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

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

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