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

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

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