Joshua Serafin is a multi-disciplinary artist who combines dance, performance, visual arts, and choreography. Born in the Philippines, they are currently based in Brussels. They are also a house artist of Viernulvier from season 2023-2027.
Josh is a graduate of Philippine High School for the Arts where they majored in Theatre Arts. They studied at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts majoring in contemporary dance. Graduated from P.A.R.T.S. in 2019, and gained their Bachelors in Performance from KASK in 2021, and recently graduated from their Masters in Fine Arts in Visual Arts in KASK School of the Arts in 2022 with great distinction and their master’s work has won the award Horliet-Dapsens Prij 2022.
They have collaborated with multiple artists in Asia and Europe ranging from performance to visual arts such as Arco Renz, Eisa Jocson, Manuel Pelmus, Bruno Isacovi?, Ming Wong, Adrian Wong, Choy Ka Fai, Leeroy New, Korakrit Arunanondchai, TG Stan company, Damien Jalet, and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and so forth. They have presented their work at different festivals such as Deltebre Dansa in Spain, Queer Zagreb in Croatia, Centre National de la Danse in Paris, Wing Platform Hong Kong, Bouge B Festival in deSingel, Meteor Festival in Bergen, Norway, Nightshift in Ostende. They have premiered their first solo work titled “Miss” in Viernulvier and currently touring.
Josh's works deal with questions about identity, transmigration, queer politics and representation, states of being, and ways of inhabiting the body. They are currently developing a cosmology of works that create new forms of rituals, and embodiment, based on queer ecologies. They are interested in the duality between the physical form and its representation manifested through the alter identity he created called “Void”.