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Tabita Rezaire (born 1989, Paris) is a French contemporary artist and energy worker of Guyanese and Danish descent[1] based in Cayenne, French Guiana. Tabita's work explores information and communication technologies and their political and spiritual entanglements. Her practice gained public attention with her online manifesto 'Afro Cyber Resistance' which denounces the web as a colonised space, and urges us to decolonize our technologies.

Biography

Tabita Rezaire was born in Paris in 1989. She received her Bachelor in Economics in 2010 from University Dauphine in Paris, during which she spent a year at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Rezaire went on to attend an art foundation course at Central Saint Martins in London, and then enrolled for a Research Masters in Artist Moving Image at the same institution. She completed her MA in 2013 with her research project 'From Cruelty to Ecstasy: The Scream of Resistance in Film Performance'. After a short period in Mozambique, Tabita settled in Johannesburg South Africa, where she lived between 2014 and 2017.^[1] There she deepened her relationship with African spiritual sciences and the healing arts. She trained as a Kemetic Yoga teacher in 2015 and later as a Kundalini Yoga Teacher. Since 2018, Tabita lives and works in Cayenne, French Guiana.^[2]

Work

Tabita’s practice investigates the politics of technology, through digital, corporeal and ancestral memory. Her work tackles the pervasive matrix of coloniality – offline and online – and its effects on our body-mind-spirits. She offers a plethora of healing technologies in the form of decolonial remedies to western ideologies, drawing from her experience as a kemetic yoga teacher, visual artist, kundalini yoga teacher, and intersectional activist. Rezaire's digital art serves as a platform where technology and spirituality meet, from the perspective of African spiritual traditions and quantum and cosmic sciences against mechanisms of oppression such as racism, misogyny, homo/trans-phobias, capitalism, and western pharmaceutical systems[4]. Her practice attempt to infuse spirituality into political discourse and actions, through intimate and thorough research on sexuality, blackness, technology, the power of sound, and cosmology.^[3] She remind us to (re)connect and listen to our soul.

Her first solo exhibition "Exotic Trade" was presented at the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg in 2017. {{redacted}}

Exhibitions

Tabita has presented her work in many museums and institutions internationally, such as MoMa, NY (2018); New Museum, NY (2018); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2018); MMOMA Moscow (2018),^[4] Kunsthall Mainz, Germany (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018);^[5] Hek, Basel (2018); MAXXI, Rome (2018); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2018-2017); ICA, London (2017); V&A London (2017); National Gallery Denmark (2017); HMKV, Dortmund, Ger (2017), LUMA Westbau, Zurich (2017); The Broad LA (2016); MoCADA, NY (2016); Tate Modern, London (2015); Museum of Modern Art, Paris (2015); and participated in several Biennales such as Kochi Biennale (2018), Athens Biennale (2018),^[6] Moscow Biennale for young art (2018), Guangzhou Triennial (2018), Performa 17 (2017), Berlin Biennale 09 (2016), Karachi Biennale (2016). She has given talks and lectures at the following institutions (among others): Sesc, São Paulo (2018); FIAC, Paris (2018); Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (2018), Betonsalon, Fr (2018), Ker Thiossane, Dakar (2018) Utrecht University of Art, Netherlands (2017), Brighton Digital art Festival (2017), Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL (2016), National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe (2016), Het Nieuwe Institut, Netherlands (2016), CairoTronica, Egypt (2016), Bern Kunsthal, Switzerland (2016), Tate Modern (2015), University of Johannesburg (2015) , Fakugesi Digital Art Africa (2014).^[7]

Collaborations

Rezaire is part of the duo Malaxa with Alicia Mersy since 2013. She is a co-founder of the artist group NTU with artist Bogosi Sekhukhuni and Nolan Dennis Oswald since 2015.^[8] Since 2018 she collaborates regularly with astronomers like ASPA – the Senegalese Association For Astronomy.

Published writings by Tabita Rezaire

Publications with contributions by Tabita Rezaire: T. Rezaire (2014), Afro Cyber Resistance: South African Internet Art, in From Afro-Futurism to Post African Futures,Technoetic Arts a Journal of Speculative Research, issue 12.2-3. Publisher: Intellect^[9]

References

1. ^https://www.artsy.net/artist/tabita-rezaire/shows
2. ^https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/decolonising-the-internet-artist-tabita-rezaire/
3. ^https://mg.co.za/article/2017-04-21-00-rezaire-awakens-what-is-within
4. ^http://www.mmoma.ru/en/exhibitions/gogolevsky_10_2/this_site_is_under_revolution/
5. ^https://art.newcity.com/2018/09/13/contending-with-the-internet-as-medium-and-infrastructure-a-review-of-i-was-raised-on-the-internet-at-the-museum-of-contemporary-art/
6. ^https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/214800/6th-athens-biennaleanti/
7. ^http://tabitarezaire.com/info.html
8. ^http://www.designindaba.com/articles/point-view/just-don’t-call-us-afrofuturist
9. ^https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2819/