“Citing Bar” is a platform exploring the environmental humanities, sustainability and feminism. The title takes ‘drinking’ –the mandarin homophonic of ‘citing’– as a ritual of both nurturing the bodies and connecting to a holistic nature, while paying homage to the evolving concept of “politics of citation” to correspond to the core spirit of the project, that is, to acknowledge origins, borders and ordeals, thereby building a sense of solidarity for the purpose of enabling land, the environment, human and more-than-human to prosper together.
While stimulating cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration, ‘citing bar’ wishes to expand multiple forms of knowledge, ecological wisdom and worldviews transmitting transformative energy into this planet that is bombarded by multiple crises and conflicts. Apart from making space for exhibitions, library (reading) and tea-drinking (resting), participatory events including translation, research, writing, reportage and publication will be organized to raise sustained awareness of care and justice.
In 2023, “Citing Bar” featured four sub-projects at Solid Art in Taipei, Taiwan, all revolving around the closely intertwined concepts of rest, healing, immigration, crip ecologies and climate justice. “Potable Paper’’ ,published in early 2024, serves as a summary of the various explorations and learnings throughout the four seasons of the year. Presented in the form of a newspaper to facilitate the flow of information, it also crystallizes as an invitation and an end-of-year blessing to the world.
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