FAFSWAG
FAFSWAG is a Moana Oceanic arts collective founded in Aotearoa in 2013. They aim to challenge the lack of representation of Queer and Indigenous people in the creative industries by evading heteronormativity and establishing multicultural identities and an interdisciplinary practice.
Operating across a multitude of art forms and genres, FAFSWAG’s artists work collaboratively to activate public and digital space. They celebrate Queer Brown bodies, contemporary Pacific arts, and cultural restoration. Their online platform documents in an artistic manner the cultural connectivity of Queer Pacific People of Color navigating their unique identities within New Zealand’s urban landscapes. The collective develops site specific cultural experiences and arts engagements that speak to their unique and diverse contexts as LGBTQ people from Oceania.
FAFSWAG have presented and exhibited extensively within Aotearoa New Zealand including Auckland Art Gallery, the Auckland War memorial Museum, ARTSPACE NZ, COCA Centre of Contemporary Arts Christchurch, and are the 2017 Company in residence at Basement Theatre and the winners of the 2017 Auckland Theatre Award for best overall work. Furthermore, FAFSWAG’s work has been shown worldwide, among them at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2018) and HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2020). In 2020, FAFSWAG received the Arts Foundation Laureate Award for Interdisciplinary Arts and represented New Zealand at the 22nd Sydney Biennale.
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