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To our community in downtown Hilo, Hawaii. Please be sure to check out our group exhibition at East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center. Tides: Gender Beyond the Binary in Oceania December 6th 2025 - February 27th, 2026 Opening December 5th at 6 pm East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center www.ehcc.org/content/tide...

For all our new followers curious about the collective. Here's a short 'In The Studio' video profiling the work of the collective for our recent international commission - The Fale Sā / Sacred House. youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...

Auckland can feel extremely insular sometimes. Specifically in the arts that have clear class systems in place. But as Pasifika people from the Diaspora we also understand our earliest immigrants to NZ helped build this city and make it what it is today.

Our Bodies Are Memories of Our Bodies (2025) installation of abstractions and poems at Pieam in Long Beach California now through February 2026.

After two years of back to back international touring, we officially opened our studio in May of 2024. We moved in on January 1st but it took four months of renovations to get the space fit for purpose. May 2026 is officially the two year mark. We think we need to do something to celebrate?

First day back at the Studio for 2026. Shooting a family portrait for a family of 12. Love that Polynesian families are so large and inviting. Remember if you want your family portraits taken. We're the studio to do it this summer. So don't hesitate to hit us up. Xx

Hi to all our recent followers. Looking forward sharing our journey with yall in 2026. We will be following you all back. Thanks xx FAFSWAG Image: Pati Tyrell & Jaimie Waititi

Also available at our online store are works from Samoan photographer and lens based performance artist Pati Tyrell. Collaborations between Takatāpui artists Māhia Tekore and Jaimie Waititi. And works by Moe Laga from the House of Coven Aucoin. Something for everyone. www.fafswag.nz/mketi/art-pr...

Happy 2026 to our global and local community. Hope you're all enjoying the festive season. We have some exciting announcements this year. We're looking forward to sharing with yall soon. If your in AKL, hope yall are enjoying this amazing sun. xx FAFSWAG

Thank you everyone that supported our artists and purchased a limited edition print from us. Now that we’re back in AKL, these prints will be going out this week. We still have a few left if you want to grab one for your fale / space. Don’t be shy, check out the link in our bio. Alofa x FAFSWAG

Biba FAFSWAG, Tanu, and Moe!! 🤩🤩 #Pasifika creativity in action 💙

Congratulations 👏🏽🎉 to FAFSWAG artists Tanu Gago & Moe Laga on becoming round2 recipients for the New Zealand Writers Guild SEED Grants 2025. We're happy to see your feature film 'Shopping for Bullets' get the support it deserves! Can't wait to see what this dynamic writing and directing duo create.

After premiering at Sundance in 2022, our AR sculpture entitled ATUA was presented across four different time zones in 2023. We love thinking about the digital portals we opened to our ancestors at the time. Looking forward to finding permanent home for ATUA in 2026.

I’m a human being with feelings, not a robot or AI

Ei Katu - A3 Art Print - "Ei Katu" is 1 of 4 limited edition photographic prints. Created as a digital illustration by FAFSWAG artist Tanu Gago. www.fafswag.nz/mketi/p/limi...

Reclamation 2019: Elyssia Wilson Heti, producer in residence for Basement Theatre.

Oh mah gawddd!! This!!

It's been seven years since we made this reel. Say whatever you like, but we're still breaking the veil between the lies of colonialism, and what it means to navigate our practice in an industry of exploitation and colonial extraction. Facts are facts. www.artspace.org.au/publishing/5...

While you've got the family together for the holidays. FAFSWAG artist Pati Tyrell is offering a holiday special for family portraits. Message us for details on how you can book in a session with our renowned portrait photographer. Happy Holidays y'all.

Reclaiming our story from the cultural distortion of colonisers. This thread will eventually show the timeline of events. FAFSWAG producer Elyssia Wilson Heti is preparing the podcast episode which will run concurrently with these social posts.

It's time.

Thank you. Indigenous stories deserve better. xx

😍🤩 such beautiful Queer loving art

Taro Patch - A3 Art Print - "Taro Patch" is 1 of 4 limited edition photographic prints. Created as a digital illustration by FAFSWAG artist Tanu Gago (BUGANZ83). www.fafswag.nz/mketi/p/limi...

FAFSWAG Artist Tanu Gago, currently has some new art works for sale ahead of christmas. Part of a four-part series, check out these vibrant limited edition A3 Photographic Prints for $65.00 NZD. Be sure to get in quickly, as the artists has only produced 10 of each. www.fafswag.nz/mketi/illust...

Selling some prints if you like... www.fafswag.nz/mketi/illust...

FAFSWAG Artist Tanu Gago, currently has some new art works for sale ahead of christmas. Part of a four-part series dedicated to exploring and celebrating the grace, and often-overlooked tenderness of modern Queer Pacific male identity. www.fafswag.nz/mketi/illust...

We have a loathsome relationship with media. Sometimes journalist will take up so much of ur time, and it won't even lead to anything. In 2022 we did a 2hour interview with VOGUE Magazine, inside a junket that had us in interviews with foreign press all day, to end up a quote in the overall piece.

