Moon Monolgue: Luna Nullius takes its name from the latin phrase ‘Terra Nullius’ meaning ‘nobody’s land‘. ‘Terra Nullius‘ was a legal concept used to justify European colonization by claiming land was unoccupied and there for available for settlement.

Space exploration as a field is rife with colonial logic. While Luna Nullius is not against space exploration for science discovery - the work seeks to question the ethics of space exploration as well as the earthly politics involved: from questionable animal experiments, moon landing’s relation to the Cold War, to today’s SpaceX mogul Elon Musk and his over-influence in contemporary America’s politics.

The 1 hour two-act performance revisits the moon through an ecofeminist lens telling the story of Moon’s relationship with humanity from her perspective. Originally, inspired by Blue’s conversation with a Thai-Chinese elder on the significance of the Chinese Moon Festival (“Kids these days don’t care for the Moon anymore, not since we’ve stepped on her,”) Luna Nullius urges the audience to contemplate the multilayered patriarchal violence that is inescapable even to a celestial body.