D.A.N.C.E. art club
D.A.N.C.E. (Distinguished All Night Community Entertainers) art club is made up of Tuafale Tanoa’i aka Linda T, Vaimaila Urale, Chris Fitzgerald and Ahilapalapa Rands.
Since forming D.A.N.C.E. in 2008 the members continue to utilise the club as a testing space for identifying and pushing against restrictive and exclusionary definitions of what art can be. With a collaborative curatorial approach, D.A.N.C.E. events incorporate installations, music, performance, and food sharing, reimagining the social dynamic as a creative and transgressive platform. A consideration of D.A.N.C.E. practice inside and outside of the gallery opens up a discussion for the ways in which celebratory & amateur innovations can tag onto existing systems activating democratic participations in spaces and contexts normally associated with institutional practices. From regional art galleries, artist run spaces, community galleries, and art festivals; to more public spaces such as pool-halls, nightclubs and public parks D.A.N.C.E. intentionally seeks out new and diverse exhibition spaces and social phenomena to explore. The responsive nature of D.A.N.C.E. enables a parallel development that is at once social, political and mutually constitutive with their audiences.
Recent projects include: Guinness World Record Attempt, W e l c o m e exhibition, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, 2014.; Long Distance Relationship Mixtape Series, volume 1, Japan, England, New Zealand, 2015; NOHO 2016, All Goods Art Gallery, Whau Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand, 2016.