↳ Early research development (expected 2027)

↳ Project
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is one of the most remote places in the world, and yet the most visited by tourists. Often for an absurdly short stay of a day or 2. Rapa Nui Revisited invites you to face a history full of unreliable mythmaking and colonial frames. This time, revisited by you.

Rapa Nui has become a symbol of 'exotic extraction', and more recently she figures often in climate change ‘recovery stories’ as an example of how humanity bounces back from ecocide. Unfortunately, both these histories - old and new, are often incomplete, false or propagandistic material to perpetuate a colonist perspective.

Project initiators Abel Enklaar and Nienke Huitenga are intriguied how tourism forces the island's identity to revolve around nostalgia for explorations. Its history of the majestic Moai and birdman culture and the visits of the first European colonizers are retold endlessly, ensuring its survival as a remote, tourism-reliant destination.

However, Rapa Nui is one of the first native communities that recently has regained control over their land, heritage and ecosystem. They are thriving and have a secure democratic structure from which they govern their community. A story that has not yet reached the rest of the world.

↳Credits
Creators Nienke Huitenga & Abel Enklaar
Production Studio ZZZAP