Talanoa Forum: Moana Rising
First presented at the 59th Venice Biennale, the Talanoa Forum extends the themes of the Paradise Camp exhibition by bringing together 24 artists, curators, scholars, activists and policymakers from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Sāmoa, Tahiti and Italy. This 3-day interdisciplinary program will highlight urgent issues including small island ecologies, climate justice, decolonial museology, diasporic and Pacific alliances.
Talanoa Forum Provocateurs
Ioana Gordon-Smith (NZ)
Prof Francesca Tarocco (Venice)
Prof Katerina Teaiwa SFHEA (AUS)
Talanoa Forum Speakers
Miriama Bono (Tahiti)
Prof Cristina Baldacci (Venice)
Sefa Enari MNZM (NZ)
Aanoali'i Rowena Fuluifaga (NZ)
Tammi Gissell (Muruwari-Wiradjuri)
Yuki Kihara (Sāmoa)
Prof Natalie King
Tau'ili'ili Alpha Maiava (NZ)
Madeline Poll (Torres Strait-Australian South Sea Islander)
Alofipo Fleur Ramsay
Prof Jioji Ravulo
Rosanna Raymond MNZM
Cindy of Sāmoa
Harold Samu
Jannike Seiuli
Nathan Mudyi Sentance (Wiradjuri)
Tiumalu Noma Sio-Faiumu (NZ)
Lalau Leo Tanoi
Latai Taumoepeau
Ta'iao Matiu Matavai Tautunu (Sāmoa)
Thelma Thomas (MC Trey)
Fagalima Tuatagaloa (Sāmoa)
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