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

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

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