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The Figure: Being Bakla in the Art and Australia Landscape asks: To speak in a multilingual world is to make a choice: which world(s) do we choose to engage with?
This capsule of Translating the Art and Australia Landscape encompasses an expansive, collaborative project with bakla/bading/beki/agi/bayot/baccla, the local genderqueer peoples of present-day Philippines. For the bakla, Tagalog and the “national” language Filipino may bring about ambivalence. Alternatively, Swardspeak, an ever-evolving language used across the Philippine archipelago by genderfluid peoples is shared by the entire beki community, whilst Hiligaynon, Tagalog and English are not.
Working with genderqueer artists, editors and authors The Figure includes articles translated into Swardspeak by Austere Rex Gamao and Ian Rafael Ramirez, alongside video recordings of of a panel discussion and performance by Ang Mga Baklang Kanal hosted in February 2024 at the University of Philippines.
Art + Australia Editor-in-Chief: Su Baker Contact: info@artandaustralia.com Receive news from Art + Australia Art + Australia was established in 1963 by Sam Ure-Smith and in 2015 was donated to the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne by then publisher and editor Eleonora Triguboff as a gift of the ARTAND Foundation. Art + Australia acknowledges the generous support of the Dr Harold Schenberg Bequest and the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne. @Copyright 2022 Victorian College of the Arts The views expressed in Art + Australia are those of the contributing authors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. Art + Australia respects your privacy. Read our Privacy Statement. Art + Australia acknowledges that we live and work on the unceded lands of the people of the Kulin nations who have been and remain traditional owners of this land for tens of thousands of years, and acknowledge and pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. Art + Australia ISSN 1837-2422
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