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

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

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