Meghann Riepenhoff joins Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here, Cape Farewell’s ninth expedition to the Marshall Islands, offering first-hand experience of climate change displacement and massive nuclear destruction.
The Marshalls, with an average height of 6 feet above sea level, are located in the centre of the Pacific Ocean amidst water that is rising at an accelerating rate. Marshallese resilience and creativity in response to nuclear testing and the climate crisis is an inspiration to the global community that created — and struggles to contain – these same demons. Marshallese atolls and their remarkable people tell an existential story that is deeply relevant to all of humanity.
Riepenhoff is part of a powerful team of 30 international, Oceanian, and Marshallese artists, writers, scientists, and filmmakers who will witness this crucial example of our human-altered world and create narratives in art, film, words and music that offer insight to our present human crises and resilient pathways forward.
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