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, and he used to work 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. He hence develops his curatorial style by applying sociological thinking. He was invited to be the curator for a collateral event of the 2020 Taiwan Biennial, and his exhibition of 2019, "Relocating Divinity: Being an Atheistic Theist," was nominated for Taishin Art Award of the season. Feng-yi's 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
2021
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Dear Block Chen 親愛的博拉克·陳（Nov 20–Jan 15 @ Solid Art, Taipei）
2020
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（Nov 11–Dec 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；Oct 24–Nov 15 @ Waley Art, Taipei）
2019
Relocating Divinity: Being an Atheistic Theist
重返神性：作為一位無神論的有神論者（Nov 2–Dec 1 @ Waley Art, Taipei）
Challenges in the Republic: 2019 The 6th Suwon International Photo Festival｜Taiwan Exhibition
共和之後：2019 年第六屆南韓水原國際攝影節台灣策展單元（Nov 1–Nov 10 @ Suwon, South Korea）
Myth of Sanctification: Politics, Body Aesthetics, and Nationalist Dominion
聖化的迷思：政治、身體美學、國族統制（Aug 24–Aug 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 (Feb 17–Mar 18 @ 11 exhibition sites in Taipei)
REViEWS 評論
〈情感共嗚下的邊界消解與成形：評陳庭榕《諧波失真》〉，數位荒原（2021 / 10 / 27）。
〈思考政治化集體歉疚的可能：評吳其育《封閉世界的設定集》〉，今藝術&投資 9月號 348期（2021 / 9 / 1）。
〈不丹當代藝術的現代性折衝：專訪丹之寶藝廊〉In Nation’s Resistance to Modernity: Bhutan’s Contemporary Art，數位荒原（2021 / 5 / 31）。
〈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）（本文為國家文化藝術基金會與文心藝術基金會「現象書寫-視覺藝評」專案）。
〈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）（本文為國家文化藝術基金會與文心藝術基金會「現象書寫-視覺藝評」專案）。
〈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）。
〈《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）（本文為國家文化藝術基金會與文心藝術基金會「現象書寫-視覺藝評」專案）。
〈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）。
〈你不曾去過的「台灣聖山」〉，報導者（2020 / 3 / 1）。
〈人類文明意志的延伸：吳權倫的「馴國」〉，典藏 Artouch.com（2019 / 11 / 11）。
〈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 (selected)
Chu F (2021) Chinese and Taiwanese Identities in Taiwan as Epistemic Challengers. International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 4(2), 265–288. [link]
Chu F (2021) Gaia and the Tiryagyoni Domain: Review on 2020 Taipei Biennial and 2020 Taiwan Biennial (paper presented in 2021 Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Conference)
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]
