吳瑪悧

Professor of Graduate Institute of Transdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan.

Graduated from National Art Academy Düsseldorf, Germany, Wu developed an interest in socially engaged art practice. Her work Awaken in Your Skin (2000-2004) cooperated with the ‘Playing Cloth Workshop’ (玩布工作坊), Taipei Awakening Association, using the concept of subversive stitching to explore women’s life.

More recently, Wu’s work has taken an eco-feminist turn in response to the impact of globalization, focusing on the urban environment and development issues. By the River, on the River, of the River (2006) invited the public to trace four rivers surround Taipei; Taipei Tomorrow as a Lake Again (2008) addressed the survival strategies of a city facing global warming; and Art as Environment: A Cultural Action on Plum Tree Creek (2010-2012) explored the possibilities of creating a sustainable village. In 2013 the Plum Tree Creek project won the Taishin Visual Arts Award. Wu is also a recipient of National Award for Arts in 2016. She has co-curated the 11th Taipei Biennial ‘Post-Nature: Museum as an Eco-System’ in 2018.

Research focus: contemporary art, environmental art, feminist art, public art and social practice.

• 2021-2023

  3490 Etude: A Public Art Project of Linkou Social Housing, co-curator, Linkou, Taipei New City, Taiwan

• 2020

  Cijin Pún-Sū, Performance Lecture, Cijin, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2018

  Post-Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem, co-curator of the 11th Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2016-

  Cijin’s Tongue, an ongoing community project, Cijin, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2015-2016

  X Green, a Public Art Project of Taipei First Girls’ High School, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2015

  A Different Light, a Public Art Project of Taiwan Power Co., Taipei, Taiwan

• 2015

  Stories of Paper Cutting, Soulangh Children’s Museum of Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

• 2014

  Art as Social Exchange, Hong Kong/Taiwan Exchange, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, AVA, HKBU, Hong Kong, China; The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2014

  Kuang-Tsai Action: a wetland as a museum, public art project at Linbien, Pintung, Taiwan

• 2010-2012

  Art as Environment: a cultural action at the Plum Tree Creek, Zhu-Wei, Taiwan

• 2007

  Art as Environment: a cultural action on the Tropical of Cancer, Chiayi County, Taiwan

• 2006

  Public Art Project at old railway road, Taitung, Taiwan

• 2006

  Art as Environment: a cultural action on the Tropical of Cancer, Chiayi County, Taiwan

• 2005

  Art as Environment: a cultural action on the Tropical of Cancer, Chiayi, Taiwan

• 2004

  Empress New Clothes, a community based art project, Taipei City on the Move, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2001

  Theater under the Skirts, a community based art project, Bai-Suei Performance Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2000

  Bed Sheets of Souls, a community based art project, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1985

  Meisterschueler of Guenther Uecker, National Art Academy Düsseldorf