Minu Park

I am a scholar, writer, and performance thinker working at the intersection of performance studies and Indigenous studies, with a focus on diasporic Korean contexts. My current book project explores fermentation as a method of embodied knowledge-making, attending to food and rituals as forms of performance that exceed colonial academic boundaries. 

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I believe that art is not a luxury nor a professional domain, but a shared and sensorial way of being in the world. My work centers on moments of survival, intuition, and connection, such as cooking, grieving, remembering, and gathering, that generate knowledge outside of formal archives. 

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I organize The Witching Archive (website-in-progress), a collective of scholars, artists, and thinkers who are committed to what we call the knowledge academia couldn’t hold. We gather around speculative, embodied, and non-institutional ways of knowing that have been historically disqualified or rendered illegible by imperial and colonial structures of knowledge. Together, we create space for joy, magic, and inquiry that resists academic extractivism. 

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In tandem with this, I am committed to public-facing pedagogy. I currently teach at Seoul Open City University, where I engage with learners beyond the boundaries of the traditional university. In all that I do, I am guided by listening, enduring, sitting with, spending time, nonimmediate, and sensuous thought. They reflect a deep desire to make knowledge less exclusive, more porous, and alive in everyday life.