Te Moana Meridian is an interdisciplinary proposal to the United Nations to formally relocate the prime meridian from its current coordinates in London, England, to its geographically and geopolitically antipodean coordinates in the open waters of Te Moananui- a-Kiwa/the South Pacific Ocean.

Where instead of intensifying global divisions, competition, and crisis, it can finally fulfill its promised potential as an equitable, just, and impartial nexus for global reciprocity. A new prime meridian for a new global commons. 

To avoid drowning, become the ocean.

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As an opera, the proposal is presented as a libretto sung side-by-side in the antipodean languages of English and te reo Māori by renowned vocal artist Holland Andrews (NYC) and esteemed Māori performing artist Mere Tokorahi Boynton (Aotearoa/New Zealand, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāi Tūhoe). 

Like a gravitationally-locked binary star, the two singers hold together and drive a monolithic astronavigation-inspired choreography featuring several dancers, a giant kinetic light sculpture, and an intergenerational community choir who sing (quite literally) like the ocean. 

Mixing the polemic with the primal, the work confidently but softly serves as an engine for polymodal contemplation.

A relational vortex of creative speculation, aesthetics, cultural critique, and, like a metaphysical trojan horse, a bonafide global public policy proposal.