As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Hung-Fei Wu, who is joining the FEELed Lab as a visiting artist and researcher in September 2026.
- Can you tell us about your work/research?
As a curator, researcher, and writer based in Taiwan, I have dedicated the past decade to addressing environmental issues and the social value of art. In the last five years, my focus has evolved to integrate feminist and decolonial perspectives into this work.
Understanding that environmental, social, and gender oppressions are deeply rooted in the intersections of systems of colonialism and modernity, I seek pluralistic perspectives and responses through my curatorial practice. In 2023, I initiated Citing Bar as a collective platform for alternative knowledge. Since then, my practice has slowly shifted toward curatorial methodologies centered on process-oriented formats, co-learning, workshops, and publishing. Through these approaches, I continuously explore how art can serve as an infrastructure of care and justice in a collapsing world, and how it can be grounded in everyday life—tenderly holding and collectivizing subtle agency and marginalized wisdom.
2. Why did you want to work with the FEELed Lab?
Since 2021, I have been deeply inspired by Astrida’s concept of hydrofeminism. The following year, my participation in the FEH summer symposium profoundly expanded my worldview, and these invaluable insights have guided and enriched my subsequent practices with Citing Bar. I am immensely grateful for how The FEELed Lab connects individuals worldwide who are persistently working from the margins to dream of alternative futures.
Currently standing at a watershed moment in my career, I arrive without rigid agendas. Instead, I hope to simply be with the land where the Lab is situated—allowing my body and mind to inhabit this inspiring environment, opening myself up to, and humbly learning from, the wisdom of all living beings here.
3. Why are expansive engagements with environmental issues important?
I hold the aphorism “the unity of knowing and doing” (知行合一) close to my heart. It serves as a constant reminder that my work should not merely produce critical discourse or exhibitions, but embody my values through every choice in everyday life, keeping knowledge and action aligned. The naming of Citing Bar (引用吧) carries a double meaning: while it means “citing” marginalized wisdom, its Mandarin pronunciation also sounds like “drinking” (飲用), suggesting that the connection between our bodies and the environment is buried within the smallest, most routine daily actions.
Self-decolonization is a lifelong practice. Only by reclaiming our capacity to feel and by rebuilding our connections can we move toward true action—and only then can we orient ourselves toward a more sustainable future.
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