Regenerative Artivism
Regenerative Artivism is a podcast about how Asian women artists, curators, and community organizers use creative, place-based practice to confront social and environmental injustice and shape more livable futures. Drawing on long-term field research in East Asia, with a strong focus on the Greater China region, art historian Meiqin Wang traces how socially engaged and ecological art grows from struggles over land and water, migration and memory, the everyday work of care, among others. Each episode is a guided case study of one practitioner or project, with close attention to process: how collaborations are built, what frictions they face, what kinds of care and maintenance are required, and what regeneration looks like when it is slow, contested, and material.
Season 1 is being released, with six main episodes that moves through watersheds, eco-pedagogy, farms, community building, soil practices, and disaster recovery.
Keywords: socially engaged art; ecological art; ecofeminism; environmental humanities; community art; environmental justice
Regenerative Artivism
Latest Episodes
Ge Huichao: Building Body On&On and Making Access
In this episode, I stay with the Beijing-based curator and producer Ge Huichao 葛慧超, also known as Dew Ge, the founder of Body On&On (身身不息). The episode frames her work through a simple but consequential proposition: access is not an add-on ...
Chen Yun: Curating As Mutual Aid and The Infrastructure of Minor Histories
In this episode, we follow Shanghai-based curator and organizer Chen Yun 陈韵 and ask what happens when curating stops being an exhibition format and becomes a way of living with neighbors under demolition pressure. The story begins in Dinghaiqia...
Hsiao Li-Hung: From Chicken Farm to Creative Ecology on the Tamsui River
Hsiao Li-Hung (蕭麗虹), also known as Margaret Hsiao, built one of Taiwan’s most influential platforms for socially engaged and ecological art by starting with what was available: a repurposed chicken coop on the river’s edge in Zhuwei, near the T...
Prologue: What Makes Regenerative Work Last
In this short prologue for Season 2 of Regenerative Artivism, I introduce the guiding question for Season 2: what makes regenerative artivism last. Staying in the Greater China region, the season shifts from landscapes of repair to the infrastr...
Season 2 Trailer: What Makes Regenerative Work Last?
Season 2 of Regenerative Artivism follows Asian women artists, curators, and community organizers working across the Greater China region to build the social and cultural infrastructures that make care and creativity durable. This trailer previ...