The Body as Archive Born in 1972 within the Eora Nation of Sydney, Australia, Latai Taumoepeau operates through a practice that is deeply rooted in her Tongan and Australian heritage. She identifies as a punake, a term from her ancestral culture describing an artist who uses the body as a medium for poetry, song, and choreography. Her work does not merely exist in galleries; it inhabably occupies space through durational performance,…