I think it's telling that this film has been buried by the collective, since our awful experience in Germany at Documenta15. This film now lives in an unmarked grave thanks to the trauma of surviving a horrific encounter with the German government, and our shit hosts at the festival. Fuck DOCUMENTA!

'Diaspora Rendered' is a collection of short experimental films and moving image art works from FAFSWAG artists, currently screening as part of TIDES: Gender Beyond the Binary in Oceania - Exhibition at Estside Cultural Centre in Oahu in Hawai'i. Curated by Andrzej Kramars ehcc.org/content/tide...

FAGMOB by COVEN collective for TAPAC's Short and Sweet Choreo Labs in 2018. We showed this in London at VFD - the city's only Queer Indigenous club as part of our Paris / London tour the same year. Love this video, cinematography by Ralph Brown, Styling by Jasper Powell. Concept by House of COVEN.

According to google: FAFSWAG is a Queer Indigenous arts collective from South Auckland, Aotearoa, known for creating impactful, multidisciplinary art exploring identity through a Māori and Pacific lens. Mostly accurate, but missing our voices which you can catch here: youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...

We released this beautiful catalogue of our collective practice after a decade of collaboration in 2023. You can pick one up here. www.fafswag.nz/mketi/public...

It's an incredible text, one of my favourite to teach! Grateful for your incredible mahi and for making your work so accessible 💙🩵💜

This is the whole team that helped us develop and deliver the Fale Sā / Sacred House over two years of international collaboration. With artists based in Auckland NZ, Manchester & London, New York, Sydney & Melbourne Australia, and Apia Samoa.

5 out of 10 of our members speak their native indigenous languages. 3 out of 10 of our artists have Samoan Chief titles. Our collective is made up of artists & community leaders from Aotearoa, Samoa, Tonga, Niue and the Cook Islands. Our artists identify as Takatāpui, Fa'afafine, Akavaine and Trans.

Last show for the year - TIDES: Gender Beyond the Binary In Oceania at East Hawai'i Cultural Centre. Fafswag, Connie M. Florez, Adriana Māhanga Lear, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, and Peter Waples- Crowe. Running from December 6th 2025 - February 27th, 2026. Image Credit: Pacific Bizarre 2019 - FAFSWAG

Thanks for sharing our interactive docu-series with audiences. We're super proud of it. It has definitely stood the test of time. It still looks like it was created yesterday 😊☺️❤️🙏🏽

Third (and final) conference presentation for November this afternoon. I'll be talking briefly about the incredible (and interactive!!) FAFSWAG Vogue documentary. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, it's free to access here: fafswagvogue.com

'Tulouna Le Lagi' by Pati Tyrell, commissioned by Circuit NZ in 2022 is now screening as part of our collection of art films entitled Diaspora Rendered. As part of the final exhibition for the year entitled TIDES: Gender Beyond The Binary in Oceania. At the Eastside Cultural Center in Hawaii.

Instal pics for our show TIDES: Gender Beyond The Binary in Oceania, at the Eastside Cultural Center in Hawaii. Curated by Andrzej Kramarz. Opening tomorrow night. Please go check it out if you're in the region. Take pics and let us know your thoughts. Xx FAFSWAG

So proud of this MQFF award, especially after winning the Letterboxd Pasifika Māori talent award at NZIFF in September. It just means more coming from your own community. I make films for Queer Pacific people. This film is for Queer brown boys from South Auckland. Y'all have my heart for real. ❤️🏆

FAFSWAG @fafswag.nz Queer Pacific Art in Aotearoa: Tanu Gago | Video Essay youtu.be/C8jEJfX1RIs?...

TIDES is my last exhibition for the year. Still very gutted we couldn't make it to Hawai'i for the opening, but if you're in the area, please go check it out. If you know any queers on the island please let them know. It's a beautiful show with a powerful message for Oceania folks. x Tanu & Pati.

No tea no shade. It is what it is. Just for clarity, every dollar went towards sustainability building. We wouldn't be here without the strategic investment. And that's on period!! So shout-out to the 2024 CNZ assessors for that.

With love and deep condolences to all your loved ones. You will be eternally missed Aunty, Jennifer Lal. Thank you for your incredible contribution to the arts in Aotearoa. Live arts will not be the same without you. x Rest in Love. xx FAFSWAG aiga.

Last show for the year - TIDES: Gender Beyond the Binary In Oceania at East Hawai'i Cultural Centre. Fafswag, Connie M. Florez, Adriana Māhanga Lear, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, and Peter Waples- Crowe. Running from December 6th 2025 - February 27th, 2026. Image Credit: Pacific Bizarre 2019 - FAFSWAG

This year we had a Work-In-Progress-Sharing of Pati Tyrell's new ceremonial work SAUNIGA, at Arts Centre Melbourne. It's been a big Year for FAFSWAG in Melbourne. One of our international producer's Elyssia Wilson-Heti is now currently based there full time. Keen to see more of Naarm in the future.

Tea Break Tales is casting their next campaign. Get in touch if you have a story to tell. It's a paid opportunity for successful applicants. Details in the Image. Get it your life!!!