Jupong Lin

Background

About Jupong Lin

Who am I? I’m a Taiwan-born interdisciplinary artist-researcher, writer/poet and educator falling in love with forest beings just as they are burning in the fires stoked by colonialism. Who am I? I am becoming an interspecies justice warrior, storyteller, ceremonial origami artist praying for the water beings slipping through our fingers. Who am I? I live in Nonotuck/Nipmuc Land, Western Massachusetts in a town named after a genocidal invader of Turtle Island. I listen for ancestral hauntings. I make installations and community performances that blend paper-folding, poetics, and storyies to de/colonize hearts, minds, Land, Water, Earth. I taught in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College for almost 2 decades and I’m a PhD candidate in the Environmental Studies program at Antioch University New England. My burning questions: “how can the arts heal relationships harmed by colonization? What is the relationship between healing and justice?”