Pōʻele Wai (As The Water Darkens) is a short film about a weaver who experiences a transformation when they find out their drinking water have been poisoned by fuel leaking into O‘ahu’s watersheds.
The film premiered at the Hawai’i International Film Festival and won an Honorable Mention for Best Short Film Made in Hawai’i, was screened at Imagining Indigenous Cinema: New Voices, New Visions at the Hammer Museum, and and is currently touring at Film Festivals.
Kai-Hai (2021 - 2023, ongoing)
Kai 海 Hai is an ongoing series of virtual and augmented reality installations that remix Transpacific ancestral, personal, and speculative narratives from Polynesia to East Asia to explore environmental issues, indigenous and immigrant stories, and diaspora across the Pacific Ocean. In collaboration with Qianqian Ye.
Kai-Hai has been shown at Pack Systems in Seoul, epoch.gallery, Grow Magazine, the Gray Area Festival, BAMPFA, and others. New work from Kai 海 Hai will be shown at the Mandeville Art Gallery in the summer, and at the SFAC galleries in the Fall of 2023.
Cyanovisions (2019-2020)
Cyanovisions is a short speculative fiction film co-directed by Tiare Ribeaux and Jody Stillwater. Set in the indeterminate future, Cyanovisions highlights the entanglements and parallels between both humans and cyanobacteria, and their capacities to both create and destroy life. Speculative mutualisms of the future are revealed showing humans living in symbiosis with cyanobacteria and other organisms in scenarios that are peaceful, provocative, and surreal. Iterations of this project have been shown at Lux Aeterna, the special exhibition curated by Art Center Nabi for ISEA2019 in Gwangju, Korea, Intersections for Leonardo’s 50th Anniversary, the Imagine Science Film Festival, and more.
A short film and multi-site exhibition that took place across Hawai’i State Art Museum and Aupuni Space in 2022. Kānaka Maoli and O’ahu-based artists exhibited multimedia works that emphasized the sacredness of wai (water), and the rainforests that hold our watersheds. The short film Ulu Kupu portrays a performance of harvesting and processing plants/materials from the 'āina (land, all that feeds) and our connection to the land as extensions of our bodies.
Saturn Risin9 (2021-2023, ongoing)
Saturn Risin9 is a poetically told dance and documentary film told using fantastic imagery and non-linear narrative. Transgenesis follows Saturn, a non-binary black performance artist in the Bay diaspora, and their journey as a which follows a transformational arc of healing and rising up from environmental and systemic racism to find collective empowerment. Co-directed by Tiare Ribeaux and Jody Stillwater
Supported by ZERO1 Art+Technology Network, Lenape Creative Group, and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Pele and Plastiglomerate, (2020 - 2021)
Pele and Plastiglomerate is a 2-channel video installation with multimedia components, and an exhibition online. It considers the mediation of Hawai’i Island via technological monitoring, and Plastiglomerate. The lava rocks on Hawai’i are associated with the volcano goddess Pelehonuamea and her sacred body. As researchers + geologists have mostly focused on Plastiglomerate as being a marker of the Anthropocene, they have never considered the spiritual connections it has to kānaka maoli. The project has been shown as part of the Misava Exhibition internationally, as well as at CONTACT Hawai’i where it premiered.
Bioplastics Cookbook for Ritual Healing from Petrochemical Landscapes (2019 - 2020, ongoing)
This online cookbook + storybook refigures materials and methods for radically remaking the historically dominant petrochemically derived plastic materials that we use in our everyday lives… for reclaiming, rebuilding, and healing from the extractive and destructive processes of techno-capitalism. This project was awarded with a web residency by Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Emergent Tributaries (2018)
Emergent Tributaries was an exhibition and culmination of an artist fellowship for Ribeaux with the American Arts Incubator in Kyiv, Ukraine in partnership with IZOLYATSIA. It was an international cultural exchange initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs that is administered by ZERO1.
