OUR ARTISTS

The CONJAH artists’ pantheon of practice expands through an array of mediums; Contemporary Theatre, Performance, Character/Entity-Performance, Cultural Learning, various Street Dances and Cultures, Physical Theatre, Light Design, Costume Design, Film, Sound Design, Photography, Facilitation and Digital Art collaborations.

With a commitment to collaborative partnership, CONJAH fosters a environment where each collaborative artist retains creative agency and where relationship is the gathering point for developing performance work.

CO-DIRECTED

Photography: Frances Carter

CONJAH, co-directed in partnership by Jahra Wasasala and ooshcon, embody an intersection of Fijian/Pākeha and Samoan/Pākeha heritage, with Jahra hailing from the villages of Sorokoba, Ba and Naduri, Macuata in Fiji, and ooshcon hailing from the villages of Lalomanu and Vailele in Samoa.
Jahra is born and raised on the unceded Ngati Whatua whenua of Tāmaki Makaurau, and Ooshcon is born and raised on the unceded whenua of the Taranaki Whānui ki Te Ūpoko o Te Ika whenua of the Te Awa Kairangi region (Aotearoa/New Zealand). Jahra and ooshcon currently live and work on the unceded lands, skies and waterways of Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Central Kulin Nation, in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia.

Jahra and ooshcon intertwine their solo bodies of work based within non-human phenomena, cultural mapping, reimagined futures, and emotional rigor to coalesce into a shared practice. Jahra and ooshcon are deeply informed in an ever-learning relationship with their cultures and social-mapping. CONJAH’s approach, affectionately dubbed 'Oceanic Terror-fi, draws from and contributes to an everlasting lineage of Indigenous Future-Mythos and a collective movement towards imagination and resistance.