UCCA Beijing

Ming Wong: Secret Timezones

2015.6.11
17:00-18:30

Conversation
Location:  UCCA Auditorium
Language:  English with Chinese subtitles

The Singaporean artist Ming Wong reveals his in-depth exploration of the theme “Time” through studying the modernized transformation of Cantonese opera and the history of sci-fi movies, and restaging the French New Wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. UCCA specially invited the artist Ming Wong and the curator Venus Lau to discuss the complexity of identity during globalization and the “spectral time” of both sci-fi movies and Cantonese opera.

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Speakers

Ming Wong(Artist)

Currently based in Berlin, Ming Wong received an MFA from Slade School of Art, University College London. His major solo exhibitions include "Me in Me" (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2013); "Ming Wong: Making Chinatown" (Redcat, Los Angeles, 2012). His major group exhibitions include "Fassbinder – NOW" (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2015) and "Islands Off the Shores of Asia" (Spring Studio / Para Site, Hong Kong, 2014). Ming Wong has participated in a number of international triennials and biennales, including "The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art" (Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2015); "Social Factory: The 10th Shanghai Biennale" (Power Station of Art, 2014); "12th Biennale de Lyon: Meanwhile… Suddenly, and Then" (2013); Liverpool Biennial (2012); Singapore Biennale (2011); Gwangju Art Biennale (2012); Biennale of Sydney (2010); Performa 11 (Museum of the Moving Image, New York, 2011). Ming Wong also has also presented "Life of Imitation" at the Singapore Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).

Venus Lau (Consulting curator, UCCA)

Venus Lau is a curator and writer based in Beijing. After working as an art writer and project curator, she works actively in various cultural spheres across greater China, pursuing multidisciplinary experimentation with potential and emergent cultural productions in the region, while initiating discourses between Chinese art and the cultural structures in other countries. She won the CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Award) Jury's Pick with her proposal actively rethinking on the strategies of institutional critique in China, while exploring the linkage between object-oriented ontology in art. She was the chairman of Society for Experimental Cultural Production, a non-profit organization focusing on new possibilities of cultural productions. Venus Lau is currently working as the consulting curator at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art.