Buddy

We made it on The Philippine Times 😭🇵🇭 Cousins, titas and lola’s are reposting on Fb so I thought I’d share on here 🥹 If you haven’t got your ticket yet, it would mean everything to me and the whole team to have your support! This really is my first full-length work and first programmed work - a major milestone in my creative journey! Something I’m very nervous about but super excited to share !! 🗓️Nov 19 - 29 | Metro Arts 📍New Benner Theatre LINK IN BIO 💌 Just a young Bukidnon boy with a dream 🚀

hi musta?! it’s been a while 🫣 🌾BAHALA/O (Nov 19 - 29) 🌾 The Premiere Season presented by @metroarts !! 8 shows. Lots of rice. Even more Bahala na energy. | Tickets are selling - BOOK NOW (via link in bio) - it’s going to sell-out 🔮| after being offline this year — travelling, creating, understanding, feeling everything and nothing all at once — I’m back and finally ready to share what’s been quietly growing behind the scenes 🍚 Creating with the most incredible team !! Performer / Collaborator - @claredark Dramaturg - @liesel_zink Composer - @_ellll_ Light Designer / Operator - @briiixnx Stage Manager - @petrialeong Costume Design - @aeronmaevin Documentation - @gdocs.co + collaborating with so many amazing creatives, communities and dance makers!! The biggest (and proudest!) work of mine to date!! Feeling so lucky and grateful to be bringing Bahala/o to life alongside an incredible cohort of artists at Metro Arts. And um… we made the front cover?? OH MY 😭✨ more soon — but for now, just know the rice is cooking 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳 *Images and Video documentation by @gdocs.co from @backbone_brisbane development. This work was supported by @studio1_bne through The Workroom Program. Creative development and showing of the work was supported through Backbone’s Funded HUB Residency. #iloverice #bahalana #metroarts2025 #comingsoon

OBSERVE - Beyond The Museum: An Expedition Expedition | In partnership with QLD Museum [highlight reel] The framework of a Museum establishes a clear distinction between ‘observer’ and ‘the observed’. Interrogating perspective, Observe is a performance artwork that questions this dynamic and gives agency to the object bodies that are positioned for the museum visitor to view one-sidedly. By recognising a similar dynamic in dance performance, we use the discipline in collaboration with visual art and fashion to invite the bodies of visitors and performers into a reciprocal dialogue of viewing. ————————————- Finally get to share some footage from the QLD museum exhibition event on June 9th. Words cannot express how grateful I am for this opportunity and I honestly can’t believe this whole experience happened. Been really trying to push my capabilities and expand my artistic practice 🥺 Super blessed to have been able to achieve this life goal and super keen for more growth 🌱 Thank you so much to everyone who came and supported Beyond The Museum! Teared up seeing the whole museum packed 😭❤️ Credits Adrian “Buddy” Malbasias: • Creative director, choreographer and performer Paean Sarkar: • Lead installation designer, visual artist curator and choreographic advisor Subashini Balakrishnan: • Lead installation technician and visual artist curator Jessie Muir: • Installation designer, visual artist curator and choreographic advisor Alisha Davenport: • Installation designer and visual artist curator Gwynneth Wise: • Choreographer and performer Vivian Hannah Ho: • Administration, videographer and choreographic advisor Isabelle Negrillo: • Administration, videographer and choreographic advisor Fashion design and curation by @aeronmaevin

“The Crackles of Silence” A performance art by Buddy Malbasias and Yori Papilaya, responding to Alessio Ceruti’s work. ArtSociates at Lawangwangi Dago Giri 99 Bandung Friday, 15 May 2026, 4 pm Buddy Malbasias and Yori Papilaya perform the experience of slowness and introspection through their interpretation of Alessio’s work duality. Questioning if contrasting values can move in tandem, through movements. Like Alessio’s body of work, this performance can be interpreted freely, felt deeply, no rush. Buddy Malbasias is a Filipino-Australian (Bukidnon-born) independent artist-researcher, director, choreographer and performer, working at the intersection of contemporary performance, w_acking and interdisciplinary experimentation. Rooted in the Filipino diaspora, Buddy’s practice traverses cultural hybridity, queer identity and imaginative world-building, serving as conduits for interrogating and reimagining the ‘immigrant Filipino’ body. Yori Papilaya is a queer Indonesian writer and performance artist based in Bandung whose practice centers on vulnerability, repetition, and the emotional traces left by the body. Blending performance, language, and ritual, Yori’s works explore questions of visibility, survival, and emotional labor; especially within queer and care-driven spaces. Alessio Ceruti (born 1980 in Varese, Italy) combines image-making with material exploration. Working from underwater photographic and video references, he reprocesses images through layered interventions that blur the line between documentation and imagination. A diver and avid ocean enthusiast, Ceruti draws on his long engagement with the depths to produce a body of work that drifts across the scientific and the poetic: familiar, yet quietly strange. His oceanic creatures hover at the threshold of knowledge, slipping toward abstraction, shaped as much by perception as by the mystery from which they arise. Fragments from Below presents his recent video, installation and two dimensional works that interrogate perception, ecology, and the shifting relation between humans and the natural world, inviting us to move through what is seen, and what remains withheld. Image by Georgia Haupt

