Latai Taumoepeau (b. Sydney, Australia) is a Punake – body-centred performance artist – whose practice tells the stories of her homelands: the Island Kingdom of Tonga, and her birthplace, the Eora Nation. Her work explores race, class and the female body politic. Dark Continent (2015) is a new performance by Taumoepeau which involves the artist inhabiting the ground floor gallery for the duration of the program and employing spray tanning techniques as an exploration of ritualistic dark skin practices and markings of nationalism in Australia.