Repatriate

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Event Repatriate
Venue Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW
Umbrella Event Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2015
First Date 22 October 2015
Last Date 24 October 2015
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Two Part performance.
Part 1: A woman dances her inherited Pacific Island movement vocabulary in a perspex tank. Swathed in flotation devices, the body is protected, as the tank fills with water and submerges the artist.

Part 2: Repatriate: Ocean Island… Mine!
A woman, a 500kg block of ice, a shovel, and the steady walk from point A to point B. Back and forth, she works the open-cut mines of the past into the future of climate change; excavating the solid white rock into invisibility.This work belongs to a genealogy of durational performance reflections from Taumoepeau’s Stitching (up)
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Performance Art
Ecological Theatre
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Latai Taumoepeau Performer
Resources
Works
Text Nationality Tonga
Production Nationality Tonga
Further Information Presented as part of the Liveworks Free Performance Program.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 140922