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

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

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