“Kai-Hai: 塑 Plastia” by Tiare Ribeaux


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    Kai-Hai: 塑 Plastia

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    Kai-Hai: 塑 Plastia is a video installation (stills above) that explores The Great Pacific Garbage Patch which contains approximately 80,000 tons of plastic over a 1.6 million-square-kilometer region of ocean linking East Asia to Hawai‘i. Linking these geographies and the deities they have worshiped – from Mazu, goddess of seafarers lost in the ocean; to Haumea, who birthed the Hawaiian islands and is continuously reborn in her offspring – this new work in Kai 海 Hai realizes a Goddexx formed from the need to remediate microplastics from the ocean. She continually gives birth to new children and is reborn each time within them, in order to restore the ocean to its natural state. As plastics threaten our ocean health and all species in the ocean, Plastia is a response to cleansing our ancestral waters, rebirthing new elements of renewal, delivering a new lineage of creation to heal our oceans.

    Kai 海 Hai (a hybrid of ‘Ocean’ in ʻŌlelo Hawai’i and Mandarin) is an ongoing series of virtual and augmented reality installations that utilize transpacific folklore while remixing ancestral, personal, and speculative narratives from Polynesia to East Asia to explore environmental issues, indigenous and immigrant stories, and diaspora across the Pacific Ocean. In collaboration with Qianqian Ye

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