2 November 2022
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The SaVĀge K’lub in Birmingham: ActiVĀtion, Presences and performances

Jeudi 20 septembre 2022, arrivées à Birmingham sous la pluie, nous entrons dans le Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) pour nous abriter mais surtout pour aller voir la dernière occurrence du SaVĀge K’lub, raison de notre venue. Ce K’lub a été créé à l’occasion du Fierce Festival et plus particulièrement du programme Healing Gardens of Bab (Les Jardins de la Guérison de Bab – faisant référence aux jardins suspendus de Babylone) qui “est une réponse artistique à [l’]histoire coloniale [célébrant] ce que l’Empire [britannique] a tenté (et échoué) d’éradiquer”.1 Healing Gardens of Bab est un espace de “célébration queer” où “des performances, des événements et des oeuvres d’art […] renforcent l’expression de l’homosexualité dans le monde, par le biais de spectacles joyeux et d’événements participatifs.”2 C’est au sein de cet espace que Rosanna Raymond et Jaimie Waititi présentent la SaVĀge K’lubroom inaugurale de Birmingham. Read More

25 March 2020
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Is there such a creature as “traditional culture”? *

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As explained by Sean Mallon in his now famous ‘Against Tradition’ (2010), the story began with Samoan writer Albert Wendt. While Wendt started his discussion on the word “tradition” and its use in the 1970s, the debate took a larger scope in the 1990s, as he was working on the creation of a museum - Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand – as member of the Pacific Advisory Committee. Wendt had a simple request then: to abandon the term “traditional art”1 in the future museum. But why?

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30 January 2020
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Tearing away coloniality: a "way of seeing" in between

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Je ne suis pas une fa’afafine, je ne suis pas gay, je ne suis pas transgenre, je suis juste un être humain et je suis ici pour secouer ».1

        Tuisina Ymania Brown's words at a panel entitled ''Fa'afafine Towards Decolonization''. She refers to the Western desire to categorize human beings and identities. Against this Western desire to classify and categorize, CASOAR will talk about a photographic series made by the artist Yuki Kihara. This series Fa’afafine. In the Manner of Women including three self-portraits was created in collaboration with the photographer Sean Coyle. But who is Yuki Kihara? Read More