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, and the everyday work of care. 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, and what regeneration looks like when it is slow, contested, and material. Season 1 unfolds across six biweekly episodes, moving through watersheds, farms, soil practices, disaster recovery, and feminist and indigenous forms of repair.
Keywords: socially engaged art; ecological art; ecofeminism; environmental humanities; community art; environmental justice
Regenerative Artivism
Season 2 Trailer: What Makes Regenerative Work Last?
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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 previews six episodes that move from northern Taiwan to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Macau, and Quanzhou, tracing how regenerative practice takes shape through long-term cultural ecologies, mutual-aid and neighborhood archiving, disability-led performance platforms, community institutions, and storytelling as a technology of care.
Release schedule: the season 2 introduction arrives on May 5, 2026, followed by season 2, episode 1 on May 19, 2026. If you are not already following the show, please subscribe so you do not miss the new season.
Keywords: Regenerative Artivism, socially engaged art, ecological art, environmental humanities, Asian women, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Macau, Quanzhou, care, infrastructure, mutual aid, community archives, disability arts, access, storytelling, ecological grief, heritage regeneration
My academic website: http://csun.academia.edu/MeiqinWang
Regenerative Artivism returns on April 21, 2026, with this trailer. The Season 2 introduction follows on May 5, and the first episode arrives on May 19.
This season asks: what makes regenerative work last?
Across six episodes, we follow women who build the social and cultural infrastructures that make care and creativity durable. We begin north of Taipei with Hsiao Li-Hung and Bamboo Curtain Studio, where an art residency grows into a long-term creative ecology. Then we move to Shanghai with curator Chen Yun, where a rented apartment becomes mutual aid and a way of surviving demolition pressure.
From there, we go to Beijing with Ge Huichao, where access becomes aesthetics through disability-led performance platforms, and then to Guangzhou with Liu Yang, where a contemporary art museum learns to behave like a neighborhood commons inside an urban village.
In Macau, we enter Debbie Tai’s zero distance playback theatre, where storytelling becomes a technology of care for ecological grief and urban loss. And we close in Quanzhou with Zheng Dazhen on West Street, asking when regeneration sustains local life, and when it slides into branding and curated nostalgia.
Make sure you’re following the show, and I’ll meet you on April 21.