Presented in partnership with this year's Time-Based Art Festival, Te Moana Meridian: How the Prime Meridian Shapes the World, and the Case for Relocating It is an experimental operatic performance "based on a proposal to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution to formally relocate the international Prime Meridian to the South Pacific Ocean." New Zealand-born, Portland-based artist Sam Tam Ham (Sam Hamilton) devised the two-vocalist work, which features "minimalist movement" by artist sidony o’neal, an "intergenerational choir" directed by Crystal Meneses, and a delicate interplay of language—Holland Andrews performs in English, and Mere Tokorahi Boynton in Māori. by Lindsay Costello