Joyfully and honestly exploring themes of diaspora, marvelling at the forces of tectonic power and the natural world, what binds us, as tangata, beneath the divisive architecture of the modern time? Class, race, gender, power and identity politics, Indigenous longing
Tīhei Mauri Ora!

“ALL I AM ACCOUNTABLE TO IN TRUTH, IS THE DOT OF BLACK AT THE CENTRE OF THE IRIS, SOME MINI PITCH BLACK NIGHT SKY, AND BEYOND, THE GREAT FORMLESS.”

Created and performed by: Ana Chaya Scotney
Initially researched with: Eleanor Bishop as part of Basement Theatre’s Ideas in Residence 2020
In korero with the whanau: Iwa, Atamira, Toia, Uncle Fi, Audrey, Gee, Nika, Tame, Freddy and Erin

“I WAS LOOKING AT THE SEAMS OF ALCOHOL WRITHING THROUGH HIS NEGRONI GLASS LIKE PREGNANT LONG FIN TUNA,”