Over the course of her nearly five-decade practice, Judy Freya Sibayan’s interventions and performances have mobilized the human body as a means for reconfiguring the institutions of art. Sibayan, a former director of the Contemporary Art Museum of the Philippines, drew from her personal experience in dealing with such spaces. Founded in 1969, the Cultural Center of the Philippines Museum (as it was formerly known) was a bastion of modernist and international art during the Marcos dictatorship, and its first two directors, Roberto Chabet and Raymundo Albano, helped foster Sibayan’s career as an