The Habitat series are multi-channel video installations exploring intersections of history, the environment and nation-building within the matrilineal social structures of her birthplace, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. Havini’s Habitat series is an ongoing investigation exploring the legacy of resource extraction and Australia’s fraught relationship in the Pacific.
Habitat: Konawiru, 2016 is a single-channel 16:9, HD, colour, sound, 3:43
Habitat, 2017 is a three-channel, 16:9, HD, colour, 5.1 surround sound, 10:40 mins digital video installation and was originally commissioned for The National by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), adapted for her Pavillon Neuflize OBC residency solo exhibition, Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in 2017.
Habitat, 2018 - 2019 HD, colour, black & white, 5.1 surround sound, 10:33 mins
Presented as part of the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Women’s Wealth project and exhibition, supported by The Australia Council for the Arts. Archival footage was sourced from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), including footage from personal family archives, Moses Havini and Marilyn Taleo Hatukul Havini.