Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

Swimming Against the Tide

open access | peer reviewed
Abstract

This issue of Lagoonscapes binds thinkers, scholars, artists, activists, policymakers and curators from Venice and the Pacific in a holistic way, in dialogue and with converging views and vantage points, discussing human/non-human relationships, cross-disciplinary dialogues and ancestral epistemologies. First-hand knowledge and experiences shift the perspective from rigid academic and institutional structures to personal ruminations on the injuries of colonisation. One of the aims of this special issue of Lagoonscapes is to decentralise and provincialise such ‘Man-as-human’ as the subject/object of inquiry, and thus counter and reframe established geographies, histories and temporalities.

Keywords New Guinea • French Polynesia • Talanoa • Petrit Halilaj • Alvaro Urbano • Samoa • Melbourne Museum • Nuclear testing • Documentary • Yuki Kihara • Hydro-theology • Naadohbii: To Draw Water • Faʻafafine • Peggy Guggenheim • Way-finding • Project Banaba • Water beings • E Ho’omanu no Moananuiākea • Gender Studies • Pacific islands • Queer ecologies • Decolonisation • Paradise Camp • Winnipeg Art Gallery • Archives • Exhibition-making • Climate crisis • La Biennale di Venezia • Bottled Ocean • Militarisation • Infrastructure • Museums • Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art Taiwan • Sea • Curatorial activism • Gender • Resistance • The Great Journey • Materiality • Community outreach • Pan-Austro-Nesian • Ecologies of care • Tidalectic curatorial practices • Paul Gaugin • Oceania • Experimental pedagogies • Sustainability • Contemporary art • Etel Adnan • Tsunamis • Pacific studies • Film Indigeounus • Multimedia exhibition • Hydrocommons • Exhibitions • Pātaka Art+Museum • Jim Vivieaere • Small islands ecologies • Climate Change • Pacific • Climate action • Hawai‘i Triennale The Pacific Century • Exhibition • Indigenous • First Nations • Venice • Cosmology

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2023/02 | Published Dec. 22, 2023 | Language en

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