The Nkisi Netting Group in Papua New Guinea convened a cohort of technologists from Abya Yala, the Africas and Southeast Asia in Melanesia to prototype “moving at the speed of trust”.

Often mythologized on account of its endemic potency, Papua New Guinea embodies the encryption definitive of the relational ecosystems across the Mango Belt and Tamarind Road. This group is anchored by a foundational velocity of moving at the speed of trust–divesting from programmed impulses towards control and predictive logic(s). Informed by the region’s oceanic contracts of eco-relational adaptivity, responsiveness, and reciprocity, this gathering invited the Netting Groups’ participants to weave the foundation for transmediale’s tropical turns and recursive metaphors through organic protocols.

The participants of the Pasifika Netting Group were film producer and festival director of the Matatu Film Lab Patience Katsushabe, cyber-documentarian Maahleek, sound artist KMRU, sonic-papaya-researcher Merv Espina, with Local Curriculum Designer (LCD) Lynda Irai, as well as transmediale 2026 curators Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa, working alongside an expansive network of community practitioners.

The gathering Pasifika was realised in collaboration with the Pan-African Solidarity School (PASS), with support from the Mellon Foundation.