Unfolded Pacific was part of the group exhibition Te Au: Liquid Constituencies, which gathered works by artists that engage in significant relationships with water. The exhibition was loosely structured around the rotating currents of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa-flowing from the unique landscape of Taranaki, down Te Ika-a-Māui to Horowhenua and the Kāpiti Coast, coursing past Antarctica and Patagonia, before moving through the waters around Tuvalu and Tonga among many other island nations, and along the Australian coastline.

INTERPRT’s project room – first realized for the 2016 Dhaka Art Summit – focused on our investigative project on the West Papua conflict along with a series of sketches and diagrams that reconceptualized the Pacific as an extractive frontline.

The works in the exhibition project space included our multimedia visualization on the impacts of industrial mining in West Papua, an infrastructural study of Runit dome – a contested U.S. built structure containing nuclear waste – in the Marshall Islands, and a drawing of the human and nonhuman actors involved in seabed mining in Papua New Guinea. We organized the material in our exhibition around the geological fault line of the Pacific Ocean – as an unfolded line drawn across the walls and floor of the exhibition space. We also created a timeline of the history of ecocide law, in order to bring context as to why protection against the environmental destruction for climate frontline Pacific Islands is missing today. Unfolded Pacific was realized as part of our research commission from TBA21 Academy.