Tabita Rezaire
Tabita Rezaire, L'Art de naître - The Art of Birth, 2022. View at Hotel Ladinia, Ortisei. A co-commissioned by E-WERK Luckenwalde and Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Artist, doula, healer and farmer Tabita Rezaire’s work spans video, animation, archive work, digital projects, sound pieces, installation and ritual offerings. Addressing racism, decolonial liberation, self-healing, womxn divinity/womb power, and the political and ecological stakes inherent in today’s landscapes of advanced technology, Rezaire is unflinching in her analysis that the current state of digital technologies mirrors – and in fact feeds – the accumulation of power and control over those technologies by the white, patriarchal and colonial West. A few years ago, Rezaire relocated from Paris to Cayenne, and then to the Amazonian rainforest of French Guiana, to dedicate herself to AMAKABA, a healing and knowledge centre that, Rezaire insists, is not a commodifiable art work. Rather, AMAKABA is a place, a long-term research project and a set of practices, dedicated to the arts and sciences of Earth, Body and Sky as alternative advanced technologies to the nihilistic futures proposed by techno-colonial capitalism. As part of AMAKABA, Rezaire brings together wisdoms and testimonies which constitute a living, breathing archive of knowledge.
Revisiting “personhood” through the lens of the divine feminine and its role in the creation of life, in L’art de naître we experience the transmission of four women who, from their respective traditions, have supported and cared for the initiation of motherhood: Mrs Yapara from the Indigenous Lokono tradition, Odette and Noria Majokko from the Maroon Saramaka tradition, and Mrs Myriam Kerrel from the Creole tradition. L’art de naître is a window into AMAKABA’s research process and the artist’s own journey as a doula, as Rezaire follows in the footsteps of her grandmother and great-grandmother, both midwives.
Tabita Rezaire
Tabita Rezaire, L'Art de naître - The Art of Birth, 2022. View at Hotel Ladinia, Ortisei. A co-commissioned by E-WERK Luckenwalde and Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Artist, doula, healer and farmer Tabita Rezaire’s work spans video, animation, archive work, digital projects, sound pieces, installation and ritual offerings. Addressing racism, decolonial liberation, self-healing, womxn divinity/womb power, and the political and ecological stakes inherent in today’s landscapes of advanced technology, Rezaire is unflinching in her analysis that the current state of digital technologies mirrors – and in fact feeds – the accumulation of power and control over those technologies by the white, patriarchal and colonial West. A few years ago, Rezaire relocated from Paris to Cayenne, and then to the Amazonian rainforest of French Guiana, to dedicate herself to AMAKABA, a healing and knowledge centre that, Rezaire insists, is not a commodifiable art work. Rather, AMAKABA is a place, a long-term research project and a set of practices, dedicated to the arts and sciences of Earth, Body and Sky as alternative advanced technologies to the nihilistic futures proposed by techno-colonial capitalism. As part of AMAKABA, Rezaire brings together wisdoms and testimonies which constitute a living, breathing archive of knowledge.
Revisiting “personhood” through the lens of the divine feminine and its role in the creation of life, in L’art de naître we experience the transmission of four women who, from their respective traditions, have supported and cared for the initiation of motherhood: Mrs Yapara from the Indigenous Lokono tradition, Odette and Noria Majokko from the Maroon Saramaka tradition, and Mrs Myriam Kerrel from the Creole tradition. L’art de naître is a window into AMAKABA’s research process and the artist’s own journey as a doula, as Rezaire follows in the footsteps of her grandmother and great-grandmother, both midwives.