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

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

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