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

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

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