Regenerative Artivism

About 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. The podcast has completed Seasons 1 and 2 and is currently releasing Season 3, with new episodes published from September through December 2026. Keywords: socially engaged art; ecological art; ecofeminism; environmental humanities; community art; environmental justice

Publisher

Meiqin Wang

Category

arts · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Dec 2025

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026

   Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung: The Seated Girl Who Would Not Disappear

   This episode centers on Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung, the Korean wife-and-husband artist team who created Statue of Peace, one of the most visible and contested public memorials in contemporary East Asia. Beginning with the seated girl in hanbok, the episode traces how the sculpture emerged from the long-running Wednesday Demonstrations in Seoul and became a public form of feminist memory, civic refusal, and historical accountability. Through close formal analysis, the episode considers the...

2. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Shimada Yoshiko: The Silenced Body That Interrupts Nationalist Space

   This episode examines the work of Japanese artist Shimada Yoshiko, whose practice has spent more than three decades confronting Japanese imperialism, wartime responsibility, feminism, and historical memory. Beginning with my visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where Shimada performed Being a Statue of a Japanese Comfort Woman, I consider how her work intervenes in spaces and images shaped by official memory. The episode traces her formative years at Scripps College, her return to a highly gend...

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Tomiyama Taeko: Antiwar Memory and the Ghosts of Empire

   This episode turns to Japanese artist Tomiyama Taeko, whose century-long life and artistic practice confronted the unresolved histories of Japanese empire, war responsibility, colonial violence, forced labor, military sexual slavery, and postwar denial. Beginning with her youth in Dalian and Harbin in Japanese-controlled Manchuria, the episode traces how Tomiyama transformed personal memory into a lifelong practice of anti-imperial reckoning. Her early mining works exposed the bodily cost of ...

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