Vargas Museum to Spotlight Transfeminine Artist Bunny Cadag

The halls of UP Diliman’s Vargas Museum are about to get a much-needed burst of color and radical honesty. On July 19, the always-latest museum will host The Singer, a work-in-progress performance by none other than Bunny Cadag, one of Manila’s most exciting transfeminine artists. For fans of queer Filipino brilliance and performance that dares to strut outside all the boxes, it’s an unmissable date, think less “standard exhibit opening,” more sparkling creative communion.SNEAK PEEK HERE

Transcending binaries through art

Bunny Cadag, known for their uninhibited, genre-blurring approach to art, is famed for weaving together theater, song, movement, and ritual. Their practice sits at the bold intersections of gender, performance, and lived Filipino experience. As they’ve shown in previous works across Asia and Europe, this is an artist who understands that to be queer and Filipino is to be both a witness and a world-builder, a storyteller who uses their whole body as a canvas.ABOUT BUNNY CADAG

The Singer: more than a performance

If the teaser photos and hush-hush social media hints are anything to go by, The Singer won’t be your standard one-and-done show. Expect soul-baring vocals, experimental choreography, and fragments of personal history sewn together with wit and heartbreak. According to Vargas Museum’s Instagram announcement, Cadag will transform the basement space into “a living archive of transfeminine expression in Manila”, which, if you ask this culture columnist, sounds like an artistic sanctuary for anyone who’s ever wanted to feel seen inside and out.OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Celebrating queer Filipino visionaries

Cadag’s rise echoes a growing embrace of Filipino nonbinary and transfeminine voices in the art world, building on legacies laid by earlier queer icons. Their collaborations with trailblazers like Eisa Jocson explore the politics of embodiment and the realities of Filipino identity, no small feat given a conservative mainstream culture that often pushes such stories to the sidelines.QUEER ART CONTEXT

Artie’s Picks

Looking for a active escape from the day-to-day? Add July 19 to your calendar. Come for Cadag’s razor-sharp vulnerability, stay for the buzz of a growing queer art scene that refuses to apologize. Let’s show up, mga ka-bekis, after all, visibility is its own revolution. See you at Vargas!