Shown at IZOLYATSIA
Mohala (2021)
Mohala traces movements of hula remembered and performed in VR, fragments of choreography captured as a 3D representation that bridges geographies and a spectrum of time. This piece represents a tribute to the thriving practice of Hula and a connection to the greater collective living memory of traditional movement, while bridging into new mediums of form. Part of Frameworld
Glimpses of a Revolution (2011-2014)
A short documentary filmed in and around Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. Meditative, celebratory, and haunting glimpses into the "January 25th Revolution" that took place in and around Tahrir Square before and after the fall of Hosni Mubarak which in addition to protests in Tunisia sparked the Arab Spring. It was filmed between January 25 2011 - February 30th 2011.
"Don't Panic" Short Film and Jumpsuit Series (2014) - in collaboration with Payam Imani
Co-designed and co-directed a fashion film based on a sci-fi narrative and filmed during Fashion Week (Spring) 2014 at various locations in Tokyo, Japan
Costume Design for "Intensities" for Surabhi Saraf (2016)
Designed costumes in collaboration with Surabhi Saraf for her single channel video installation Intensities, shown at Mills College Art Museum, a part of the Art + Process + Ideas (A+P+I) Program
Mineral Ghosts + Minerals of Technology - Center for Emotional Materiality (2018)
During her residency at the Center for Emotional Materiality at Southern Exposure in SF, she conducted research on the minerals that enable our technological devices, which culminated in texts to accompany an installation of raw technology minerals in collaboration with Surabhi Saraf and Sophia Wang. She also created a guided visualization to re-connect our bodies to the mineral states and geological origins of our technologies.
Onion Routing AR Walking TOR (2017-2018)
Onion Routing AR Walking TOR was a participatory interpretation of the inner workings of onion routing and the TOR browser using augmented reality and location-based virtual markers. Geolocated models representing servers as waypoints formed a simulation of onion routing where the user represents a programmatically routed data packet.
Shown at Radical Networks and Obfuscating Ownership: Privacy & Sousveillance
REE_minder Cases are 3D printed phone cases that use designs based on topology maps of the Bayan Obo Mining District, China, where the largest deposits of the world's Rare Earth Elements (REE) are found and sourced.
Shown at ISEA2016 Hong Kong, International Symposium for Electronic Art; part of the ongoing work Conversation Pieces: REEs
Infrastructure Fabrics (2015-2016)
Infrastructure Fabrics was an exploration of imagery, textile designs and garments that translate and remix publicly shared pictures of infrastructures related to data flow, signal traffic and global networks using machine learning and texture synthesis techniques based on AI neural networks.
Shown at the Deep Dream Symposium
"Cout Gif" Collection (2015)
Textile designer and seamstress for a small line of clothing with unique gif-based fabric designs created with gifSlap - a software written by Donald Hanson. These images were made into textile designs and digitally printed, a re-sourcing of internet culture into couture. Shown at Silicon Valley Fashion Week 2015 with HAH Couture.
Costume Design for Signal Works (2015) for Elia Vargas
Designed unique burlap, doe suede, cotton, and rope costumes for a video work and ongoing collaborative project Signal Works, led by Elia Vargas
Fiume Clothing Line (2005-2009)
Designer + seamstress for a line of playful couture inspired by rainfall and the natural geological features it creates - rivers and riverbeds, waterfalls, and carved ocean cliffs, taking inspiration from the island of O’ahu where these were designed and constructed.
Tiare Ribeaux is a Kanaka 'Ōiwi filmmaker, artist and creative producer based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Her work involves a magical realist exploration of spirituality, labor, and the natural environment, drawing upon the structure of dreamworlds and Hawaiian cosmology to critique both social and ecological imbalances. Her films use visual narrative storytelling and components of speculative fiction and fantasy to reimagine both our present realities and future trajectories of lineage, queerness, place and belonging. Her work often combines with installation elements to create immersive and expanded media experiences. As a curator and producer, she founded B4BEL4B Gallery in 2014 as a platform and community space to prioritize underrepresented + queer artists in media arts, where she was the artistic director for 8 years.
She has shown work both nationally and internationally, and has won numerous grants and awards for her artistic leadership including the Sundance Native Lab Fellowship and Indigenous Film Fund, two New and Experimental Works Grants from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the Building Demand for the Arts Grant from the Doris Duke Foundation, and the Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund, among others.