“While we may talk back to the empire, we can’t talk to each other.”
Join Lana Lopesi, one of the Visiting Curators of ‘The Commute’, for the Australian launch of her book ‘False Divides’. Lopesi is a critic of art and culture based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand.
“Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa is the great ocean continent. While it is common to understand the ocean as something that divides land, for those Indigenous to the Pacific or the Moana, it was traditionally a connector and an ancestor.”—Lana Lopesi
In ‘False Divides’ Lopesi asks how Pacific peoples around the Moana can connect once again and overcome the false divides created by colonialism. She proposes that technology, particularly the internet and social media, is crucial for forging and maintaining relationships across the ocean. ‘False Divides’ argues that the online world is turning the ocean back into the continent that it once was, unifying diasporic Moana peoples.
Hear readings of select passages from ‘False Divides’ by Lopesi and other Visiting Curators, Léuli Eshrāghi and Sarah Biscarra Dilley.
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