This is what I wanna SEA!

Music and Performances

This is What I Wanna SEA!

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This is What I Want to SEA! is a digital lecture offering a glimpse into the thriving underground Ballroom scenes across Southeast Asia. Originating as a Black and Brown queer movement in New York City, Ballroom culture has gained global visibility while adapting uniquely to Southeast Asian contexts. The lecture highlights regional trailblazers in the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, showcasing the growth of Ballroom in these countries. Using the lens of "disidentification," it examines how Ballroom aesthetics challenge cis-heteronormative norms through gender performance, beauty reclamation, and alternative kinship structures. The lecture is accompanied by a dance film featuring regional collaborators.
Southeast Asian Ballroom Contributors: This project would not be possible without the contributions of the following individuals: Father Aurora Sun Labeija (Thailand), Yujene Versace 007 (Thailand), Sang Danya Kans 007 (Indonesia), Minerva Sun Mizrahi (Vietnam), Kimmy Kuntysha 007 (Malaysia), Jeyah 007 (Malaysia), Yansin Kasicunt 007 (Malaysia), Natasha Neverland 007 (Malaysia), Amin 007 (Singapore), Jaja Dirty Revlon 007 (Philippines), Mother Xyza Pinklady Mizrahi (Philippines), and anyone who has documented various functions in Southeast Asia, archiving our Ballroom histories.
Artist

Juneau

Singapore

JUNEAU (she/her) draws on her practice as an artist-curator-researcher and her emerging life in the Ballroom scene to investigate cultural and gender identities (borrowed/imposed/reclaimed) and their fluxness. Drawing heavily on pop culture, music, critical theory and philosophy, JUNEAU's practice currently works to complicate and constellate seemingly disparate ideas through the mediums of movement, text, language via experimental and collaborative approaches. 

Artist

Kiki HQ

Singapore

KikiHQ is a Singapore-based collective working to provide avenues for Singaporean youths interested in Ballroom culture to learn more about it and pick up the skills and basic knowledge to begin their Ballroom journey. Father Irzie Kasicunt 007 (he/him) and Parent Nagfa Sun 007 (she/they) of KikiHQ have been instrumental in developing this Digital Lecture project, having been plugged into the regional Ballroom scene in its early year.

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