Description

In this short prologue for Season 2 of Regenerative Artivism, I introduce the guiding question for Season 2: what makes regenerative artivism last. Staying in the Greater China region, the season shifts from landscapes of repair to the infrastructures that make care and creativity durable over time.

Infrastructures here does not mean only highways and dams. It means enabling conditions: residencies that treat place as more than a backdrop, neighborhood apartments that become archives and mutual-aid stations, disability-led performance platforms where access becomes part of artistic form, museums that operate like small commons, community theater that turns listening into social ecology, and heritage networks that try to protect local life as development and tourism push in.

How to listen this season: three lenses

• Material infrastructure: where the work happens, who funds and maintains it, and what limits shape it
• Social infrastructure: trust, routines, accountability, conflict, burnout, and the labor of care
• Epistemic infrastructure: archives, publications, protocols, and teaching methods that keep minor histories from being erased

Season 2 episode guide

• Episode 1: Xiao Lihong, Bamboo Curtain Studio (near Taipei) — building a residency as a living ecological institution
• Episode 2: Chen Yun, Dinghaiqiao Mutual-Aid Society (Shanghai) — staying with neighbors amid demolition and redevelopment
• Episode 3: Ge Huichao (Beijing) — disability arts and access as creative grammar
• Episode 4: Liu Yang (Guangzhou) — the museum as neighborhood commons at the scale of a tiny room
• Episode 5: Debbie Tai, Zero Distance Cooperative (Macau) — playback theater as social repair and ecological care
• Episode 6: Zheng Dazhen (Quanzhou) — heritage as a living commons, and the risks of branding and displacement

Keywords
socially engaged art; ecological art; disability arts; mutual aid; urban commons; heritage and tourism; Greater China; Taiwan; Shanghai; Beijing; Guangzhou; Macau; Quanzhou

My academic website: http://csun.academia.edu/MeiqinWang