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

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

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