week symposium with Lars Bang Larsen (Denmark) and Richard Grayson (UK) for the 2014 Adelaide Festival. She has written for exhibition catalogues and publications including UNmagazine, Artlink and Broadsheet journal. She is a founding member of South Australian initiatives FELTspace, fine print and is currently Associate Curator at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.