Name: Tabita Rezaire
Nationality: F
Place of Birth: Paris
Year of Birth: 1989
Areas of Work: tech-healing-activism, screen-based media
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Tabita Rezaire, born in Paris 1989, lives and works in Johannesburg. She is a French born Guyanese/Danish new media artist, intersectional cultural activist, tech-politics researcher and Kemetic yoga teacher based in Johannesburg.

She holds a Bachelor in Economics and a MRes Art: Moving Image from Central Saint Martins College, London. Her work focuses on decolonial knowledge and explores the political aesthetics of resistance through screen-based practices.

Addressing the performativity of encounters – online and offline – her works tackle the pervasive matrix of coloniality and its effects on technology, sexuality, race, gender, media representation and spirituality. Confronting occidental hegemony, she provides alternative narratives through digital healing activism challenging our white-supremacist-patriarchal-hetero-normative-globalized world screen.

Tabita is a co-founder of the tech health agency NTU and co-runs the art office Malaxa. Artnet listed her among the 10 International Black artists to watch in 2016 and in 2015 True Africa selected her as one of the continent’s top 100 innovators and opinion makers. She has shown her work internationally – Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art Paris, Anthology Film Archive NY, Joburg Art Fair, Mocada NY, Berlin Biennale (forthcoming)... Tabita has curated video screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Art London, presented her research at international conferences, led technology and booty politics workshops, and has had her writings published by Intellect and Cambridge Scholars. Tabita is represented by the Goodman Gallery in South Africa.