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.
#Humanitarian & Development #Migration & Refugee #Social & Climate Justice # MEAL #Curating #Socially Engagement # Art # Museum #Heritage
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.” - 2026 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)
Workshop Speaker: “Reframing Residencies: Sustainable Impact“
LECTURE & WORKSHOP (SELECTED)
- 2026 PhD Course Guest Lecturer, Academic Research and Global Perspectives, PhD. Program in Cultural Heritage and Arts Innovation Studies, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), Taipei, Taiwan
- 2023 Trainer, Overseas Volunteer Service Team: “The Path to Understanding Refugees“, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Hsinchu, Taiwan
- 2023 Trainer, Overseas Volunteer Service Team: “To Know Yourself and the Cultures and Peoples”, National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taichung, Taiwan
- 2022 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]”, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) , Taipei, Taiwan
- 2021-2025 Founder & Chief Curator, Annual series of public talks and workshops, Refugee Path & Refugee Week , Hybrid, Taiwan
- 2021 Speaker, TEDxKMU, “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], Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 2021 Master Course Guest Lecturer, “Practice of International Social Workers. [國際行動者的實踐]”, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)
- 2021 TNUA Brown Bag Speaker, “Walking in the Holy Land: Israel and Palestine.”, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), Taiwan
- 2020 Moderator, “Scorched Earth Refugees: Where is my Home in War?” [焦土難民——戰爭何處是我家？], Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Taiwan
- 2020 Speaker, “Diversified Forms of Archive in Museums [Archive 於博物館的多重樣貌] “, Shin-Le-Yuan Art Space, Taiwan
- 2020 Host, Elderly Cultural Rights, Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA), Changhua, Taiwan
- 2019 Speaker, “Boundaries/Appearances: Between Israel-Palestine Conflicts and the Dining Table. [界・現？穿梭在以巴衝突與餐桌間]”, Gallery Hueilang (洄廊) , Taitung, Taiwan
- 2019 Speaker, “Finding a Path for Dialogue: Cultural Arts in Israel and Palestine.”, Red Thread Bookstore (紅絲線), Changhua, Taiwan
- 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, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2014 Lecturer, Voice Maker Workshop, 2014 Yilan International Children’s Folklore & Folkgame Festival, YiLan, Taiwan