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What If We Love & Protect Each Other?
SATURDAY, 28 JUNE 2025
perfocraZe International Artist Residence (pIAR) in collaboration with the (DAP) Digital Archive Project GH and W’AHU Magazine is inviting friends, families, artists, fans, art enthusiasts and the general public to our exhibition titled: What If We Love & Protect Each Other?
VENUE/LOCATION
perfocraze_international Artist Residency, Kumasi
crazinisT artisT studiO, Oduom, Kumasi (check google Map for direction or call us)
Detailed direction and contact numbers will be provided after reservation
Ticket:
Our tickets are free and open for everyone but for limited space, please sign up for free by filling this form or contact us on WhatsApp +233 20 413 7407 Or email: piarvirtualstudio@gmail.com
GATE OPENS @ 3:30PM GMT
ENTRY FREE FREE FREE
NOTE: First Performance starts at exactly 4:00PM GMT. Don't miss it!
- LINE UP
- Perfomances
- Installations
- Films/moving images
- Panel conversation
- Party
There will be some refreshments with drinks, pastries, popcorn etc during the opening...
COME, AND LET'S LOVE AND PROTECT EACH OTHER
What If We Love & Protect Each Other? is not a question — it is a practice, an offering, and a collective act of resistance.
What If We Love & Protect Each Other is a space of celebration and remembrance: it honours the present vitality of queer life while acknowledging the histories often erased or suppressed that have made this moment possible.
Rooted in a nexus of mutualism, W’AHU, Wahu Magazine in collaboration with the (DAP) Digital archive project gh and pIAR perforcraZe International Artist Residency, brings together archival traces and contemporary artistic interventions. Through acts of reclamation, reinterpretation, and reimagination, these works confront hegemonic narratives and reaffirm the multiplicity of queer experiences in Ghana.
Featuring Ato Kwamina Hasford, Baahwa, Eden Oyeoku, Essel Ekuban, and Naa Nuerkie, these artists work across sound, textiles, performance and photography, engaging with sites of collective memory, reimagining our connections as ecosystems of care, where protection and support enable resilience and growth.
This exhibition becomes both a sanctuary and a proposition. It holds space for reflection, mourning, affirmation, and imagination of what becomes possible when we choose to love and protect one another.
LOVE WINS
pAIR || W’AHU || DAP
You can also apply for the 2026 Artist Residency
INFORMATION AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU MUST NOT MISS
perfocraZe International Artist Residency (pIAR)
pIAR is certified as an interdisciplinary artists program, performance ‘hatchery’, cultural incubator, research laboratory and interactive platform that aimed at promoting exchange between international and local artists, activists, researchers, writers, curators and critical thinkers
LovefEAST
Love fEAST is an annual dinner that aims at promoting true Ghanaian family values of hospitality, compassion, kindness, community networks, and a healthy human relations.
It seeks to bridge the gap between the artists, the queer families, and local communities. It marks the celebration of our new year, a rebirth, solidarity and untamed love.
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About crazinisT artisT studiO
crazinisT artisT studiO is a nonprofit interdisciplinary incubator and a practical performance research space which started in 2011 as a personal and solo artist’s space for painting and later transitioned into multidisciplinary studio practice through performances, videos, photography, installations and films. The year 2015 marked the first international and cross disciplinary collaborations opening with 68 international participants in ‘the Return of the Slaves’, (12 hours durational performance in the slave dungeon of Elmina Castle) which was supported by the Ghana Museums and Monument Board (GMMB), Elmina Castle, blaxTARLINES and the Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST.
As an artist, director and collaborator, Va-Bene E.K Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT] has annually invited artists across the world to participate in studio projects and also exhibit at the Chale Wote Art Festival in Accra. crazinisT’s second collaboration with Natascia Sylverio from the University of Cologne, was on her Thesis project ‘Visual Anthropology and Performance Art’. In 2016 the studio developed an intense collaborative relationship with a German performance artist, John Herman which was presented at the 2017 Chale Wote Art Festival in the James Fort prison Accra. In April to August 2018, crazinisT artisT studiO collaborated with The One Minute, an Amsterdam based Film institute, curating a series of short films dubbed ‘prism of Freedom’, currently touring the world and screened recently in the Shanghai tower and the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (CN)
The studio however, has opened a new Performance Residency, [pIAR] starting in January through to end of August 2019 and every other year. pIAR 2019 will host more than 20 artists, from Switzerland, Germany, UK, USA, Brazil, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Togo and Mexico for artistic development, collaborative projects, and cultural exchange.
crazinisT, has also performed and exhibited in Ghana, Germany, USA, South Africa, Switzerland, Netherlands, Nigeria, Cape Verde, UK and Togo and has strong ties with the Alliance Francaise, Goethe Institute, Gallery 1957, Faculty of Art KNUST, blaxTARLINES, Nubuke Foundation, Museum of Science and Technology Accra, the Prince Claus Fund, and Art Moves Africa (AMA) as major supporters and sponsors over the past years.