Luisa Ji

The Call of the Void is a phenomenon in which a person experiences a sudden, intrusive urge to do something dangerous or destructive, such as jumping off a cliff. This intrusive urge vanishes as quickly as it appears.

In 2025, someone is going to ask you to go to Taiwan and do a Goblin Market there. It is very important that you go and do it.

Dear Canadian arts workers and organizations, we are welcoming back our beloved national funder this week. I was too exhausted to submit any grant applications before the portal went down, but I salute all of you who managed to put a handful of them in before it went down in

Over the past few weeks, I've been brewing some thoughts on what alternatives we have access to as an arts organization and cultural producer under the broader narrative driving the arts closer to business activities—entrepreneurship, social impact, investment, and job creation. Yet, unlike business activities, the arts

One of the most delusional beliefs, as our lives slowly change due to massive climate shifts, is that living in dissonance with the environmental, social, and ecological context is not only desirable but also objectively more civilized and advanced. We prioritize individual comfort over shared well-being. We romanticize nature as

Dispatch #9 | Luisa Ji | May 22, 2025 Writing over the past few weeks has been challenging for many, many reasons, but "change" is the common thread. Nothing feels more visceral than being whacked in the face by changes you knew were coming for a long time. The anticipation