Brian Fuata | Queer Australian Art

Brian Fuata, Apparitional Charlatan Minor Appearances (Accumulations 2020-2021), an improvisation of spoken word and physical gestures using the image of the ghost
Image courtesy of the artist.

Bio

Brian Fuata (b. 1978) is a Samoan artist born in Aotearoa / New Zealand and based in Sydney, Australia. In addition to a live art practice of structured improvisation, Fuata has developed a unique method of remote performance through email correspondence and text message exchanges. Alongside his solo practice, he is part of the duo Wrong Solo with Agatha Gothe-Snape. In April 2022, Fuata and artist Latai Taumoepeau curated MONUMENTAL (working title), a weekend of multidisciplinary performance for the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s 150-year anniversary celebrations which was remounted as part of the Sydney Festival in January 2023.

Fuata was the 2020 Winner of the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, Helsinki. Past works include: Untitled (Intermission), 2022 ANTI Festival Helsinki and Singapore Biennale (2022); Five Columns, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2020); Apparitional Charlatan ~ Minor Appearances, Biennale of Sydney (2020); Care disfigurements (flowers), 4A Gallery Sydney for Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong (2019); Broadloom, Murray Art Museum Albury (2019); IWMLDFS (or MINIBAR), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2019); The Guest House, Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2018); All Nothing, Poetry Project, New York (2015); All titles, PERFORMA, New York (2015); Untitled (a refit of the sheet), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015); and Points of Departure 1–3, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2014).