FAFSWAG
@fafswag.nz
Critically acclaimed NZ Arts Laureates & Queer Indigenous, Interdisciplinary Arts Collective from the Moana. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau - SOUTH AKL
IG | @FAFSWAG
ARCHIVE | https://www.fafswag.nz/
INTERACTIVE | https://fafswagvogue.com/
IG | @FAFSWAG
ARCHIVE | https://www.fafswag.nz/
INTERACTIVE | https://fafswagvogue.com/
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FAFSWAG
@fafswag.nz
· Nov 4
Go behind the scenes with acclaimed Arts Collective FAFSWAG, 🤩 We give you an exclusive look at our collaborative practice and the development of our powerful new work, FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE, for the Manchester International Festival 2025 (MIF25).
Full video on YouTube
youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...
Full video on YouTube
youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...
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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.
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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.
December 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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.
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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.
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I’m a human being with feelings, not a robot or AI
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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...
www.fafswag.nz/mketi/p/limi...
December 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...
www.fafswag.nz/mketi/p/limi...
Reclamation 2019: Elyssia Wilson Heti, producer in residence for Basement Theatre.
December 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Reclamation 2019: Elyssia Wilson Heti, producer in residence for Basement Theatre.
Oh mah gawddd!! This!!
December 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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...
www.artspace.org.au/publishing/5...
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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...
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.
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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.
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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.
It's been 3 years since this happened to us and I'm glad the collective is now healed enough to finally talk about it in the public domain. 2026 needs to be the year of truth about the arts, and the ways it continues to willfully harm Indigenous artists. It's fucked.
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
It's time.
Thank you. Indigenous stories deserve better. xx
Im so proud of you 🙏🏾
December 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Thank you. Indigenous stories deserve better. xx
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😍🤩 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...
www.fafswag.nz/mketi/p/limi...
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
😍🤩 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...
www.fafswag.nz/mketi/p/limi...
December 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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...
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...
www.fafswag.nz/mketi/illust...
December 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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...
www.fafswag.nz/mketi/illust...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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...
www.fafswag.nz/mketi/illust...
ILLUSTRATIONS — Limited Edition - Illustrated A3 Art Prints | Buganz83 — FAFSWAG
www.fafswag.nz
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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...
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.
December 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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!
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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
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ehcc.org/content/tide...
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
'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...
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.
December 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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?...
Mostly accurate, but missing our voices which you can catch here:
youtu.be/QtwaUs16nok?...
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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?...
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...
www.fafswag.nz/mketi/public...
December 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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...
www.fafswag.nz/mketi/public...
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It's an incredible text, one of my favourite to teach! Grateful for your incredible mahi and for making your work so accessible 💙🩵💜
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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.
December 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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.