Building Planetary Pedagogy of Love (2025) is the conversation between Youngsook Choi and Jessica Wan, reflecting Foreshadowing as anti-colonial infrastructure. It is published in the AWC Journal Issue 2 - Mycelium Against Empire. Youngsook asks: “Without commemorating the loss of life, how could we truly create a life-affirming system that provides an abundance of resources and clean air for all? Isn’t grief coming from the deep place of love and care for all living beings, the ultimate form of celebrating a life?”
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A Guide to Living Well with All Beings (2025) culminates from the collaborative research, Connecting Ecological Grief, between Á Space (Linh Le and Van Do), Gerimis (Wen Di Sia and Sharon Yap) and artist Youngsook Choi. The publication carefully navigates questions such as how to connect experiences of ecological loss and damage across post-ming fields in Northern England, intoxicated marine sphere in Central Vietnam, and ever-shrinking Malaysian Rainforest, what commemoration and healing practices for such losses might look like, how they already exist or are to be recovered in ancestral connection with land and water, and what it means to form transnational solidarity in times of climate crisis.
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Amalgama (2025) explores the submerged ecologies of the Venetian Lagoon through seaweeds. It is edited by Chiara Famengo, in collaboration with Barena Bianca and Tocia! as part of the fourth edition of Convivial Tables: Shifting Landscapes, commissioned by TBA21–Academy for Ocean Space. In the lagoon, seaweed is "a consequence, not a problem" to be reinterpreted as a resource, capable of nourishing crops, tables, and bodies. Amalgama offers how both native and non-native algal species can find meaningful roles within local ecologies, food systems, economies, and culture. The act of "amalgamating" becomes an opening gesture: integrating what might appear foreign to our traditions to inhabit ongoing transformations consciously.
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In Every Bite of the Emperor (since 2021) is part of Youngsook Choi’s long-term transnational ecological grief project that weaves neo/colonial impact on ecosystems across contexts. This publication culminates from the inaugural research on the Malaysian Rainforest and Semai communities’ relationship to the land and water, in collaboration with Wen Di Sia from Gerimis. It offers a distinctive take on the eco-grief as climate interrogation, alongside Orang Asli cosmology attached to their harmonious ways of dwelling in nature and speculative narratives of interspecies trauma impacted by mining, plantation and logging in the west peninsula
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