Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

Swimming Against the Tide

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Natalie King - The University of Melbourne, Australia - email
  • Francesca Tarocco - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
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 Experimental pedagogiesCosmologyOceaniaWater beingsHydro-theologyMilitarisationClimate actionDecolonisationExhibitionAlvaro UrbanoClimate ChangeEcologies of careE Ho’omanu no MoananuiākeaMuseumsPacificHydrocommonsCommunity outreachPacific islandsProject BanabaWay-findingExhibition-makingNuclear testingPacific studiesResistanceWinnipeg Art GalleryExhibitionsIndigenousCuratorial activismMaterialityNaadohbii: To Draw WaterPātaka Art+MuseumSamoaPetrit HalilajJim VivieaereEtel AdnanHawai‘i Triennale The Pacific CenturyFirst NationsMultimedia exhibitionPeggy GuggenheimGenderTalanoaNew GuineaFaʻafafineQueer ecologiesSmall islands ecologiesTsunamisParadise CampMelbourne MuseumContemporary artYuki KiharaVeniceFrench PolynesiaGender StudiesFilm IndigeounusDocumentaryKaohsiung Museum of Fine Art TaiwanThe Great JourneyBottled OceanClimate crisisSeaTidalectic curatorial practicesSustainabilityPaul GauginArchivesPan-Austro-NesianInfrastructureLa Biennale di Venezia

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