吳秉真 Daniela Wu
Cultural Research · Interpretation · Cross-Cultural Practice
Exploring how knowledge and meaning travel across languages, places, and institutions.
I have been based in southern Taiwan for most of my life. A year spent studying in Bristol as a child first shaped my interest in language and art, later leading me to study Foreign Languages and Literature and Creative Industries Design.
My work has gradually moved across translation, storytelling, research, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Along the way, I interned in public service design research, supported communication projects for international NGOs, designed and facilitated workshops for brands and university courses, and worked as an interpreter in university settings and international artist residencies across southern Taiwan.
Today, my practice focuses on cultural research, interpretation, and cross-cultural collaboration. I am particularly interested in how locally grounded knowledge can be understood across different languages, disciplines, institutions, and publics—and how research can be translated into meaningful frameworks, narratives, and forms of exchange.
I don’t see translation simply as replacing one language with another, but as a way of bringing new perspectives into ongoing conversations. My work grows from close observation—of language, place, relationships, and the small details that often become the beginning of another story.
從翻譯、研究與設計出發,看見語言、敘事、地方與你我之間的關係
幾乎一輩子都在當南台灣水姑娘,12 歲那年跟去英國讀書的媽媽去了布里斯托,被分發進重視藝術的中學,開啟對語言、文化跟藝術的對話。後來就讀外國語文學系,並於設計研究所完成碩士學習。
一路以來,我的工作在翻譯、敘事、研究與跨領域協作之間移動。我曾參與公共服務設計研究實習,投入國際 NGO 的溝通專案,為品牌與大學課程設計及引導工作坊,也持續在大學、國際藝術村與跨文化交流場合從事口筆譯工作。
目前,我的實踐逐漸聚焦於文化研究、文化詮釋與跨文化協作。常常與自己的對話是:一個根植於特定地方的知識與經驗,如何在不同語言、專業領域、機構與公眾之間被理解;以及研究如何被轉譯成可被使用的框架、敘事與交流形式。
與其將翻譯視為語言的切換,我更傾向將它視為為對話加入新視角的方式。我也喜歡關注語言、地方、人與人之間的碎片,因為它們往往正是某一段故事開始的起點。