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Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific
Diana Looser
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Moving Islands reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theater, performance art, art installations, dance, film, and activist performance in sites throughout Oceania and in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe. Diana Looser's study moves beyond a predictable country-specific or island-specific focus to encompass an entire region defined by diversity and global exchange, showing how performance operates to frame social, artistic, and political relationships across widely dispersed locations. The study also demonstrates how Oceanian performance contributes to international debates about diaspora, indigeneity, urbanization, and environmental sustainability. The author considers the region's unique cultural and geographic dynamics as she brings forth the paradigm of transpasifika to suggest a way of understanding these intercultural exchanges and connections, with the aim to "rework the cartographic and disciplinary priorities of transpacific studies to privilege the activities of Islander peoples."
Figure 8. The ensemble honors the Fijian waqa drua (voyaging canoe) in the Oceania Centre’s Vaka: The Birth of a Seer (2012), devised by Vilsoni Hereniko, Peter Espiritu, and Igelese Ete. Japan-Pacific ICT Theatre, University of the South Pacific, Suva. Photograph by, and courtesy of, Naoki Takyo.
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