Bea Rubio-Gabriel is a performance artist, writer, and curator born in the Philippines, now based in Naarm/Melbourne. They explore the endangered Baybayin script in how it can be activated as a gateway to rebuild cultural connections through performance, and approach writing as artform and ephemera. Their research focuses on the politics of translation, pre-colonial writing systems (namely, Baybayin), and Indigenous (Ifugao) knowledge systems of the Philippines and how this may create a rupture within colonial systems and narratives, and resurrect cultures and stories once thought to be lost.