FENG-YI CHU
Art Curator / Researcher ()
Feng-yi Chu 朱峯誼 obtained his PhD in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. His research interests focus on theories of identity, nationalism, social discourses and political ideologies. He worked as the programme convener for Taiwan Studies Programme at St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, and as postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Lately he shifts his research interests in religious sociology, and in the meanwhile cultivates his profile as an art curator. His recent curatorial projects include "Myth of Sanctification" (Kathmandu, Nepal, 2019), "Challenges in the Republic: The 6th Suwon International Photo Festival｜Taiwan Exhibition" (Suwon City, South Korea, 2019), “Relocating Divinity: Being an Atheistic Theist,” (Waley Art, Taipei, 2019), "Zoo of Inverted Forms: The Ultimate Other for Imagining Humanity" (Collateral Event of 2020 Taiwan Biennial), and "Cross-Dimensions Transmission: The Synchronic Encounters between Art, Technology and Mysticism" (Kaohsiung Main Public Library, 2020).
EDUCATION
2016 / Ph.D. in Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2007 / M.A. in Department of Journalism, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
2006 / M.A. in Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
2002 / B.A. in Department of Agriculture Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
MAJOR EXPERIENCES
2019 – | Independent Art Curator & Researcher
2017 – 2019 | Postdoctoral Researcher / Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica / Taiwan
2014 – 2015| Program Convener / Taiwan Studies Program, University of Oxford / UK
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020
November
11th
October
24th
Cross-Dimensions Transmition: The Synchronic Encounters
between Art, Technology and Mysticism
跨維度傳導：藝術、科技、神秘主義的共時相會
11/11–12/6 @ 高雄市立圖書館總館
Zoo of Inverted Forms: The Ultimate Other for Imagining Humanity (Collateral Event of 2020 Taiwan Biennial)
倒置理型動物園：想像人性的終極他者（2020 台灣美術雙年展平行展）
10/24–11/15 @ Waley Art, Taipei
2019
November
2nd
November
1st
August
26
February
17
Relocating Divinity: Being an Atheistic Theist
重返神性：作為一位無神論的有神論者
11/2–12/1 @ Waley Art, Taipei
Challenges in the Republic: 2019 The 6th Suwon International Photo Festival｜Taiwan Exhibition
11/1–11/10 @ Suwon, South Korea
Myth of Sanctification: Politics, Body Aesthetics, and Nationalist Dominion
8/24–8/31 @ NexUs Culture Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
GDR Service—Annulling good-nation-good-people-happy-proud-citizen identity (undergo the procedure!); Yao Jui-lan Solo Exhibition
2/17–3/18 @ 11 exhibition sites in Taipei
評論
朱峯誼，〈我們從未「從未現代過」：評2020台北雙年展《你我不住在同一星球上》（上）〉，報導者（2021 / 3 / 21）。
朱峯誼，〈我們從未「從未現代過」：評2020台北雙年展《你我不住在同一星球上》（下）〉，報導者（2021 / 3 / 21）。
朱峯誼，〈液態現代性加速下的訊息重組：評《液態之愛》〉，數位荒原（2021 / 1 / 28）。
朱峯誼，〈《超自然神樂乩》的求仙之旅：論文化情感與意義的劇場再現〉，表演藝術評論台（2020 / 8 / 20）。
朱峯誼，〈自經驗至論述修補人類與自然的關係：當代藝術談另類醫療的時代意義〉，藝術觀點 81 期，頁50–57（2020 / 4 / 1）。
朱峯誼，〈你不曾去過的「台灣聖山」〉，報導者（2020 / 3 / 1）。
朱峯誼，〈人類文明意志的延伸：吳權倫的「馴國」〉，典藏 Artouch.com（2019 / 11 / 11）。
朱峯誼，〈為何經歷皇民化的台灣人支持國民黨：價值競合的台灣政治〉，巷仔口社會學（2018 / 4 / 3）。
Chu F (2016) "Book Review: The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future by Prasenjit Duara". Oxford Comparative Criticism & Translation (OCCT) (2016 / 1 / 20).
ACADEMIC PAPERS
Chu F (2016) Diverse Facets in Identities and Party Affiliations of Native Taiwanese Elders. Issues and Studies 52 (3). [link]
Chu F (2016) Benevolent self vs. malignant other: The East-West antagonistic narrative of Taiwanese people’s Chinese identity. Berliner China-Hefte - Chinese History and Society, 47,37–55. [link]
Chu F (2016) Duelling Identities: Dimensions of Dual Identity in Contemporary Taiwan. DPhil thesis in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. [link]
