Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Back to Basics program / JUNE 2023
Kuan-Wei Wu
Germany / Taiwan
rub.academia.edu/KuanWeiWu
About
A freelance columnist, an art critic, and sometimes a
podcaster. Fond of writing novels, essays, and poetry.
breathing with nature
I am now conducting a transcultural philosophical discussion
of humans and nature. I am looking for resonance between
the existentialism of Continental Philosophy (especially
Kierkegaard’s “Authentic Existence” to Heidegger’s
“Dasein”) and the more-than-human relation discussed in
Eastern Philosophy (such as Yi-Jing: the Book of Changes, a
topological approach to understanding human as a temporal
and spatial being to Kitarō Nishida’s concept of “basho” in
Kyoto School). Furthermore, I am concerned that in some
ways of basic-to-basic creation and exploration, it is a key
to transcending Anthropocentrism lies in the aforementioned
transcultural dialogue. Additionally, the “multi-perspectivism”
(Kohn, 2013) in the Shamanic channeling with “the Parliament
of Things” (Latour, 2018) brings insight into human’s Bios/
Zoe (Braidotti, 2008).