Making the Invisible Shine
What is our culture, heritage and identity? The Wayfinders explore what it means to be who we are. In our society many will find that they “pass” or are “masked’ as pakeha, samoan, maori, chinese or whatever it is that you will be seen as on the surface or in your appearance, but feel conflicted or reject this label.
This project is an bi-annual immersive impact storytelling experience that seeks to, as a collective, find, identify and reclaim that which others may not see.
"Making the Invisible Shine" is about considering stories that touch on topics that are invisible to us in the same way that navigating can be impossible unless the sun illuminates a guiding star. Through exploring new forms of storytelling, we embark on creating interactive and immersive experiences that step outside of the common narrative and into new perspectives that open up new doors of perception and understanding.
The theme is intended as a broad theme that can be interpreted by the participants in any way they see it. The troikas will have creative freedom and it can be anything from cultural, satirical, personal, social commentary, surreal/abstract and/or about the little things in life.
Inspiration : Heliacal = The Rising of the Stars in our Sky
in the context that Matariki is the Heliacal rising of the Pleiades star cluster (Māori: Matariki), signalling the Māori new year relating to or near the sun used especially of the last setting of a star before and its first rising after invisibility due to conjunction with the sun.
the work will explore topics of ancestry, heritage and diaspora, to shine a light on and make the invisible shine like stars in our society.
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