Fluid States Pasifika: spacing events through an entangled oceanic dramaturgy

<p><i>Fluid States Pasifika</i> addresses the role played in PSi’s 2015 <i>Fluid States</i> project by the Pacific region: a vast and generally disregarded oceanic territory that has radically transformed over the last 250 years through colonial encounter, settler culture, militarization, migrations, global capitalism, and climate change.</p> <blockquote>"As a liquid continent, the region tends to image itself through the ocean, <i>te Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa</i>: a connective space of currents, vortices, drifts, suspensions, sediments, tides, foams, and flows that resists fixity; performing in-flux” (Hannah et al. 90).</blockquote> <p>Representing a fluid, enmeshed, and immersive dramaturgical condition, its <i>Moana</i>/Ocean culture complicates the recent emphasis on a performative interweave with that of fluctuating entanglement just above and below an unpredictable atomized surface.</p>