SaVĀge K’lub: Te Paepae Aora’i – Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled

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Dress rehearsal for SaVĀge K’lub: Te Paepae Aora’i – Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled opening weekend activations, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2024

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Presented alongside Gauguin's World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao, the SaVĀge K’lub is a multi-disciplinary vehicle to explore ideas of hospitality, culture and identity. SaVĀge K’lub come together to celebrate all forms of art and culture, collaborating to acti.VĀ.te people and things.

First conceived by artist and scholar Rosanna Raymond in 2010, the SaVĀge K'lub is named in reference to an historical gentleman's club first established in London in the nineteenth century. The capitalization of VĀ in the middle of the word privileges the Samoan notion of vā - relational space between people and things. Vā is one of the founding principles ensuring Moana-based creative practices and protocols are at the centre of their collective practice.

The SaVĀge K’lub have participated in large-scale research-based art projects in Australia, Aotearoa NZ, UK and Hawaii working with Queensland Museum, QAGOMA, Auckland Museum, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongawera, the Bishop Museum and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Please book a free Gallery entry ticket to gain admission to the National Gallery. We encourage you to book ahead of your visit.

Curator: Rosanna Raymond MNZM, Adjunct Senior Curator, Special Projects

Sistar S’pacific, aka Rosanna Raymond, is an innovator of the contemporary Pasifika art scene as a long-standing member of the art collective the Pacific Sisters, and the founding member of the SaVĀge K’lub. Raymond has achieved international renown for her performances, installations, body adornment, and spoken word. A published writer and poet, her works are held by museums and private collectors throughout the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In 2018 Raymond was awarded the CNZ Pacific Senior Artist acknowledging her contribution to the arts, a former Chester Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City and this year appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of her services to Pacific Arts.

Activations

Saturday 29 June 2024

Rosanna Raymond and SaVĀge K’lub performers, makers and articulators acti.VĀ.te the space at the National Gallery to mark the opening of Gauguin's World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao.

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