Abstract: When redressing archives and collecting histories, the typical approach to curating exhibitions is to use archival sources as the central focus or primary departure point for artists to respond to. Citing Ourselves was an exhibition with a curatorial method that did the exact opposite. Developed collaboratively by its curators, the exhibition’s reference points were instead the intellectual contributions of Pacific artist-activist-scholars to global discourses of climate justice and the critical legacy that Pacific studies has in shaping these. In response to shallow Western citational practices and curatorial methods, Pacific peoples’ visual, environmental, scientific, oratorical, and embodied knowledges were reclaimed and cited as primary sources that inspired the selection and presentation of archival material from the Australian National University Archives, the Pacific Research Archives, and the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. Installed at the RG Menzies Library at the Australian National University, Citing Ourselves was presented as part of the 2023 Australian Association for Pacific Studies conference, which was themed after Julian Aguon’s 2021 influential essay, “To Hell with Drowning.” Citing Ourselves was a collective review of the ongoing challenges faced by Pacific peoples in the era of climate change, as well as the acts initiated by them for cultural self-determination and survival.
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