AING MAUNG Kurator: Vincent Rumahloine @vincentrumahloine 🗓️9 – 30 Mei 2026 Beyond honoured to be performing alongside @mangmoel ’s iconic work 🫶🏽 Our first performance outcome from week one of the Rakarsa residency unfolded through silaturahmi, nongkrong and the beauty of bahala na 🌀 Terima kasih banyak, Bandung! I LOVE BANDUNG ❤️ Collective exhibition by: Auditama Nugraha, Azizi Al Majid, David Bakti, Dimas Budiman, Endira F Julianda, Fahira Herniman, lqbal, Meutia Afitah, Mulyana (Mang Moel), Rico Wicaksono, Sudrajat Arya Sound design by @_ellll_ Wearing @damakara.official with @yohjiyamamotoofficial Videography + documentation by @arsyaasyaa Exhibition space @creativeclove @clovehotelbandung

Happy Mother’s Day maderrr 🥹 Everything I do is made possible because of you and every step I take carries a piece of you in it. Fought through and survived through so much 🤍

Meet Rakarsa Haus artist-in-residence this May-June 2026: Buddy Malbasias is a Filipino Australian (Bukidnon-born) independent dance artist, choreographer and performer, working at the intersection of contemporary performance, w_acking and interdisciplinary collaboration. Rooted in the Filipino diaspora, his practice explores cultural hybridity, queer identity and imaginative world-building as tools to interrogate and reimagine the ‘immigrant Filipino’ body in performance. ----- The Lord Mayor's Creative Fellowships are an initiative of Brisbane City Council. Image by @gdocs.co

AING MAUNG 🎨 Pameran Kolektif oleh: Auditama Nugraha, Azizi Al Majid, David Bakti, Dimas Budiman, Endira F Julianda, Fahira Herniman, Iqbal, Meutia Afifah, Mulyana (Mang Moel), Rico Wicaksono, Sudrajat Arya 👨‍🎨 Kurator: Vincent Rumahloine 📍 Clove Hotel, Bandung 📅 9 – 30 Mei 2026 GRAND OPENING 📆Sabtu, 9 Mei 2026 ⏱️19:00 - selesai 🔓 Terbuka untuk Umum Special Performance by Buddy Malbasias @buddy260 Datang dan temukan jejak sang Maung yang berbeda. Sampai jumpa di lokasi! 🐯 #CloveHotel #AingMaung #icloveyou #bandungart

Bahala/o | Stage Buzzie Award 🐝 Best sound design (Independent production) Sound that continues to inspire me everyday To Ell, forever and always 🔒
To kuya Sherwin, budots to the world 🌎 This is yours 🤍 (sabak jud sa DJ 🤭) Creative team Director/Choreographer/Performer: Buddy Malbasias Performer/Collaborator: Clare Dark @claredark Dramaturg: Liesel Zink @liesel_zink Cultural Mentor/Consultant: Buboy Raquitico @buboynabuboy Sound Composer: ELLLL (Ellen King) @_ellll_ Contributing Sound: DJ Love (Sherwin Tuna) @djlove_sherwintuna Lighting Designer: Briana Clark @briiixnx Voice Coach: Jo Loth @jo_loth1 Stage Manager: Petria Leong @petrialeong Costume Designer: Aeron Maevin @aeronmaevin Documentation: Georgia Haupt @gdocs.co Archival footage: Nevin Howell @nevin.howell Bahala/o season premiere presented by @metroarts —— Carousel images @gdocs.co | footage @nevin.howell | graphic design and direction assist @_ashiok_

2026 Lord Mayor’s Creative Fellowship recipient
Rakarsa Foundation Residency | Bandung, Indonesia (May–June) 💌 An offering I’m deeply grateful for. Big thank you to Brisbane City Council for supporting this next chapter. In the middle of Bahala/o tech week, I took another massive leap and submitted another big application (buang jud ning bata 😭)
Big love to @maisiecrosdale_ (couldn’t have done this app. without you!!) I’ll be taking this time to deepen my practice in South-East Asia; listening, learning and growing
Planting more seeds for what’s to come 🌱🌏 Image by @gdocs.co — Bahala/o, Metro Arts season premiere Design assist by @_ashiok_ The Lord Mayor’s Creative Fellowships are an initiative of Brisbane City Council.

‘SYNAPSE’ by @chelsea_august @newresource_ and with @buddy260 has been selected for the @backbone_brisbane Hub Residency and will be performed at Backbone Festival this October! • ‘SYNAPSE’ is a new dance-theatre work with live musicians, exploring the psychophysiology of digital overwhelm, ecosystem collapse and wicked problems. Stay tuned for more info… 🧠 • 📸: @gdocs.co

Buddy Malbasias moved with his family from Bukidnon to Brisbane at the age of five, yet he continues to speak Bisaya, helping to preserve his native language. (LINK IN BIO)