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
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...
Season 1 Closing: What Regeneration Asks of Us
In this short season finale, I reflect on what season 1 has been doing at its core: practicing a slower, more accountable way of paying attention. Rather than chasing crisis headlines, the season lingered with place-based creative work that oft...
Aluaiy Kaumakan: Weaving after the Storm
SummaryEpisode 6 follows the practice of Aluaiy Kaumakan, also known in Chinese as Wu Yuling (武玉玲), a Paiwan (排灣) textile and installation artist from southern Taiwan, and asks how weaving can become a method of cultural survival ...
Song Chen: Soil Artivism, Ritual Repair, and the Mythic Body
SummaryThis episode follows the Shanghai-based artist Song Chen (宋陈), whose practice treats soil not simply as an environmental theme but as a medium, a witness, and a moral problem. Beginning from the premise that urban life is d...
Chen Xiaoyang: Water, Villages, and A Living Museum in South China
SummaryIn this episode, we travel through South China’s river deltas and mountain headwaters around Guangzhou to follow the practice of Chen Xiaoyang (陈晓阳), an artist, visual anthropologist, and museum leader whose work treats art...