Durational performances by Dondon Hounwn

Durational performances by Dondon Hounwn
Wednesday 5 November and Thursday 6 November
Holden Gallery

11:00am –12:00pm Traditional Weaving and Yarn Twisting

14:30–16:00pm Ritual of Traditional Tattooing and Sharing of Food

The artist and their team will be present in the gallery and audiences can walk in freely during the performances. The performance project blurs the boundaries between life and art within Indigenous culture, drawing on the Truku genesis myth of Hagay, a queer deity who creates the world, and extending to collective practices by four Indigenous artists from different Taiwanese tribes. Through weaving, ritual, music, dance, and embodied practices, the work enacts a process of transvaluation, overturning normative values and reconfiguring the symbolic and social conditions of indigeneity. In doing so, it regenerates cultural memory, reclaims Indigenous presence, and affirms tribal life as a living practice of being at home, where belonging is both renewed and continually reimagined.