long~life: world making as sustainable practice, with Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊

Part of Mental Health for Artists 2026

Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 will share how world-making lives as a long-term, sustaining practice, one that allows ways of making to continuously grow, stretch, search and regenerate. 

Drawing from diasporic experience, ancestral storytelling, and Daoist and ecological thought, Song reflects on how resilience emerges through imagining alternative forms of kinship and rehearsing ways of being with others, human and more-than-human, towards more hopeful, shared futures.

About Rae-Yen

Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 shares how world-making lives as a long-term sustaining practice, one that allows ways of making to grow, stretch, search, and regenerate. Drawing from diasporic experience, ancestral storytelling, and Daoist and ecological thought, Song reflects on how resilience emerges through imagining alternative forms of kinship and rehearsing ways of being with others, human and more-than-human, towards more hopeful shared futures.
 

About Mental Health for Artists

Mental Health for Artists is Axis’ annual event season dedicated to the wellbeing and self-care of artists and creatives.

This year’s programme looks closely at how artists sustain themselves and their practices. Through conversations about tenderness, grief, regeneration, seasonality, and world-making, the season offers space to reflect on how we live, work, and care within contemporary art.

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