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

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

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