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

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

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