KALOUGATA

excavation. knowing. transformation. dreaming.

KALOUGATA is a relationship, a cave, a nest, a compass, and most importantly; a pantheon.
Existing as a living, breathing world of evolving practice, KALOUGATA has become a mother-word and mother-multiverse to house the process of becoming, research, experimentation, relationships, reclamation, remembering, and the continuing sheddings of Jahra Wasasala’s current creative season. KALOUGATA is a relational space for Jahra’s Fijian heritage and non-human exchanges. For Jahra, blood-memory and beyond-body visions intersect in this growing eco-system of world-building, voices, entities, worlds, languages, species, dreams and nightmares. This is Oceanic Terror-fi and it’s love (and obsession) of possibilities.

KALOUGATA is a home-ground where small and large works arise. Each work is named as a member of KALOUGATA’s pantheon and has it’s own being, it’s own autonomy and it’s own sense of navigation. Since the KALOUGATA space of potential revealed itself in 2020, KALOUGATA has offered the visual exhibition ‘KALOUGATA: under the earth’, the online-world exhibition ‘KALOUGATA: above the earth’, the digital world-work ‘DRA’, the short dance film ‘SAIVA’, and the development showing of ‘TADRA, and other visions’.

KALOUGATA has collaborative relationships with different artists and mediums spanning across dance, digital art, skin-costume, sound and sculpture. Collaborative relationships include ooshcon, Henry Lai-Pyne, Oliva ‘Spewer’ Luki, 6x4 online, Navi Fong, Byrin ‘XIII’ Mita, Tara Hodge, Frances Carter, EXOMORPH and Thorn Richards. A development within a work for KALOUGATA included mentor-ship from Solomon Enos and Tarisi Sorovi-Vunidilo.