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Amrita Hepi
Amrita Hepi
Amrita Hepi’s work has been presented and performed in museums, galleries and Festivals nationally and internationally – including, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Avignon Festival France, Carriageworks, Sydney Opera House, National Gallery of Victoria, Immigration Museum, and 4A. In the past her research and choreographic inquiry has taken her to: diving in Sydney Harbors to map the choreography of eels (Anguilla pursuit, 2021), the transmission of whale songs that hold a family history working with a pacifica choir (po atarau, 2017) the underground canal network of Bangkok (ADAM LAB 2024) Reindeer herding with the sami colleagues/Kin in Norway (A call to dance, 2019 – ongoing), disappearing islands in taipei (Destiny, 2024), choreographing imaginary heists on the british museum/quai de branly with indigenous participants (Research for RINSE 2020 – ongoing) NASA’s worst experiment on dolphins (Dolphin House, 2022). All of this to say her inquiry is broad reaching and begins with how to work with contested histories and the politics of place.