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

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

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