This gaze, rooted in centuries of unauthorized anthropological study across the Moana, exoticizes our bodies and creates an emotional distance from our ancestry.
The Whānau Wall serves as a vital waypoint for FAFSWAG’s own visual and oral histories. It offers a sense of continuity to Queer communities often disconnected by biology or physiology, grounding the global Queer Indigenous diaspora displaced by migration and modernity.
We originally conceived the wall as an intervention to the organizing principles of contemporary gallery spaces, which historically decontextualize Indigenous bodies to center the colonial gaze.
Go behind the scenes with FAFSWAG, the acclaimed Queer Indigenous Arts Collective! 🤩 We give you an exclusive look at our collaborative practice and the development of our powerful new work, FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE, for the Manchester International Festival 2025 (MIF25).
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Picking Crew by @tanugago.bsky.social will be screening Inside Out Festival: Toronto this week as part of the shorts programme - Beg For It.
This collection of shorts explores the ups and downs of relationships while searching for a light at the end of the tunnel.
insideout.ca/event/id/69d...
As an installation, it evokes the cultural connective tissue linking contemporary Queer Indigenous identities to our celestial ancestors, material traditions, and familial narratives. The Whānau Wall literally translates in Te Reo Māori as ‘Family-Wall'.
Stunning!
Through it, we recontextualize our cultural experiences by centering our own narratives, bodies, and worldviews.
FAFSWAG Arts Collective
Falencie Filipo, Tanu Gago, Tapuaki Helu, Nahora Ioane, Moe Laga-Toleafoa, Māhia Te Kore, Tim Swann, Pati Tyrell, Jaimie Waititi, Elyssia Wilson-Heti
We're selling our DJI - RONIN 4D - 6K Cinema Camera yall.
DM us if you'r in Auckland NZ and interested.
SPECS: youtu.be/JMp176zy_fU?...
The Whānau Wall activates Indigenous archival practice as a living archive, expanding and contracting, responding to each location with different stories. In the Moana, a whānau wall is a familiar fixture of the Pacific home.
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The Whānau Wall activates Indigenous archival practice as a living archive, expanding and contracting, responding to each location with different stories. In the Moana, a whānau wall is a familiar fixture of the Pacific home.
