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DIASPORA RENDERED
A compilation of collaborative digital works by Tanu Gago and members of FAFSWAG Arts Collective.
F.O.L.A [AKL] invites FAFSWAG founder Tanu Gago to join our curatorial team in 2023 to present a selection of his favourite digital works, projected in the festival garden during sunset hours.
Adopting cultural motifs into a digital canvas, Diaspora Rendered holds a critical perspective of what it can mean to participate in a growing displaced population of Moana dreamers, as a compilation of digital moving image works. Some were originally commissioned by CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as a newly commissioned work of the same name for F.O.L.A [AKL] 2023.
These works include, Savage In The Garden 2019 with Hohua Ropate Kurene, Tulouna Le Lagi 2022 with Pati Tyrell, Coven Aucoin - This Is Glamour 2022 - with members of Aotearoa Ballroom, House of Coven Aucoin and Stellar Pritchard, and Diaspora Rendered, created with FAFSWAG Arts Collective.
Date: Sat 18 Feb
Time: 7.30PM onwards - NEW TIME
Location: Festival Garden, Basement Theatre
Price: FREE
THE CURATOR
Tanu Gago
CURATOR/ ARTIST
Tanu Gago (He/Him) MNZM, is an interdisciplinary artist of Samoan heritage working at the intersections of digital arts, live performance, film and Queer activism. Gago is an ‘artist in development’ with Piki Films, and one of the founding members of 2020’s NZ Arts Foundation Arts Laureates - FAFSWAG; a Queer Indigenous arts collective based in Auckland, Aotearoa. Gago has collaborated with various members of FAFSWAG Arts Collective on a series of moving image works originally commissioned by Circuit Aoteaora as well as a new work entitled Diaspora Rendered for F.O.L.A 2023.
WORKS INCLUDE:
Savage In The Garden, 2019, with Hohua Ropate Kurene
Tulouna Le Lagi, 2022, with Pati Tyrell
Coven Aucoin - This Is Glamour, 2022, with members of Aotearoa Ballroom, House of Coven Aucoin and Stellar Pritchard
Diaspora Rendered, created with FAFSWAG Arts Collective.
All image credits are reserved by FAFSWAG 2022
