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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2023/02 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2023 | Lingua en

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