Artists
Orama Nigou
Orama Nigou is a visual research artist from French Polynesia. Her work has a deep connection with her polynesian heritage and blooms by creating textile feathered objects that might be activated during installations or performances. Her practice questions thematics as memory and transmission, exploring notions as intimacy of the creative process, self-building and human transformation/metamorphosis.
Alinta Barlow
Alinta Barlow is a Ngunnawal singer/song writer from Canberra Australia. Her passion for culture stem from working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through her work as a Cultural Arts teacher and through her music. She currently runs a First Nations Women's choir by the name of Wamburang - the Ngunnawal word for the Black Cockatoo. Since 2019 she has been helping to learn and revive the Ngunnawal language along with many other Ngunnawal community members. This has sparked her interest in creating more cultural artworks. She has experience with drawing and painting however prefers to work with digital art. Alinta wants to expand on her artistic knowledge through exploring her culture and others.
Teremoana Rapley
Te Whare Hēra are delighted to welcome Black Moana Sovereign Storyteller, Matriarchitect Teremoana Rapley MNZM.
Rubén Darío Díaz Chávez
A cross-cultural practice rooted in community
Rubén Darío Díaz Chávez is a researcher, curator and cultural manager whose career spans Latin America, Europe and Asia. His research touches on themes as diverse as quantum realism, independent art spaces in Latin America and Sapara Indigenous culture in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
SAtheCollective
SAtheCollective is an innovative arts company based in Singapore, dedicated to celebrating and showcasing the richness of Chinese and Southeast Asian cultural heritage.
An interdisciplinary, intercultural, and intergenerational organization, they create dynamic and relevant experiences that inspire and connect people, making heritage relevant to the times.
SA's music creates immersive, ritualistic, and multidimensional performances, combining vocals with traditional, ethnic, and folk instruments as well as state-of-the-art interactive audio and visual technologies. Their style embodies elements of Indigenous Music, World Music, electronic music, experimental music, ambient drone, and more, showcasing an innovative fusion of technology and tradition.
Clément Verger
Clément Verger is a French artist-researcher whose work questions the apparent wilderness of the landscapes that surround us in the Anthropocene era, blending artistic production with scientific protocols in a research-driven approach. His projects are conceived as tools for analyzing the complex ramifications of human influence on the environment.