During the workshop, Yu-Cheng will first present the projects and research on the Parliament of Things in Taiwan. Later on, she and Harpo't Hart, IAS Artist-in-Residence, will share their experiences in bringing Latour's ideas into practice, answering the question 'How do these experiences give new insight in the theory?'. Finally, participants will have a chance to join a collective discussion on the aforementioned topics.

About Yu-Cheng Hung

Yu-Cheng is based in Taiwan and has been involved in several projects inspired by Latour's Parliament of Things. Over the years, she has gathered extensive multidisciplinary knowledge and has built a solid base of experience through a multiplicity of projects on multispecies democracies and their practices.

She has been invited by The Embassy of the North Sea to take part in the third Confluence of European Water Bodies, which is set to take place 21-24 September in The Netherlands. Born out of growing water challenges and demands for water democracy worldwide, the Confluence sprang from a collective pursuit of a deeper understanding of the 'Rights of 'Nature' in Europe. As a learning system for water diplomacy, new strategies for effectively representing water in Europe's cultural, legal and political realms are being explored, rehearsed and advocated.

Yu-Cheng Hung Biography

Yu-Cheng is a student in doctoral program of the Graduate Institute of Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts. She is currently the director of Kelio Arts. She has mainly engaged in cultural administration, arts and culture environment research, project planning, writing and curating, communication and interacting with the audience through diverse forms of creative industries and artistic performances. 

Recent major curatorial projects include We born from the River (Tainan 400, 2024), the Water Project of the 2022 Mattauw Triennial, the 2022 Taiwan Design Expo exhibition Deploy in Shoushan: Immersive Experience of Kaohsiung's Past through Sizihwan Bay Tunnel, the Kaohsiung Grand Kings series for the Kaohsiung Design Festival, Chen Chu-shui Solo Exhibition at the National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts (Weiwuying). 

The visit of Yu-Cheng Hung is subsidised by the Taiwanese National Culture and Arts Foundation.