Lagoonscapes The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

Rivista | Lagoonscapes
Fascicolo monografico | 3 | 2 | 2023

Swimming Against the Tide

open access | peer reviewed
    a cura di
  • Natalie King - The University of Melbourne, Australia - email
  • Francesca Tarocco - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
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 ArchivesNew GuineaClimate crisisTidalectic curatorial practicesSustainabilityOceaniaBottled OceanMelbourne MuseumExhibitionFilm IndigeounusGenderGender StudiesTsunamisAlvaro UrbanoFaʻafafineHydro-theologyMuseumsResistancePacific studiesInfrastructureJim VivieaerePetrit HalilajQueer ecologiesYuki KiharaProject BanabaDecolonisationCuratorial activismPan-Austro-NesianClimate ChangeCosmologySeaSmall islands ecologiesNaadohbii: To Draw WaterHydrocommonsParadise CampKaohsiung Museum of Fine Art TaiwanThe Great JourneyTalanoaWater beingsE Ho’omanu no MoananuiākeaPeggy GuggenheimExhibition-makingNuclear testingDocumentaryIndigenousPacific islandsSamoaMultimedia exhibitionExhibitionsWinnipeg Art GalleryMaterialityWay-findingEtel AdnanPacificEcologies of careMilitarisationLa Biennale di VeneziaExperimental pedagogiesFrench PolynesiaCommunity outreachFirst NationsClimate actionContemporary artHawai‘i Triennale The Pacific CenturyPātaka Art+MuseumVenicePaul Gaugin

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