Taylour Chang

Taylour Chang is a filmmaker from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi of Japanese, Chinese, and Native Hawaiian descent. She serves as Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement at Bishop Museum and previously served as Curator of Film and Performance at the Honolulu Museum of Art and Director of the Doris Duke Theatre, an arthouse cinema in Honolulu. 

The Untitled Pana O‘ahu Film Project is an extension of her work tending to certain heiau and kaʻānaniʻau on O‘ahu. The work involves cleaning pohaku, weeding out invasives, and at times using a camera to better observe and care for the places. The piece commissioned by COUSIN reflects her evolving relationships with certain pre-contact ceremonial sites that have survived private, public, and military development. The project builds upon the work of a late mentor and photographer Jan Becket who co-edited and compiled Pana O‘ahu: Sacred Stones, Sacred Lands in 1999 to record wahi pana for future generations.