Welcome to *JohnChat! *In this episode, we are delighted to welcome a special guest, Yu-Hsuan Chou (pen name: Ainsley Chou), who has recently graduated from the Graduate Institute of Language and Creative Writing at National Taipei University of Education.
For more information about her work, please visit:
https://mochifish407.wixsite.com/ainsley-art
https://artogo.co/zh-TW/exhibition/Ainsley
https://www.tba.tw/artists/946
Yu-Hsuan has previously been an important advocate for Adapted Physical Education (APE) in Taiwan. She contributed to the planning and promotion of nationwide touring microfilm exhibitions and photography competitions, dedicated to safeguarding every student’s equal right to participate in physical education.
In this episode, Yu-Hsuan shares her rich and multifaceted creative world. Beginning with her digital illustration series Backstage of the Landing Circus, she introduces listeners to a set of distinctive animal figures—such as the Hide-and-Seek Elephant, the Borrowed-Body Panda, and the Mona Crocodile. Through these imaginative images, she invites audiences to observe the world with pure curiosity, rather than rushing to judgment.
She has also collaborated with the New Big Wheel Association on the design of postcard projects, using warm visual narratives to challenge public stereotypes toward street vendors with disabilities, while exploring the aspirations of people with disabilities for independent living and a co-living community.
Looking ahead, Yu-Hsuan is preparing to pursue doctoral studies, with the goal of articulating a history of disability literature in Taiwan, tracing the evolving vitality of disability representations within literary contexts. She is also in the process of envisioning the establishment of a boundary-breaking creative collective, tentatively titled The Lost Society, which seeks to transcend temporal and spatial limitations and invite broader public participation in diverse forms of creative practice.
Curious to learn how Yu-Hsuan explores bodily fluidity through drawing and writing, and how she challenges entrenched social frameworks surrounding disability?
Don’t miss this compelling and thought-provoking conversation!
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