Project Banaba is a touring exhibition by artist, teacher and scholar Katerina Teaiwa first commissioned by Carriageworks on Gadigal land, Sydney, in 2017. The multimedia installation is curated by lead curator Yuki Kihara working in close partnership with a locally-engaged curator.

It combines textiles, film, photographs, archives and the voices of Banaban poets, scholars, artists, activists, leaders, and colonial, mining and agricultural officials.

The story covers almost a century of phosphate mining, activism and protest, Indigenous displacement, superphosphate fertiliser production, and the consumption and decimation of this small but globally valuable Pacific island.

Katerina Teaiwa & Yuki Kihara

Acknowledgements
Lisa Havillah
Lisa Ffrench
Kirsten Farrell
Tayla Blewitt-Gray
Dana Castle
Daniel Edwards
Greer Versteeg
Helen Pilkinton
Prajdnik Awasthi
Jess Mio
James Price
Laura Vodanovich
Caren Rangi & family
Talei Mangioni
Michael Fitzgerald
Jess Mio
Maggie Kaipati
Rae Bainteiti
Pelenise Alofa
Healoha Johnston
Joy Enomoto
Maggie Wander
Michael Dagostino
Rebecca Conway
Banaban community Aotearoa
Sean & Vaitoa Mallon
Manoa Teaiwa
Maria Teaiwa-Rutherford
Nicholas, Tearia & Kiera Teaiwa Mortimer
John and Joan Teaiwa
Teaiwa Kainga on Rabi & everywhere
Carriageworks
MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahuriri
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary
Bishop Museum
Chau Chak Wing Museum
Para Site
Kathmandu Triennale
University of Queensland Art Gallery

State Library of Victoria

National Archives of Australia

Centre for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
ANU School of Art
ANU School of Culture, History & Language

Katerina Teaiwa & Yuki Kihara

State Library of Victoria

National Archives of Australia

Centre for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa ANU School of Art ANU School of Culture, History & Language

Centre for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
ANU School of Art
ANU School of Culture, History & Language