Fluid Transitions, 2023
Costumes: Shone Puipia
Text and Music: Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Ego Song, Artist Song, Gynophobia
Photographer: Kanrapee Chokpaiboon
Curator and text: Vanini Belarmino, Belarmino & Partners
Fluid Transitions is a performance, that reflects on existential matters in a time of significant paradigm shifts, where chaos is vital to make a new order. Delivering a selection of original text accompanied by live and recorded music and donning an elaborate costume doubling as her set, Cuenca’s performance bears with it multiple characters that shift between an activist, a preacher, a sorcerer, a queen, queer and a wonder woman. The elaborate and intricate costumes created by Puipia consisting of four layers, serve as markers in the identity shifts. As a new character is revealed, Cuenca will be stripping them off like the Russian Babushka dolls.
Fluid Transitions is a collaborative work Thai fashion designer Shone Puipia. This project, which marries performance, visual arts and fashion, was initiated and curated by Vanini Belarmino and commissioned and premiered at the National Gallery Singapore. Toured to: ATT19 Bangkok,TH, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, Quezon City, Orange Project, Bacolod, The Philippines, Hempel Glasmuseum, Odsherred.
