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

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

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