Brian Fuata: Experimental performance artist returns to New Zealand for his first Auckland show

Sydney-based Samoan artist Brian Fuata visited Auckland for a show at Auckland’s Sumer Gallery earlier this month.

His work, known as Intermission (seini_transmit) incorporates a diverse array of performance and communication modalities such as improvisation, oration, authentic movement and sound art.

It is also a nod to Tongan artist, song woman and orator, Seini Taumoepeau who passed away in May this year.

Fuata transformed the empty gallery into “an open repository of amassed material” for his performance.

“Each performance has its nuance or idiosyncratic, according to, you know, whatever is happening in my life,” Fuata says.

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