Hey there! I’m Hsiao-Chi Chu, a cross-disciplinary practitioner with a focus on art, cultural heritage, migration, refugees, and humanitarian development.
I specialise in bridging humanitarian fieldwork and curatorial practice — building platforms, archives, and cross-regional networks that connect displaced communities’ cultural knowledge with the systems that need to hear it.
CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIUM
- 2026 TISP Symposium | Oulu, Finland (August 21–22, 2026)
Paper: “Reframing Artist Residencies: Sustainable Impact and Institutional Strategies Across Regional Contexts—The Art Site of Railway Warehouse in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.” - North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) 31st Annual Conference | Indiana University Bloomington, USA (June 26–28, 2026)
Paper: “Bodies as Living Archives: Embodied Memory and Anti-Communist Heroes of the Korean War in Taiwan.” - 2025 Res Artis Conference | São Paulo, Brazil (September 18–23, 2025)
Paper: “Reframing Residencies: Sustainable Impact and Institutional Strategies Across Regional Contexts for Artist-in-Residence (AiR),” focusing on the strategic alignment with sustainable development goals (SDGs). - 2025 Africa-Asia 3 ConFest | Dakar, Senegal (June 11-14, 2025)
Round table discussion: “Humanities Across Borders: Indigo Dialogues“ - 2024 Taiwan Art Space Alliance Annual Conference | Taitung, Taiwan (2020)
Role: Workshop Speaker, “Reframing Residencies: Sustainable Impact“
LECTURE & WORKSHOP (SELECTED)
- 2026 PhD Course Lecture | Academic Research and Global Perspectives
- 2025 Roundtable Participant, Humanities Across Borders: Indigo Dialogues, Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge 3, a Conference-Festival, Dakar, Senegal
- 2023 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) | Trainer, Overseas Volunteer Service Team: “The Path to Understanding Refugees.”
- 2023 National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) | Trainer, Overseas Volunteer Service Team: “To Know Yourself and the Cultures and Peoples.”
- 2022 Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) | Brown Bag Speaker: “Follow the River to Explore Cambodian History and its Development. [循著水路探索柬埔寨歷史與其發展]”
- 2021-2025 Refugee Path & Refugee Week Taiwan | Founder & Chief Curator (Annual series of public talks and workshops).
- 2021 TEDxKMU | Speaker: “Crossing the High Walls of Life Through Social Practice Interaction” [在社會實踐的互動中，跨越生命的高牆].
- 2021 International Center for Cultural Studies, NYCU | Master Course Guest Lecturer: “Practice of International Social Workers. [國際行動者的實踐]”
- 2021 TNUA Brown Bag Speaker | “Walking in the Holy Land: Israel and Palestine.”
- 2020 Taiwan Association for Human Rights | Moderator: “Scorched Earth Refugees: Where is my Home in War?” [焦土難民——戰爭何處是我家？].
- 2020 Shin-Le-Yuan Art Space | Speaker: “Diversified Forms of Archive in Museums [Archive 於博物館的多重樣貌] .”
- 2020 Host, Elderly Cultural Rights, Taiwan Art Space Alliance, TASA, Changhua, Taiwan
- 2019 Gallery Hueilang (洄廊) | Speaker: “Boundaries/Appearances: Between Israel-Palestine Conflicts and the Dining Table. [界・現？穿梭在以巴衝突與餐桌間]”
- 2019 Red Thread Bookstore (紅絲線) | Speaker: “Finding a Path for Dialogue: Cultural Arts in Israel and Palestine.”
- 2019 Brilliant Time Bookstore (燦爛時光書店) | Invited Speaker: “Brilliant Palestine: Between Conflicts and the Dining Table. [▲燦爛巴勒斯坦▲ 穿梭在衝突與餐桌之間]
- 2012 Teaching Assistant, Group of Taipei’s Qing Guang Market (Sunny Market), Taipei Community Develop Planner Program, Taiwan
- 2014 Lecturer,_ Voice Maker Workshop_, 2014 Yilan International Children’s Folklore & Folkgame Festival, YiLan, Taiwan
- 2012 Taipei City Government | Teaching Assistant: “Reserve Community Planner Training Program – Qingguang Community.”
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