Ground: Truth Cyclones was a presentation of research towards INTERPRT’s Cyclone Pam Stories project.

It was exhibited in Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss at ADM Gallery in Singapore and Ocean Space in Venice, which explored archipelagic networks across the Alliance of Small Island Developing States, from Singapore in the Riau Archipelago to Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean.

Extending connections and conversations seeded during the inaugural TBA21–Academy’s The Current programme, with the first three-year cycle led by Prof Ute Meta Bauer (2015–17), Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss gathered video interviews, photographic documentation, filmic works, texts and data visualisations by former The Current fellows and current research collaborators.

They share the exhibition space with artisanal crafts generous gifted by knowledge bearers and community leaders from the Pacific, exploring the impacts of extreme weather, rising seas, climate displacement, ocean resource extraction, and the disappearance of material culture traditions occurring across “our sea of islands” as it is called by visionary Pacific thinker Epeli Hau’ofa.