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 Alvaro UrbanoPeggy GuggenheimSeaHawai‘i Triennale The Pacific CenturyIndigenousNaadohbii: To Draw WaterSustainabilityOceaniaEtel AdnanEcologies of careHydro-theologyBottled OceanMilitarisationPan-Austro-NesianDocumentaryPātaka Art+MuseumE Ho’omanu no MoananuiākeaExhibitionsArchivesContemporary artHydrocommonsCuratorial activismInfrastructurePetrit HalilajWater beingsThe Great JourneyWinnipeg Art GalleryMaterialityYuki KiharaResistanceClimate crisisClimate actionExhibitionDecolonisationPacific studiesSamoaFrench PolynesiaGender StudiesNew GuineaPacific islandsTidalectic curatorial practicesTalanoaClimate ChangeCosmologyVeniceLa Biennale di VeneziaQueer ecologiesPaul GauginFilm IndigeounusWay-findingMelbourne MuseumCommunity outreachExperimental pedagogiesNuclear testingProject BanabaGenderParadise CampSmall islands ecologiesFirst NationsMuseumsFaʻafafineJim VivieaereKaohsiung Museum of Fine Art TaiwanExhibition-makingMultimedia exhibitionPacificTsunamis

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