Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

Swimming Against the Tide

open access | peer reviewed
    a cura di
  • 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 Curatorial activismExhibitionsInfrastructureOceaniaAlvaro UrbanoExperimental pedagogiesHydro-theologyProject BanabaWay-findingVeniceHydrocommonsPan-Austro-NesianFrench PolynesiaFilm IndigeounusPeggy GuggenheimEcologies of carePātaka Art+MuseumTidalectic curatorial practicesPacific studiesTsunamisClimate actionClimate ChangeBottled OceanGenderFirst NationsNaadohbii: To Draw WaterPetrit HalilajSamoaParadise CampCosmologyMelbourne MuseumCommunity outreachContemporary artYuki KiharaGender StudiesPacific islandsDocumentaryPaul GauginHawai‘i Triennale The Pacific CenturyArchivesNew GuineaWater beingsDecolonisationTalanoaKaohsiung Museum of Fine Art TaiwanNuclear testingThe Great JourneyIndigenousSustainabilityClimate crisisE Ho’omanu no MoananuiākeaJim VivieaereEtel AdnanSmall islands ecologiesWinnipeg Art GalleryMaterialityQueer ecologiesSeaResistanceExhibitionPacificExhibition-makingMultimedia exhibitionLa Biennale di VeneziaMilitarisationMuseumsFaʻafafine

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2023/02 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2023 | Lingua en