Exposure

Exposure is a visually striking, one-hour in-theatre performance created and performed by two women over 50. The work brings together Branch Nebula’s long-term investigation into endurance, vulnerability and attention with the cultural and conceptual rigor of acclaimed Australian performance artist Latai Taumoepeau.

Developed as a close collaboration, Exposure centres the ageing female body as a site of force, resilience and cultural inscription. The performers submit themselves to sustained physical and environmental pressures, creating a work that unfolds slowly and precisely, asking audiences to witness duration, strain and transformation in real time.

Latai Taumoepeau’s practice, grounded in Tongan cultural knowledge and political performance, brings a distinct perspective to the work. Her engagement with notions of duty, labour, climate, extraction and the body’s relationship to systems of power informs the dramaturgical frame of Exposure without didacticism. The collaboration deepens the work’s cultural and ethical stakes, situating physical endurance within broader questions of responsibility, visibility and survival.