Journal | Lagoonscapes
Monographic journal issue | 3 | 2 | 2023

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 ExhibitionsInfrastructurePaul GauginOceaniaTalanoaProject BanabaTidalectic curatorial practicesWinnipeg Art GalleryLa Biennale di VeneziaMilitarisationPacific studiesWater beingsEtel AdnanClimate actionHydro-theologyPetrit HalilajBottled OceanNaadohbii: To Draw WaterQueer ecologiesFilm IndigeounusPacificIndigenousMuseumsSamoaCuratorial activismExhibitionYuki KiharaResistanceEcologies of careMelbourne MuseumDecolonisationFirst NationsFrench PolynesiaPacific islandsPan-Austro-NesianArchivesMultimedia exhibitionParadise CampPātaka Art+MuseumSustainabilityVeniceJim VivieaereExperimental pedagogiesClimate crisisGenderGender StudiesHydrocommonsSeaKaohsiung Museum of Fine Art TaiwanThe Great JourneyCosmologyE Ho’omanu no MoananuiākeaContemporary artMaterialityFaʻafafineWay-findingClimate ChangeSmall islands ecologiesExhibition-makingHawai‘i Triennale The Pacific CenturyNew GuineaTsunamisAlvaro UrbanoCommunity outreachPeggy GuggenheimDocumentaryNuclear testing

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