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 a 5x channel video installation, the work centers around singers, Holland Andrews (NYC) and Mere Tokorahi Boynton (Aotearoa/New Zealand) delivering the proposal as an operatic libretto sung side-by-side in English and te reo Māori, along with a 35-person rural children’s choir, astro-choreography by Dr. Tru Paraha (Aotearoa/NZ), and others. Each performance was filmed separately at various locations around the world, including the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, a historic legislative council chamber of the New Zealand Parliament, the former ceremonial chambers of a former US Freemason HQ-come-art museum library, two beaches on opposing sides of the Pacific Ocean, and at a life-sized concrete replica of Stonehenge.