Yuyen Lin-Woywod is an artist whose practice primarily revolves around video media and installation works, focusing on themes of personal identity under political structures, queer theory, and cultural exchange. Yuyen’s research delves into how culinary practices become spaces where identity, memory, belonging, and difference are discussed across different cultures and countries. Starting with a Taiwanese queer perspective, the project looks at food not just as cultural heritage or a symbol of national identity, but as a living, breathing practice where identities are constantly being created, changed, and reshaped. Using artistic research, including video, installation, cooking, and workshops where people can join in, I explore how moving and being displaced changes how we think about taste, recipes, ingredients, and eating together. Things like dumplings, fermentation, and everyday cooking are both things we use and ideas we use to think about queer methods, what we know through our bodies, and memories from different cultures. By combining queer theory, food studies, and artistic research that involves hands-on work, the project questions how cooking can help us understand belonging in new ways, beyond just thinking about nationality, gender, and identity.
