M.C. Julie Yu

My name is M.C. Julie Yu (b. Taipei, Taiwan, 1989), a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist and freelance masseur. My artistic practice emerges from my experience as a POC/migrant worker in the wellness industry, focusing on how care becomes commodified and entangled with exhaustion, stigma, and questions of belonging. While rooted in the broader social context of labor, my work also attends to personal narratives and embodied memory. I often draw on folk traditions and mutual aid practices as foundations for artistic action, seeking ways to reflect on and disrupt the structures through which care is organized and instrumentalized.

My practice takes shape through diverse media, including writing, video, performance, and participatory structures such as exercises, games, rituals, and events. Informed by my theatre training, my methodology emphasizes layered forms of storytelling that question the dynamics of performativity and spectatorship. I also try to bring in forms of community participation—through interviews or collaborations—at earlier stages of my work, letting these encounters shape the process and allowing the social context to unfold as it develops.