Hsiao-Chi Chu

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Hsiao-Chi Chu is a inter-disciplinary researcher, curator, and humanitarian practitioner who moves between frontline fieldwork and curatorial practice. Her work weaves together cultural heritage, participatory arts, and humanitarian development, with a practice consistently centred on displacement narratives, social justice, ecological trauma, and the “living archives” of marginalised communities.

With over ten years of experience in international non-profit organisations and human rights advocacy, her fieldwork has taken her across Cambodia, Palestine, Mongolia, and Eswatini. Having witnessed firsthand how geopolitical conflict and social inequality inflict disproportionate and devastating impacts on vulnerable communities, her practice has gradually shifted from emergency humanitarian response toward the long-term advocacy of social justice. Through building platforms, archives, and cross-regional networks, she seeks to transmit the cultural knowledge held by displaced communities to the institutions that most need to listen. She believes that artistic research and curatorial practice are essential pathways for making ecological trauma visible and for cultivating solidarity and resilience.

As a curator and advocate, she founded Refugee Path and Refugee Week Taiwan, promoting inclusive public engagement in Taiwan with forced displacement and other pressing global issues. In 2023, she published her field-based work The Forgotten Heritage in Palestine — a collection of ethnographic observations drawn from years of fieldwork across Palestine, Israel, and Jordan.

She is currently based in the Netherlands, serving as an Affiliated Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Universiteit Leiden, and concurrently as a Researcher at the Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA). She remains committed to connecting cultural practice with social justice, displacement narratives, and sustainable development — advancing social change through cross-disciplinary action.

朱筱琪（Hsiao-Chi Chu），跨領域研究者、策展人與人道救援實踐者，長年穿梭於前線田野與策展現場之間。她的工作交織著文化資產、參與式藝術與人道發展，實踐核心始終圍繞流離失所的敘事、社會正義、生態創傷，以及邊緣社群的「活檔案」（living archives）。

擁有逾十年的國際非營利組織與人權倡議經驗，她的田野足跡遍及柬埔寨、巴勒斯坦、蒙古與史瓦帝尼。親眼見證地緣政治衝突與社會不平等如何對脆弱社群造成不成比例的毀滅性衝擊後，她的實踐逐漸從緊急人道救援轉向對長期社會正義的倡議。透過建立平台、檔案與跨區域網絡，她試圖將流徙社群的文化知識傳遞給亟需聆聽這些聲音的體制。她深信，藝術研究與策展實踐是具象化生態創傷、促成「團結」（solidarity）與「韌性」（resilience）的重要途徑。

作為策展人與倡議者，她創辦「難民路徑」（Refugee Path）與「台灣難民週」(Refugee Week Taiwan)，推動台灣大眾對強迫遷徙等全球議題的包容性參與，並於2023年出版田野著作《遊走邊緣的國度：那些被遺忘的流亡行李——巴勒斯坦》（The Forgotten Heritage in Palestine）。

目前她旅居荷蘭，擔任萊頓大學國際亞洲研究所（IIAS）附屬研究員，同時兼任台灣藝文空間連線（TASA）研究員。並於2026年成立 GRENSGEWEEFD（織事｜Weave the Edge） 工作室，她持續致力於將文化實踐與社會正義、流徙敘事及永續發展緊密連結，以跨域行動推動社會變革。

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