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Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth.
– I repeat the same sentence more than a thousand times and it becomes more than truth.
Documentary of my work “Wish You Were Here” (HD, 17’10’,’ 2014) is featured in the Performance Art Video platform.
Read more “Performance Art Video: “Wish You Were Here” (2014)”
這牆埋著一顆閃爍的碎片
你願伸手撫摸嗎？
a piece of glass on the wall.
(how) dare you touch it?
(how) can you feel it?
Read more “微不足道（謹向所有和平革命者致敬）
______ to pieces (homage to all peaceful revolutionaries)”
Read more “Wir sind das Volk!: The Unspoken Spell Cast on the Peaceful Revolutionaries”
Thanks for the generous support from the Goethe-Institut Hongkong, I presented a live performance at HALLE 14, Leipzig as part of the exhibition “The Ends of Freedom” on 7/11/2019, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall.
Read more “Wir sind das Volk! (homage to all peaceful revolutionaries) (performance)”
Invited by HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany, I participated in “The Ends of Freedom” exhibition which runs from 7/9 to 7/12/2019. I decided to use this as a platform for voices from Hong Kong in turmoil. A gigantic 10m x 5m “Lennon Wall” was created with 2,000 posters, plus some work of moving images I gathered from local artists and others on the Anti-Extradition protests in Hong Kong.
Read more “Wir sind das Volk! (homage to all peaceful revolutionaries) (exhibition)”
– a performance-lecture, 9/07/2019, grunt gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Read more “As the curtain fell… (homage to all peaceful revolutionaries)”
Acts of Commoning is a cultural exchange project curated by wen yau in 2019, in collaboration with Asiatopia Foundation. Three HK artists (Vangi Fong, wen yau, and Cally Yu) stay in a village in Nan, northern Thailand between 2 and 15 January 2019.
The 2-week residency was also joined by Thai artists Teetat Saewang, Natthakorn Surintham and Chumpon Apisuk, director of Asiatopia Foundation. During the 2-week residency, the artists hang out with the villagers in Baan Nam Krog Mai and learned how they shared resources and built their community in an intensive social network. The project offered the artists and the villagers a great opportunity to meet each other from different cultures and exchange ideas about our own practices in everyday life, contemporary art and social engagement.
Read more “Acts of Commoning: a HK-Thai Cultural Exchange Project”
Invited by the Performance Art Network CH (PANCH), I presented a performance-lecture titled Researching the Restiveness: This is NOT a Performance; This is NOT an Ethnography in the symposium Archives of the Ephemeral. Thinking, Practicing, Interconnecting – A Debate on the Accessibility of Performance Art in Switzerland.
My work was featured in Frank Vigneron’s book Hong Kong Soft Power: Art Practices in the Special Administrative Region, 2005-2014 published by The Chinese University Press, 2018:
正所謂「香港地少人多」。有見及此，魂游深入西九靚地王，收割大批寸金尺土，並舉行一場別開生面的「西九靚地王拍賣展銷會」，推出囤積居奇旺中帶靜的珍貴地皮，更有大量跳樓清貨的搶手靚盤。有樓有高潮，一地難求！拍賣展銷會只限一日，大家定必爭先恐後，出手投取心頭好！
Land for Hong Kong: Our Home, Our Say?!? In the light of ‘land shortage’ in Hong Kong, wen yau has acquired pieces of land from the West Kowloon site which be previewed in the ‘WK Realty Expo & Auction.’ Special properties collected from the site will also be available too. Everything Must Go! Don’t miss this rare chance to bid on a piece of the most precious land in Hong Kong!
Read more “一滴兩點 之 西九靚地王（謹向所有和平革命者致敬） A Drop and Two Dots (Homage to all peaceful revolutionaries)”
