Luna Beller-Tadiar is a Manila-born, NYC-raised, queer, mixed-Filipinx multi-media artist who works in choreography, video, text, and comics. Her practice takes (postcolonial) mimicry as method for transformation and knowledge; her work across media excavates a body language made up of fragments—remnants of lands, communities, and machines. Luna draws on a movement education that includes Argentine tango, Aikido, capoeira, and contemporary dance; she also draws on her ongoing PhD work in dance and media studies.

For the Puón institute, she will present her current work-in-progress, a performance solo with the working title “Mercury,” in which a mercurial body mimics, re-members, puns, and glitches its way between bodily states, disaggregating a subject, and re-spinning worlds from their traces.