{"id":8072,"date":"2019-04-08T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:10:40","slug":"april-11-tabita-rezaire-network-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2019\/04\/08\/april-11-tabita-rezaire-network-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"April 11 &#8211; Tabita Rezaire: Network Blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i>Tabita Rezaire in person<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8008\" style=\"width: 2550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2019\/01\/04_11_Tabita-Rezaire_Premium-Connect_2017_Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Goodman-Gallery_B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8008 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2019\/01\/04_11_Tabita-Rezaire_Premium-Connect_2017_Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Goodman-Gallery_B-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2550\" height=\"1438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2019\/01\/04_11_Tabita-Rezaire_Premium-Connect_2017_Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Goodman-Gallery_B-1.png 2550w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2019\/01\/04_11_Tabita-Rezaire_Premium-Connect_2017_Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Goodman-Gallery_B-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2019\/01\/04_11_Tabita-Rezaire_Premium-Connect_2017_Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Goodman-Gallery_B-1-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2019\/01\/04_11_Tabita-Rezaire_Premium-Connect_2017_Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Goodman-Gallery_B-1-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2019\/01\/04_11_Tabita-Rezaire_Premium-Connect_2017_Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Goodman-Gallery_B-1-1536x866.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2019\/01\/04_11_Tabita-Rezaire_Premium-Connect_2017_Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Goodman-Gallery_B-1-2048x1155.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tabita Rezaire, still from Premium Connect, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">French Guyana<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-based new media artist and energy worker Tabita Rezaire navigates power structures on and offline to pursue decolonial healing. Through performance, 3D animation, and screen interfaces, her work addresses the ongoing effects of colonialism and decenters occidental authority. She presents a trio of videos that reimagine technology, spirituality, and the erotic. The striking <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sugar Walls Teardom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2016) considers the contribution of Black womxns\u2019 wombs to the advancement of modern medical science and technology. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deep Down Tidal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2017) investigates the overlapping routes of undersea optic cables <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and colonial geography. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Premium Connect<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2017) finds connections between the organic, technological, and spiritual worlds through the exploration of African divination systems, the fungi underworld, ancestor communications, and quantum physics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016\u201317, Tabita Rezaire, South Africa, HD digital, ca 60 minutes followed by discussion <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tabita Rezaire<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cross-dimensional practice envisions network sciences<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">organic, electronic and spiritual<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as healing technologies. Inspired by quantum and cosmic mechanics, Rezaire\u2019s work is rooted in time-spaces where technology and spirituality intersect as fertile ground to nourish visions for connection and emancipation.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> She holds a Bachelor in Economics and a Master of Research in Moving Image from Central Saint Martins College (London). Rezaire is a founding member of NTU, half of the duo Malaxa, and mother of the energy house SENEB. Rezaire has shown her work internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; National Gallery Denmark, Copenhagen; Tate Modern, London; Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles; as well as the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Guangzhou Triennial; Athens Biennale; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Performa, New York; Karachi Biennale; and Berlin Biennale.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabita Rezaire in person French Guyana-based new media artist and energy worker Tabita Rezaire navigates power structures on and offline to pursue decolonial healing. Through performance, 3D animation, and screen interfaces, her work addresses the ongoing effects of colonialism and decenters occidental authority. 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