In her performance To Be Humble, artist Chantal Fraser invites you to take part in a mass act of artistic, social, and cultural penance. For this First Thursdays experience, she draws on the Samoan ritual tradition of ifoga, which is a ceremonial practice of forgiveness.
Fraser uses material culture and adornment in her installations, performances, and digital media works. Her interdisciplinary practice investigates cross-cultural representations and neo-colonialism within the form of cultural adornment.
Join Fraser alongside Pacific contemporary artists Ann Fuata, Dulcie Stewart, and young storyteller and performer Gerick Leota Thomsen, as they share their reflections and experiences of penance through moving image, storytelling, and performance.
This is a free event, with all welcome. Register your place on Eventbrite here.
Biographies
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Chantal Fraser is a Brisbane-based artist. Her practice explores ornamentation as an aesthetic resolution to identity and individuality. Fraser has exhibited nationally at various institutions such as QAGOMA, Brisbane; Artbank, Sydney; QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; UQ Art Museum, Brisbane; and Brisbane City Hall (now Museum of Brisbane), Brisbane. Fraser has also been included in exhibitions internationally at institutions such as La Cité internationale des Arts, Paris; Les Brassieres in Belgium; and Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia.
Ann Fuata is a Melbourne process-based artist and writer, who grew up in Logan, Queensland and works between the mediums of performance and sculpture. Her practice is informed by themes of temporality, the human psyche, and place.
Born in Apia, Samoa and now based in Brisbane, Gerick Leota Thomsen, is an emerging actor and performer currently undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) at the Queensland University of Technology. Thomsen was recently featured in the lead role of the QUT production Enemies.
Dulcie Stewart was born in Suva, Fiji. A library technician by profession, Dulcie is also an artist, blogger, and family historian specialising in Fiji research, covering European contact prior to cession (1800-1874).
