We are excited to welcome the last artist to conclude Te Whare Hēra’s hosting during Mana Moana 2024, FAIUMU MATTHEW SALAPU (A.K.A ANONYMOUZ)! Matthew is staying over this weekend, whilst we celebrate Matariki and as Mana Moana concludes yet another year lighting up Whairepo Lagoon with videos projected on the waterscreen. Be sure to check out ‘They taking pictures of us in the water’ by Audrey Brown-Pereira & Anonymouz (Faiumu Matthew Salapu), alongside the other amazing videos that are being projected on the waterscreens for Mana Moana 2024.
Āhea | When 6pm–9pm, 27-30 June
Ki hea | Where Whairepo Lagoon
Te utu | Cost Free
Anonymouz is a NZ born Samoan composer and creative producer artist whose explorations involving sound design, music production and video composition can be found across a wide range of industries, with award-winning projects in recorded music, theatre, orchestral, dance, urban, film, tv, radio and new media.
He regularly collaborates with iconic dance company Black Grace as composer for their renowned and innovative performances and installations. He also produced the music and digital sonic branding for Yuki Kihara’s New Zealand showcase, “Paradise Camp” exhibition, at the 2022 Venice Biennale International Arts Festival.
Anonymouz was commissioned to produce the opening sound design at the Auckland Town Hall for the NZ Government’s official apology to Pasifika communities in 2021.
He has composed and produced music for Hollywood feature film soundtracks, produced award winning sound design for acclaimed Pasifika/ Moana poetry show “UPU’, and was commissioned by Auckland City Council to oversee the production of six permanent public art soundscapes for the ‘Te Oro’ Glen Innes Music & Art Centre in Auckland.
Audrey Brown-Pereira’s poem ‘They taking pictures of us in the water’ is an example of the Pasifika community of creatives from hip hop artists, poets and dancers coming together for a common cause to raise the global consciousness on the impacts of climate change on our Pacific people. The collaboration led by Anonymouz is a call and response to Audrey’s poem. It moves from the islands to inner city waterways to the galaxies aiming to connect people on a global level to the urgency of climate change.
It takes a village to raise a child and this version of Audrey Brown-Pereira’s poem ‘They taking pictures of us in the water’ is such an example of the Pasifika community of creatives from hip hop artists, poets and dancers coming together for a common cause to raise the global consciousness on the impacts of climate change on our Pacific people.
The collaboration led by Anonymouz in the form of a call and response to Audrey’s poem is recognition of the power of music and the universal impact of Hip Hop, which in 2023 celebrates its 50th anniversary. This new version of ‘They taking pictures of us in the water’ in the form of poetry, Hip Hop, dance and digital artistry is a creative collaboration of galaxies to connect people on a global level to the urgency of climate change.
Pasifika Voices 2023 features a collection of gifted Pacific poets joined by indigenous artists to create an artistic, insightful, digitally enhanced offering in this curated series of three video poems.
The Mana Moana – Pasifika Voices collection of video works was created to amplify and support the Pacific to drive global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This collection is the third in a series that began in 2021. These poems have been gathered from our Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa to reflect the voices and experiences of our past and present Poets, providing offerings of wisdom and insight for a new generation.
This initiative is supported by Aotearoa New Zealand and coordinated by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Storybox, with the support of Pacific Islands poets and artists, to amplify the Pacific voice at COP28.
