Dance Protest: Project Banaba at Chau Chak Wing Museum

Dance Protest, Project Banaba, the current exhibition at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, was created by artist Katerina Teaiwa and curator Yuki Kihara.

This show explores the history of Banaba and cultural dance practices as political protest. In the 20th century, the British Phosphate Commissioners, a partnership between the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, mined 22 million tons of phosphate from the island. In 1945, Banabans endured forced relocation to Rabi Island, Fiji. This exhibition honours the 80th anniversary of this forced removal and highlights this unjust history.

Monday Daily’s Lorna MacRitchie chatted to the museum’s curator of pacific cultural collections Rebecca Conway.