Youngsook Choi
Lecturer
Youngsook Choi is an artist, researcher, and eco-grief advocate with a PhD in feminist/queer geography. Their socially engaged, site-specific practice explores aesthetics of solidarity and collective healing under the theme of “political spirituality,” positioning feeling and compassion as ways of knowing. Ecological grief is central, framing collective witnessing as a socio-political autopsy, while fostering eco-literacy as emergent pedagogy. Key projects include The Book of Loss(2022), commemorating seven lost glaciers; Slow Sips with Earth (2023), tea-blending as grief-literacy; and In Every Bite of the Emperor (since 2021), tracing neo-colonial extraction impacts. Youngsook founded the eco-grief council Foreshadowing and co-founded Decolonising Botany.
