Short excerpt from the work in 360. 

Enua Manea: Presentation

4/12/20

Video references in the Film

4/12/20

Climate change causes Islands to disappear | 60 Minutes Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1cdCUZNh04

Climate Change in the Pacific: COASTS (narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq234w56n2o

DROWNING ISLANDS - The Sea Swallows Samoa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9PuPSl1_WE 

Tears shed at Pacific Islands Forum over Australia’s climate change efforts | Nine News Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNNse6v15tM

Tens of thousands across NZ march for climate change action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00f_z9Zhmd4

Obama calls climate change our greatest threat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTIrSUL6Gnk

Donald Trump vs. climate change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0tENI3ef7Y 

Making the headpieces and trimming the edges. 

Cleaning the palm leaves in preparation for the Installation

End Product of the Lei’s

2/12/20

Both of the garland/lei’s turned out quiet well, after making them we had to sprinkle them in a cool area. [Which it is in a bathtub] 

Mama making the lei’s with the fresh flowers. Progress shots. 

Fresh Flowers and Leaves progress.

1/12/20

This morning my mum and I collected flowers and palm leaves for roughly two hours, to create the lei’s and cover the floor in the installation. 

30/11/20

Testing day of the projections 

Testing Day for Projections

30/11/20

Before the Installation is being presented on Thursday, I wanted to run through the projections to make sure there were no faults. Overall, I was extremely happy with the outcome of the work. 

Projected Image

25/11/20

After working through the film, I have decided to change the name of the project to Enua Manea. Essentially translated to Beautiful land, this to provide a broader subject matter towards climate change and culture loss, and less focus on the materials used. 

In reflection of Ah Kee’s work, I wanted to use split screens to cover both sides of the wall. It makes you feel incapsulated in the work, rather than watching from an outsiders perspective. 

Split Screen 1: 

https://sydney.instructuremedia.com/embed/abf0f8fd-d75b-48f7-9fe7-e4a08d5c42bf

Split Screen 2: 

https://sydney.instructuremedia.com/embed/ee7d0c98-8b9f-4558-9a4c-ede52d61369d

List of items needed for presentation

23/11/20

·     2 projectors/ HDMI cables

·     2 woven mats

·     Palm/fern leaves

·     Gardenia Ei’s

·     Speaker

·     Sarongs

·     Statues

·     Tivaevae

·     Camera

Enua Manea [Beautiful Land]

23/11/20

Tiaki mai i ahau, maku ano koe e tiaki… If you look after me, then I will look after you.

Enua Manea is an immersive interactive installation, reflecting upon the current state of climate change within the Pacific Islands. This work utilises various mediums to create an atmospheric mis-en-scene of the cautiousness towards climate change. Utilising the space, through covering the floor with fresh leaves and flowers, handmade woven mats and sarongs, to display the rich culture that can be easily lost due to climate change and human interaction. Enua Manea evidently reflects the audience’s cautiousness and connectivity with the land, creating an individual experience for each person.

The filmic projection of the work engages as an educational representation of climate change from both the media and personal perspectives. This represented within the two split-screen video installation, documenting the state of the climate change issues within the Pacific islands and the media coverage upon it. Sourcing footage from directed interviews, newsreels and mobile phones, the 9-minute looped video highlights the encouragement of recognising climate change within larger countries to assist these islands. Continually, this work reflects the destruction of land and culture, illuminated with the dichotomous use of fresh materials and cultural objects, and that of the technologically advanced projected image. Overall, Enua Manea reflects upon educating individual upon climate change and culture loss within the Pacific islands, through an interactive installation that intrudes the privacy of sacred objects.