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

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

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