A truly hybrid project, SA/MOA tells of Oceanic resilience and relationship as Tasmanian Samoan, Lila Meleisea, expands her music and community-based practice to roles as visual artist, artistic director and curator.
SA/MOA takes two simultaneous forms; a performance/exhibition space and a space for knowledge-sharing and community.
The gallery-style install of cultural artefacts, mandala wall-works, siapo barkcloth, and time-based AV works is inhabited by a curated assortment of durational performances that, together with a large brew-pot of cocoa, weave together to embrace audiences in an all-sensory experience across a number of days with community-based conversations and actions occurring alongside.
Premiering in lutruwita/ Tasmania in 2025, SA/MOA introduces an esteemed and fascinating Samoan collective of makers, knowledge keepers and cultural and environmental activists from Naarm/Melbourne, Gimuy/Cairns, Lutruwita/Tasmania as well as Samoa to a Tasmanian audience.
