Exhibition • Upcoming

Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania

23 Jan – 23 Mar 2025

Above: Latai Taumoepeau, Deep Communion sung in minor (ArchipelaGO, THIS IS NOT A DRILL), 2024. Exhibition view of Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania, Ocean Space, Venice. Co-commissioned by TBA21–Academy and Artspace, and produced in partnership with OGR Torino. Photo: Giacomo Cosua
Location
Artspace
43–51 Cowper Wharf Roadway
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
Opening
Opening details soon

Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania is a ground-breaking Pacific-led exhibition comprising two site-specific commissions by artists Latai Taumoepeau and Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta and is curated by Bougainville-born artist Taloi Havini. Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania invites audiences through story, song, performance, action and activism to connect with communities living on the islands and atolls of the Southern Hemisphere and to listen to their voices and demands for greater climate justice. Heta’s architectural installation The Body of Wainuiātea is designed as a space for exchange and sharing that embodies ritual and ceremony guided by the Māori concept of tikanga. Taumopeau’s work Deep Communion sung in minor (ArchipelaGO, THIS IS NOT A DRILL) is designed to engage visitors, who, through their movements, become protagonists in a collective ritual and send an invocation to protect the ocean. Throughout the project a series of conversations, performances and actions will take place with the public, Pacific communities and sporting teams. 

Curators
Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania is commissioned by TBA21–Academy and Artspace, Sydney. It has been first presented at TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space, Venice and produced with OGR, Torino, in 2024.

This project is supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW and by City of Sydney.

Supported by Sydney Festival.

Past Locations

Ocean Space
23 Mar – 13 Oct 2024