Pin-Hsuan Tseng

1.55 Hydrofeminist Insights of Disposability: Marine Debris Art Encyclopaedia in Middle School (Paper)

Pin-Hsuan Tseng – The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Abstract:

As an art educator-artist-activist based in Taiwan, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, I have witnessed a distressing and worrisome increase in marine debris, an issue that mirrors our globalized and patriarchal world. Through hydrofeminist perspectives such as transcorporeality, fluidity, and leakage, I reflect on marine debris and explore artists who address issues of global waste in water through artistic approaches. Grounded in a hydrofeminist lens, I launched activist-oriented curricula in Taiwan, culminating in Marine Debris Art Encyclopaedia (2021). I advocate that hydrofeminist art classes can transform art classroom into areas of fecundity for consciousness-raising, encouraging provocative and open dialogue about disposal, disregard, and denial of marine debris to resist hegemonic system.