Project Banaba is a touring exhibition by artist and scholar Katerina Teaiwa first commissioned by Carriageworks on Gadigal land, Sydney, in 2017. The multimedia installation is curated by lead curator Yuki Kihara working in close partnership with a locally-engaged curator. 

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It combines textiles, film, photographs, archival texts and the voices of Banaban scholars, artists, activists, leaders, and colonial, mining and agricultural officials. 

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The story covers almost a century of phosphate mining, protest, Indigenous displacement, superphosphate fertiliser production, and the consumption and decimation of this small but globally valuable Pacific island.