Torika Bolatagici

Torika is a full-time lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne and a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW). Her photographic and video work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including New York, San Francisco, Oakland, Manukau, Auckland, Melbourne, Townsville and Hobart.

Remittances from Fijian workers overseas are the nation’s largest income – exceeding that of tourism and sugar. Fijian bodies have become a valuable export commodity in the increasingly privatised economy of war.