“Citing Bar” is a platform exploring feminist environmental humanities. As a Mandarin homophone for “drinking”, the title “citing” also acts as a ritual of nurturing both the body and the holistic connection to nature. Additionally it pays homage to the evolving concept of the “politics of citation” aligning the core spirit of the project, that is, to acknowledge origins, borders and ordeals, thereby fostering a sense of solidarity for the purpose of enabling the prosperity of land, the environment, human and more-than-human alike. While stimulating cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations, “Citing Bar” aims to broaden the spectrum of knowledge, ecological wisdom and...
Citing Bar Event #5 – compost yo! neuro-emergent (Excerpt from Liya Yu, 2022, Vulnerable Minds: The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies, XXVI) Burden on minorities’ shoulders to initiate these conversations, history mimicking itself in this cruel intimacy between dehumanizer and dehumanized, but also with a glimmer of hope that new insights and tools are available to the dehumanized to turn to the tables around in their favor. As I came out of that building, I became hyperaware of my surroundings, as I would again weeks later during election week, when the whole countryside was whirring and overflowing with...
Citing Bar Event #2 – how she became ice participatory yoga+translation workshop with: Viviola Lww, Wang Jing Shi, Yu-Lun Hsu, Ya Tien Shih, Dr Chai-Ju Shen samantha y shao, Chu Feng-yi, Esther Lu, renyu, Shih-yu Hsu 14:10-16:36, 29 July 2023
Written by Hung-Fei WU Dear Friends, your love is persistence in living. Your love refuses closure. Your love reveals plurality and opens portals. Your love claims the broken beautiful as a site for freedom beyond able-bodied supremacy. Your love shifts paradigms. Your love works with plants. Your love creates the condition of possibility for making the world anew. In the absence of official records, your love remembers.── A Decolonial Feminist Epistemology of the Bed Building on the previous writing that explored non-linear, heterogeneous, and fluid imaginings of time through rest, this opening invites the reader to...
Written by Hung-Fei WU In the face of the complexity of global geopolitics, economics, and ecology interwoven with unprecedented crises, humanity can no longer simply extract discussions of the environment or climate crisis in a compartmentalized manner. Instead, sustainability should be seen as an embodiment of the human spirit of care and justice towards all life on Earth and marginalized communities. Since 2022, I have been engaged in researching the discipline of Feminist Environmental Humanities (FEH) advocated by cultural scholars Jennifer Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis. There is no such difference from the more commonly known Ecofeminism (proposed in 1974 by...
Written by Hung-Fei WU In the autumn of 2022, I once again set foot on the European continent after a hiatus of four years. Apart from hoping to fill the gap caused by the pandemic and reconnecting the bridge between cultures, there was also curiosity about the progress of contemporary art in Europe in the midst of these tumultuous four years since my previous research project, “On the edge of Europe: Exploring the Intersection of Art and Ecology.” How much progress has been made in the discussion of ecological sustainability during this time, and in which directions has it advanced,...
Citing Bar II – Himali Singh Soin Text: Feng-Yi Chu Solid Art’s “Citing Bar” introduces its second project featuring artist Himali Singh Soin with two of her recent series “As Grand As What” and “we are opposite like that”. Both works encompass a diverse range of mediums, including video, artist books, sound installations, performances, photographic works, and textiles. This article, in collaboration with artist Lin Yi-Chun, echoes the concept of “Citing Bar” by designing four spirituous libations based on four key concepts related to Himali’s art. While dissecting Himali’s artistic practice, this article further explores how and why these four...
Jennifer Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis We propose that feminist studies are particularly well-situated to analyse the paradox of what ‘we humans’ want as we gaze into the eyes of planetary catastrophe. The contributions in the special issue evoke tensions between a capitalist imperative to consume, activist calls for resistance, and queer feminist figurations of sex and longing. Asking in turn what we as editors want from the project of feminist environmental humanities, we respond: (1) we want to spark new relations between desire and demand from within environmental crisis; (2) we want a fulsomely feminist environmental humanities; (3) we want...
Holly Pester This essay is the product of thinking, researching and singing lullabies. As a practitioner-researcher in Hubbub, Holly Pester led a series of workshops that experimentally and collaboratively explored lullabies through conversation and improvised song. This led to an expanded project where Holly invited artists and musicians to collaborate on a col-lection of new lullabies, created through friendship and improvisation. The thoughts and provocations within this chapter represent the politics and ideas that have motivated this project. Keywords: Care, Creative criticism, Lullaby, Narrative, Protest song, Reproductive work Copyright Pester, H. (2016). Songs of Rest: An Intervention in the Complex...
This compendium takes up a series of concepts as a means to think them newly from the contemporary time and place of “the bed,” where the bed is a temporal and geographical (non)location central to sick and disabled queer (SDQ) bodies and life. Excerpted from a larger project-in-progress, this article, in part, proceeds from Lugones’s 1987 essay “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception.” It strives toward articulating a decolonial feminist epistemology that is informed by queer of color, sick and disabled phenomenology and material life. We are compelled by what we might name as the work of queering and the work...
Citing Bar I – Bear Hole Text: Bo-Yi Shen There is no start or end, only the process of a fall, diving infinitely towards a ground being stripped of its foundation. The worldly body gradually blends into oceans, deserts, volcanos, the sky, and the wilderness. The body separates from the self in unceasing motion, as eyesight begins to unravel, the ears fade into silence, and the skin touches the planets, its membrane expanding steadily yet explosively, feeling the rough, intricate, fierce, and steady energy of physical matter. The self is constantly lost in the fall as you strive to pick...