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

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

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