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When Attitude Becomes Form: An Act of Radical Empathy

  • Artist Talk Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi
  • Free entry

90 min.

© Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, photo: Paulo Oliveira

09.05.2022

Monday

19:30

CNDB "Stere Popescu” hall (Mărășești, 80-82)

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Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi also known as crazinsT artisT (sHit/she) will share sHits experiences, artivism and artist journey as a radical intervention. sHit will detail performance art as an empathetic political tool and weapon for social change. Va-Bene is currently one of the main frontline activists fighting the proposed anti LGBTQ+ Bill in Ghana dubbed the ‘PROMOTION OF PROPER HUMAN SEXUAL RIGHTS AND GHANAIAN FAMILY VALUES BILL, 2021 which will criminalise queer lives, advocacy, solidarity etc.

Biography
Born 1981 in Ho, Ghana, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT] works internationally but lives in Kumasi, Ghana. sHit is a multidisciplinary “artivist”, curator, mentor and the founder and artistic director of perfocraZe International Artists Residency (pIAR) which aimed at promoting exchange between international and local artists, activists, researchers, curators, and thinkers. As a performer and installation artist, crazinisT investigates gender stereotypes, prejudices, queerness, identity politics and conflicts, sexual stigma and their consequences for marginalized groups or individuals. With rituals and a gender-fluid persona, sHit employs sHits own body as a thought-provoking tool in performances, photography, video, and installations, ‘life-and-live-art’ confronting issues such as disenfranchisement, social justice, violence, objectification, internalized oppression, anti blackness, systemic indoctrination and many more.
crazinisT has performed and exhibited across the globe including countries such as Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Switzerland, South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, Cape Verde, USA, Spain, Brazil, France and UK.
sHit has also been featured in several, publications and magazines such as the I-D Vice London, I-D Vice Dutch, Financial times, King Kong Magazine, CCQ London, Maimi Rails, ‘Freeflowingvisuals’, TRT WORD Film Documentary, This is Africa, Art Ghana, Lost At E Minor, CNN, The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Tageszeitung (TAZ), Horizonte da Cena, Radio FRO etc

Press

“Re-born to die” / People’s Stories Project (PSP)
Evans Kafui Offori
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