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

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

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